check-dependencies

Give you the date of all your dependency versions in a Maven project.

Description

This program read all pom files of your project and provide the date for every declared dependency. Thus, you know if your project is outdated.

Build

Go inside the project directory and execute mvn clean install.

That command will build a standalone jar.

Usage

Once you have built the jar file, you can use it with the command:

java -jar check-dependencies-1.1-jar-with-dependencies.jar [PROJECT_FOLDER] [OUTPUT_FILE]

where:

• PROJECT_FOLDER is your project directory in which the root pom file is.
• OUTPUT_FILE is the report file. This file uses the CSV format.

Example

You have a Maven project /home/foobar/myproject and you want the report as /home/foobar/myproject_report.csv, you execute the command:

java -jar check-dependencies-1.1-jar-with-dependencies.jar /home/foobar/myproject /home/foobar/myproject_report.csv

The result will be like:

dependency,version,date
org.jsoup:jsoup,1.13.1,2020-03-01
org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter,5.7.1,2021-02-04
org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-test,1.5.0,2021-04-26

Notes

• All pom files in a project are processed
• Work only with Maven
• Only dependencies in Maven Central are managed (you can upgrade that by coding ;) )