J-Fall 2021: Jaap Coomans – Everything you never wanted to know about Maven versions

Organisation: Please excuse us for the quality of the camera shots. Versioning your Maven artifact seems simple enough from the surface. Just apply some semver and maybe add in a SNAPSHOT, right? But then you’re faced with a critical issue that requires another level of versions. Or maybe you want a pre-release version, or a temporary version based on a branch name? To make that work, you need to understand how Maven deals with versions. I wondered about that myself, so I dove into the docs and into the code and figured it all out for you. In this session I will explain exactly how Maven parses versions and how it ranks them. Both the basic cases and the corner cases. You never wanted to know. But you need to know….

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