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XML static code analysis

Unique rules to find Bugs and Code Smells in your XML code

pom elements should be in the recommended order

consistency - conventional

maintainability

Code Smell

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The POM Code Convention is the Maven project’s internal recommendation for POM element ordering. It calls for listing modifiers in the following order:

<modelVersion/>
<parent/>
<groupId/>
<artifactId/>
<version/>
<packaging/>
<name/>
<description/>
<url/>
<inceptionYear/>
<organization/>
<licenses/>
<developers/>
<contributors/>
<mailingLists/>
<prerequisites/>
<modules/>
<scm/>
<issueManagement/>
<ciManagement/>
<distributionManagement/>
<properties/>
<dependencyManagement/>
<dependencies/>
<repositories/>
<pluginRepositories/>
<build/>
<reporting/>
<profiles/>

Not following this convention has no technical impact, but will reduce the pom’s readability because most developers are used to the standard order.

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