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Maven Pom Code Generators

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Alessandro Falappa edited this page Apr 11, 2017 · 8 revisions

The plugin contributes some code generators to those available when editing Maven pom.xml files.

Spring Boot Dependencies

Available while editing a Maven pom.xml file of a Spring Boot project:

Presents a dialog that allows to choose one of the Spring Boot opinionated dependencies:

The dialog offers functionalities similar to the third step of the Initializr Project wizard, that is allows to filter dependencies, shows item descriptions in a tooltip and opens documentation links.

Spring Boot version is detected from the pom or can be choosen in the dialog.

Inject Spring Boot Setup

Available while editing a Maven pom.xml file of a non Spring Boot project:

Performs the following modifications to the current pom.xml:

  • makes it a child of spring-boot-starter-parent (adds a parent declaration)
  • adds the spring-boot-maven-plugin to the plugins in the build section
  • adds a spring-boot-starter compile dependency
  • adds a spring-boot-starter-test test dependency

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