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Quite frequently, one has to write some development specific code. For example, at work, we have, when needed, an “application launcher” (named with the application name) and a dev web page, mounted under /dev. This page in turn allows to write shortcuts in the application work flow, in order to access specific page with an [...]

Thanks to Maven: The Definitive Guide, I was able to answer some questions I had about m2eclipse as well as learn more of it. When you put a plugin in the build part of the pom, how comes some are running on each source modification and others not ? The reason is simple : m2eclipse [...]

I’ve recently finished Maven: The Definitive Guide. It was the paper edition, since I muss confess I didn’t manage to go through the pdf edition. Still, I found the book rather interesting and quite well put. It’s not as enlightening and breath cutting as some others, but at least I was able to read it [...]

as we´re into bundling Wicket/JQuery-frontend components lately, we needed a way of automatically minimizing JavaScript on deployment. luckily, there is an excellent mojo out there : http://alchim.sourceforge.net/yuicompressor-maven-plugin the nice thing is, it does not only minify but also check and obfuscate, which turned out to be very handy! if you´re bundling javascript (or even css, [...]

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Maven 2.2 released: http://maven.apache.org/release-notes.html

As a happy Q4E User, i did not waste too much time lately on keeping an eye on the other maven-eclipse-integration projects. Now i stumbled upon this wiki page showing a very detailed feature comparison matrix between the usual suspects. One thing that stroke me is, that m2eclipse is proposed at eclipse.org as well as [...]

The lovely Q4E-Eclipse plugin has been updated to version 0.5. New and noteworthy can be found here . You can use this update site to install it. Particularly the new “Analyze Dependencies” View is awesome!

Artifactory 1.2.5 was released. Find changes here .I’m a big fan of this software, even though they used AJAX much more than convienient in the interface. If you’re using maven, you should really give it a spin. Here’s why: It lets you define WHAT to get from WHICH repository.Afaik, this is a unique feature. The [...]

Frequent readers know, that i use maven2 and eclipse and i am very happy with it. There is a an eclipse plugin for maven that generates classpaths from the dependency graph, as well as a plugin for eclipse, that makes adding a dependency to the pom very easy.One flaw existed for me though, that made [...]

This is not about issuetracking or this kind of application. I’m talking about //TODO or //FIXME Tags in ones code. Are you really aware of how many places in your code with these text still in place? If you’re developing feature-driven, you most certainly type some quick lines of code, even though, you know for [...]

Here’s a pit i fell into few days ago: I am a happy maven2 user. I use aggregator projects to manage the different parts of a project in different sub-projects, and provide a single-entry to building all of them. Imagine project X with modules x-services, x-webapp, x-ejb and x-ear with welldefined dependencies among each other. [...]

If you have heard about the winstone servlet container, you’ll probably be as impressed as i am. One of its most compelling feature is its little size and the possibility to bundle it with your .WAR-File in order to make the deployment-game trivial for your users. Now, thanks to this maven plugin, it becomes even [...]

Want some Mojo cooking tips? I just stumbled upon this great resource : Mojo Developer Cookbook This page contains code snippets demonstrating commonly used tasks when writing Maven plug-ins. There are no guarantees that these are the ‘right’ way to do things, but they have worked at least once for the author(s).

Have you ever thought of using a CI Server? If not, what’s your excuse?Some of my favorites are: Too heavyweight Too hard to configure and maintain Kind of black magic, isn’t it? I’m loosing control. No Resources I don’t have much to build at all. I’m doing it completely at my desktop. I don’t use [...]

Artifactory is a piece of software that aims to replace m2proxy as an intelligent proxy to maven repositories.It comes with a bundled Jetty instance and install-scripts, those guys definately put some effort in. Everything works quite flawless right out of the bag.The Web Interface is far more superior than m2proxy’s. The good news is you [...]

At last… Important news for those addicted to maven: finally the javaee-api has made it into an offical maven repository. Note that the mentioned repository has legacy layout, so remember to configure your maven/m2proxy/proximity or whatever accordingly. Here is the blog entry announcing the publishing of the API. You can grab it here . A [...]

Yesterday I was struggeling with Maven2 and JBoss . I had a few Seam-applications deployed on Glassfish, but due to the fact that jboss does not need SessionBeans (a.k.a. Seam-Actions in this case) to be defined in the Web-Deployment-Descriptor, i tried to deploy a fresh new Maven Project as a Prototype to JBoss.The trouble I [...]

Due to some jboss-Seam experiments, the local maven2 mirror has been updated to use the jboss repository as uplink as well. Feel free to use it under http://maven2.codesmell.org