maven-strict-pom - Introduction

Overview

This project provides an XML schema (XSD) to validate POMs to enforce a strict order of the elements.

Please refer to the outline for an overview over the order of elements enforced by this schema.

XML Catalog

Add http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd as key for the schema location to validate POM files within your IDE (e.g. Eclipse). No changes are required to the pom.xml.

Maven-SortPom-Plugin

You may want this configuration with the Maven-SortPom-Plugin like this:

<plugin>
  <groupId>com.google.code.sortpom</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-sortpom-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.0.0</version>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>de.smartics.config</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-strict-pom</artifactId>
      <version>1.1.3</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
  <configuration>
    <expandEmptyElements>false</expandEmptyElements>
    <keepBlankLines>true</keepBlankLines>
    <createBackupFile>true</createBackupFile>
    <sortOrderFile>strict-pom.xml</sortOrderFile>
  </configuration>
</plugin>