We all know that builds are supposed to be fast. Otherwise, we just end up swordfighting. But sometimes the build just takes too long, either because you have an empty ~/.m2/repository, or the integration tests take a lot of time to run, or … . But you get the point.
For this very reason I ( as the saying goes, with a little help from my friends ) built a Maven extension which shows desktop notifications whenever a build is complete. It’s smart enough to notify you at the end of the reactor build for multi-module projects and it distinguishes between success and failure.
The notifier support Linux, OS X and Windows with specific notification senders, with a fallback on the AWT APIs whenever we do not find a preferred sender.
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- Mac OS X notification
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- Linux/KDE notification
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- Windows/Snarl notification
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- Linux/Unity notification
The 1.0 version is available for download in the Github downloads area. To install it, just drop the jar file under lib/ext in your Maven installation.
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