XDepend Blog

I am thrilled to introduce you to a great addition to the XDepend package ; a maven plugin which can generate the right XDepend project file for your application from the POM file of your project.

This new plugin gives a much better user experience when analysing a mavenized project with XDepend. Previously you had to manually select in XDepend the right folders for your application jars and source files, as well as the right folders in your local Maven repository for the tier jars. The plugin takes care of all of this for you and gives you a nice xml file ready to use in XDepend.

The usage is quite straightforward. Once you have installed the plugin, the following command executed in your project directory will generate the XDepend project file:

Complete instructions on installation and different use cases (jsp precompilation, test cover inclusion) can be found here.