How to setup Maven for Spoofax development¶
Maven is a project management and build tool for software projects. Most components in Spoofax are built with Maven. This how-to will guide you to setup Maven for Spoofax 2 development.
Installation¶
Maven can be downloaded and installed from https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi. We require Maven 3.5.4 or newer (except Maven 3.6.1, 3.6.2, and 3.9.x). Maven 3.8.8 is recommended. On macOs, Maven can be easily installed with Homebrew by executing:
brew install maven
Confirm the installation was successful and the version is supported by running mvn --version.
Memory Allocation¶
By default, Maven does not assign a lot of memory to the JVM that it runs in, which may lead to out-of-memory exceptions during builds. To increase the allocated memory, execute before building:
export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xms512m -Xmx1024m -Xss16m"
Such an export is not permanent. To make it permanent, add that line to ~/.bashrc or equivalent for your OS/shell (create the file if it does not exist), which will execute it whenever a new shell is opened.
Proxy Settings¶
If you are behind a proxy, please put the proxy settings in your ~/.m2/settings.xml file. When you use the ./b script to build Spoofax, the MAVEN_OPTS environment variable is overridden to ensure the memory options above are supplied, so using command-line options in the environment variable for the proxy settings does not work.
Spoofax Maven Artifacts¶
Spoofax’s Maven artifacts are hosted on our artifact server at artifacts.metaborg.org. To use these artifacts, repositories have to be added to your Maven configuration. This configuration is required when building and developing Spoofax. Repositories can be added to your local Maven settings file (which is recommended), or to a project’s POM file.
Simple: Local Settings File¶
The recommended approach is to add repositories to your local Maven settings file, located at ~/.m2/settings.xml. If you have not created this file yet, or want to completely replace it, simply create it with the following content:
~/.m2/settings.xml
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>add-metaborg-release-repos</id>
<activation>
<activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
</activation>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>metaborg-release-repo</id>
<url>https://artifacts.metaborg.org/content/repositories/releases/</url>
<releases>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</releases>
<snapshots>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</snapshots>
</repository>
</repositories>
<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>metaborg-release-repo</id>
<url>https://artifacts.metaborg.org/content/repositories/releases/</url>
<releases>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</releases>
<snapshots>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</snapshots>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
</profile>
<profile>
<id>add-metaborg-snapshot-repos</id>
<activation>
<activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
</activation>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>metaborg-snapshot-repo</id>
<url>https://artifacts.metaborg.org/content/repositories/snapshots/</url>
<releases>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</releases>
<snapshots>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</snapshots>
</repository>
</repositories>
<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>metaborg-snapshot-repo</id>
<url>https://artifacts.metaborg.org/content/repositories/snapshots/</url>
<releases>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</releases>
<snapshots>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</snapshots>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
</profile>
</profiles>
<mirrors>
<mirror>
<id>metaborg-central-mirror</id>
<url>https://artifacts.metaborg.org/content/repositories/central/</url>
<mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
</mirror>
</mirrors>
</settings>
If you’ve already created a settings file before and want to add the repositories, just add the profile element (and the profiles element if it does not exist yet) to the settings file.
Advanced: Project POM File¶
Repositories can also be added directly to a project’s POM file, which only set the repositories for that particular project. This is not recommended, because it makes repositories harder to change by users, and duplicates the configuration. But it can be convenient, because it does not require an external settings file.
To do this, just add the the following content to the POM file:
~/.m2/settings.xml
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>metaborg-release-repo</id>
<url>https://artifacts.metaborg.org/content/repositories/releases/</url>
<releases>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</releases>
<snapshots>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</snapshots>
</repository>
<repository>
<id>metaborg-snapshot-repo</id>
<url>https://artifacts.metaborg.org/content/repositories/snapshots/</url>
<releases>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</releases>
<snapshots>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</snapshots>
</repository>
</repositories>
<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>metaborg-release-repo</id>
<url>https://artifacts.metaborg.org/content/repositories/releases/</url>
<releases>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</releases>
<snapshots>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</snapshots>
</pluginRepository>
<pluginRepository>
<id>metaborg-snapshot-repo</id>
<url>https://artifacts.metaborg.org/content/repositories/snapshots/</url>
<releases>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</releases>
<snapshots>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</snapshots>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
Maven Central Repository Mirror¶
Artifacts of most open source projects are hosted in the Maven Central Repository. If you are building any project using Maven, many artifacts will be downloaded from that server. While it is a fast server, it can still take a while to download all required artifacts for big projects.
If you are on the TU Delft network, you can use our local mirror of Maven Central to speed things up. Using the mirroring requires a change in your local ~/.m2/settings.xml file. If this file does not exist, create it with the following content:
~/.m2/settings.xml
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
<mirrors>
<mirror>
<id>metaborg-central-mirror</id>
<url>https://artifacts.metaborg.org/content/repositories/central/</url>
<mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
</mirror>
</mirrors>
</settings>
If you’ve already created a settings file before and want to add the mirror configuration, just add the mirror element (and the mirrors element if it does not exist yet) to the settings file.
Created: October 17, 2024