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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 runs by [...]

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, which it minimizes [...]

via Running Scala specs tests in Maven with JUnit 4 – mccv.

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
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The lovely Q4E-Eclipse plugin has been updated to version 0.5. New and noteworthy can be found
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Artifactory 1.2.5 was released.
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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]

Want some Mojo cooking tips? I just stumbled upon
this great [...]

Have you ever thought of using a CI Server? If not, what’s your excuse?Some of my favorites are:

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Artifactory is a piece of software that aims to replace m2proxy [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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
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