java - Maven plugin to restrict specific packages from being used

Question

I work in a team of around 40 developers, and I do not want any developer to use some specific API(java.sun.Base64 to be precise) to be used by any of the developers and rather make them use alternatives to the sun API as its proprietary.

Are there any plugins for maven, by which , specifying the restricted packages in the pom.xml , the build will break if any of those packages are being used anywhere in the code??

Or is there a more graceful way to do this??

Thanks

Answer 1

Here is plug-in I wrote for similar purposes.

Details can be seen here: https://github.com/yamanyar/restrict-maven-plugin/wiki

Restrict all access from com.ya* to java.util.regex.*

<restriction>com.ya* to java.util.regex.*</restriction>

Restrict all access from com.ya* (except com.yamanyar.core.) to java.util.regex.,

<restriction>com.ya*,!com.yamanyar.core.* to java.util.regex.*</restriction>

Restrict all access from com.ya* (except com.yamanyar.core.) and com.abc.Test to java.util.regex.

<restriction>com.ya*,com.abc.Test,!com.yamanyar.core.* to java.util.regex.*</restriction>

Restrict all access from com.ya* (except com.yamanyar.core.) and com.abc.Test to java.util.regex. ( except java.util.regex.Matcher) <restriction>com.ya*,com.abc.Test,!com.yamanyar.core.* to java.util.regex.*,!java.util.regex.Matcher</restriction>

Restrict all access from com.ya* ( except com.yamanyar.core.) and com.abc.Test to java.util.regex. ( except java.util.regex.Matcher); and also restrict com.ya* (except com.yamanyar.core.) to java.io.PrintStre.print*()

<restriction>com.ya*,com.abc.Test,!com.yamanyar.core.* to java.util.regex.*,!java.util.regex.Matcher</restriction>
<restriction>com.ya*,!com.yamanyar.core* to java.io.PrintStre*.print*()</restriction>