How we have the development specific code safely out of the way

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 [...]

m2eclipse tips

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 [...]

Book review : Maven: The Definitive Guide

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 [...]

Yui Compressor mojo

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 [...]

Running Scala specs tests in Maven with JUnit 4 – mccv

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

Uh, that was quick….

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

Maven Eclipse Integration

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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Q4E

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

Artifactory 1.2.5 was released.
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Q4E very promising

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 [...]

Being aware of TODOs

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Maven aggregators

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 [...]

War on Winstone

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 [...]

Extending Maven2

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

Just working for you

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

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Pimp my m2proxy

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

JavaEE APIs accessible in Maven Repository

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 [...]

Mavens EARs and Seam

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 [...]

Proxy updated

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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