Fading Coder

Many developers notice that after modifying the pom.xml in an IntelliJ IDEA Maven project, the configured JDK version silently drops back to a lower default. Even though the IDE’s Settings and Project Structure dialogs show the correct version, Maven’s re-import wipes out those manual overrides. Thi...

When a project depends on JARs that are not available in a remote repository, you can bring them into a Maven build in two primary ways. The first publishes the artifact into your local repository and treats it like a normal dependency. The second wires the JAR directly via a system-scoped dependenc...