The Compiler Plugin is used to compile the sources of your project.

General data-binding functionality for Jackson: works on core streaming API

Implementation of the SLF4J API for Logback, a reliable, generic, fast and flexible logging framework.

The Apache Commons IO library contains utility classes, stream implementations, file filters, file comparators, endian transformation classes, and much more.

Provides a maven plugin that supports creating an OSGi bundle from the contents of the compilation classpath along with its resources and dependencies. Plus a zillion other features.

This plugin is used to release a project with Maven, saving a lot of repetitive, manual work.

Gson is a Java library that can be used to convert Java Objects into their JSON representation. It can also be used to convert a JSON string to an equivalent Java object.

A Maven plugin to create archives of your project's sources, classes, dependencies etc. from flexible assembly descriptors.

Provides utility goals to work with dependencies like copying, unpacking, analyzing, resolving and many more.

Rich and fluent assertions for testing in Java

The Resources Plugin handles the copying of project resources to the output directory. There are two different kinds of resources: main resources and test resources.