Maven2 build defaults

Useful maven2 build settings for use in the project pom.xml

If you add these settings to the parent pom.xml, all child projects will automatically use UTF-8 for resource filtering, the java code compliance level will be set to Java 1.5 and the eclipse plugin will automatically download and link sources and javadocs for dependencies.

<project>
    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.5</source>
                    <target>1.5</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.0.1</version>
                <configuration>
                    <locales>en,nl</locales>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>

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