How to use Apache maven buildnumber plugin

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How to use Apache maven buildnumber plugin

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Here we are going to see the usage of Build Number Maven Plugin. This plugin could be used to generated unique build numbers for the artifacts generated using maven. I have generated a sample project using maven with groupId, artificatId, version and packaging information.

Step1: Generate the sample quickstart project.

Generate maven project 
mvn archetype:generate

Here are the sample project coordinates that i used

groupId - com.maven.apache
artifactId - buildnumbertest
version - 1.0
packaging - jar
The default maven project would contain the below pom.xml file

Step2: Install the project to local repository with below command

Install maven project to local repository 
mvn install

This will generate the artifact with groupId and version number as below

buildnumtest-1.0

Step3: Edit pom.xml to generate unique buildnumbers for this maven project appending date and time

Step4: Run mvn install now to generate the artifact with below format name

Run maven install with build number plugin 
buildnumtest-1.0-r2014-09-30-081925
buildnumtest-1.0-r2014-09-30-082052

This plugin would be very useful when to differentiate between multiple 

builds for a particular version of the project.

Hope you enjoyed reading this article. Thank you.