This post describes how to prepare a release for Maven project with a set of Maven Plugins. Background The release preparation phase is built of following common steps: Build the artifact to verify that the build is successful. Run the unit tests of the artifact. Update the version of the artifact to the release …

During the inspection of several sucessful Maven 3 build output, following SaxException catchs my eye: 1[INFO] Parsing file:/home/skosmalla/.m2/repository/repository.xml 2[Fatal Error] repository.xml:3:1: Premature end of file. 3org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Premature end of file. 4at …