Maven Parent POM

Parent POMs¶

If you want to use Maven to build your Kotlin applications, you can set up your POM to inherit from the Hexagon's parent POM.

This POM configures Kotlin and Hexagon for you. There are two different flavors available (based on the directory schema you want to use):

The standard layout POM
The lean layout POM

Standard Parent POM¶

This layout is the well-known standard one, it has more directories but its widely used. These are the features it provides:

Set up the Kotlin plugin
Use JUnit 5 and Kotlin Test for testing
Configure Jacoco coverage report

<parent>
  <groupId>com.hexagonkt</groupId>
  <artifactId>kotlin_pom</artifactId>
  <version>$hexagonVersion</version>
</parent>

Lean Parent POM¶

This directory layout has less nested directories, and it is more compact. The main downside of using this approach is that it differs of the standard one.

Inherits from the Standard Parent POM (it provides all its features)
Change the source directories to be main and test instead src/{main,test}/kotlin
Store resources together with source files instead of src/<sourceSet>/resources

<parent>
  <groupId>com.hexagonkt</groupId>
  <artifactId>kotlin_lean_pom</artifactId>
  <version>$hexagonVersion</version>
</parent>