maven best practice

[Lee Breisacher]

I am a newbie to Jenkins. I would like to know if there is a single best-practice for ordinary maven project builds. From the reading I've done so far, I see three different approaches:

1. The tutorial here: https://jenkins.io/doc/tutorials/build-a-java-app-with-maven/  uses Docker-in-Docker to run a maven docker image to execute mvn. Seems rather odd to me.

2. This plugin: https://plugins.jenkins.io/pipeline-maven/

3. This plugin: https://plugins.jenkins.io/maven-plugin/

What is recommended these days?

Thanks,

Lee

[James Nord]

I would steer clear of option 3 (and I wrote the maven-releasr-plugin-plugin)

I use option 2 daily.
whatever you choose manage your maven settings with config-file-provider plugin and credentials.

option 2 is quicker to setup than a quick pipeline and then adding all the reporters you want (junit, checkstyle,spotbugs etc) but that would be the other way too.