Maven: The Definitive Guide

Customize Project Information

Before we start writing code, let’s customize the project information a bit. We want to add some information about the project’s license, the organization, and a few of the developers associated with the project. This is all standard information you would expect to see in most projects. Example 4-2 shows the XML that supplies the organizational information, the licensing information, and the developer information.

Example 4-2. Adding organizational, legal, and developer information to the pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" 
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 
                      http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
...

  <name>simple-weather</name>
  <url>http://www.sonatype.com</url>

  <licenses>
    <license>
      <name>Apache 2</name>
      <url>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt</url>
      <distribution>repo</distribution>
      <comments>A business-friendly OSS license</comments>
    </license>
  </licenses>

  <organization>
    <name>Sonatype</name>
    <url>http://www.sonatype.com</url>
  </organization>

  <developers>
    <developer>
      <id>jason</id>
      <name>Jason Van Zyl</name>
      <email>[e-mail]</email>
      <url>http://www.sonatype.com</url>
      <organization>Sonatype</organization>
      <organizationUrl>http://www.sonatype.com</organizationUrl>
      <roles>
        <role>developer</role>
      </roles>
      <timezone>-6</timezone>
    </developer>
  </developers>
...
</project>

The ellipses in this example are shorthand for an abbreviated listing. Whenever you see a pom.xml with “...” directly after the project element’s start tag and directly before the end tag, it indicates that we are not showing the entire pom.xml file. In this case, the licenses, organization, and developers elements are all added before the dependencies element.