Maven build in colours

Did you ever wonder, how you can make your maven build display colours?
In this quick post I will show you what you need to do to show colours in your maven build.

1. Navigate to wherever you have installed maven and go into the lib folder ~/apache-maven-3.3.1/lib
   
2. Delete slf4j-simple-1.7.5.jar
   
3. Find on the internet the following jars and add them to the lib folder
   log4j-api-2.2.jar
   log4j-core-2.2.jar
   log4j-slf4j-impl-2.2.jar
   slf4j-ext-1.7.5.jar
   
4. Get out of the lib folder and navigate into the conf folder once in there create a file called log4j2.xml and add the following content:
   
   
   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

   <Configuration>

     <Properties>

       <Property name="maven.logging.root.level">INFO</Property>

     </Properties>

     <Appenders>

       <Console name="console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">

         <PatternLayout pattern="%highlight{[%p] %msg%n%throwable}" />

       </Console>

     </Appenders>

     <Loggers>

       <Root level="${sys:maven.logging.root.level}">

         <Appender-ref ref="console"/>

       </Root>

     </Loggers>

   </Configuration>

    
5. Go to the terminal and try building a maven project