[MARCHETYPES-70] Quickstart support for junit 5 and java 9+

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.3, 1.4
• Fix Version/s: 1.5
• Component/s: Maven Quickstart Archetype
• Docs Text: Quickstart supports java 9+ and junit 5. To specify the java version and junit version set the properties javaCompilerVersion (default = 1.7) and junitVersion (default = 4.13.1) respectively.
• Assignee: Enrico Olivelli
• Reporter: Jurrian Fahner
• Created: 01/Nov/20 10:50
• Updated: 18/Aug/24 17:23
• Resolved: 30/Dec/20 21:35

Description

Quickstart archetype is outdated due to the support for java versions below 9 and junit 4.

The changes needs to be made backwards compatible in order to avoid breaking changes for legacy projects.

For the support of java 9+ the java version tag must change from:

<!-- example for java 8 and below -->
 <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
<maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>

to:

<!-- example with java 11 -->
<maven.compiler.release>11</maven.compiler.release>

For junit 5 support it is needed to add junit-jupiter-api and the vintage plugin, to add support for large older projects (with old junit tests in it).

Example for dependencies for junit 5 it will look like:

    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit-jupiter-api</artifactId>
      <version>5.2.2</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit-jupiter-engine</artifactId>
      <version>5.2.2</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>

 

Issue Links

• duplicates: MARCHETYPES-61 Update quickstart to use JUnit 5 by default
• is related to: MARCHETYPES-82 generate maven.compiler.release property as comment
• relates to: MARCHETYPES-86 using m-compiler-p 3.13.0, always generate maven.compiler.release property instead of old source/target
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5