POM demysterified POM lets you to tell maven the “what” and maven knows the “how”. Put it in another way, POM gives you an abstraction layer over your build process to make things more explicit, more standard and easier to follow. There are several key elements in POM that I want to talk about. Below [...]

Externalize your configuration from war For settings that are going to change across different environments like database connection, you should externalize them from your war file. So, you can have your war be environment agnositic. Then, you can promote via simply copying your war across different environments. In Spring, there are several ways to achieve [...]