Jeroen Reijn 9/5/2013

The mystery of the Bootstrap application

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This technical article details a Java developer's troubleshooting process for unwanted applications (Bootstrap and ForkedBooter) appearing in the OS X dock during Apache Maven builds. It identifies the maven-surefire-plugin and cargo-maven2-plugin (for Tomcat) as causes and provides specific solutions, primarily involving configuring Java to run in headless mode via MAVEN_OPTS or Tomcat configuration files.

The mystery of the Bootstrap application

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