Tag Archives: maven

m2eclipse tip

I was wondering why one of my computers seemed to have an older version of m2eclipse installed. It turns out that they moved the update site from m2eclipse.codehaus.org/update/ to m2eclipse.sonatype.org/update/. Doh. It’d be nice if they mentioned that one the front page.

q4e

I hate maven. The UI sucks so badly, it’s incredibly painful to use. Anything that can take the edge off this has to be a good thing. In the past, I’ve experimented with m2eclipse, but to be quite frank, it’s not much improvement over the command line. And the tools are [...]

Trusting your tools

After Grzegorz’s piping up, I’m giving cocoon 2.2 another try. Here are some selected errors.

javax.servlet.ServletException: No block for /favicon.ico
at org.apache.cocoon.servletservice.DispatcherServlet.service(DispatcherServlet.java:84)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820)
at org.apache.cocoon.tools.rcl.wrapper.servlet.ReloadingServlet.service(ReloadingServlet.java:89)
[...]

A Year in Cocoon

The other large part of the project at $WORK I’ve just finished was Cocoon. Cocoon is a Java web framework. It’s got some really neat ideas in it, and it’s main purpose in life is transforming XML. It is (or should be) a perfect match for XML databases.
I described Cocoon about a [...]

Maven

After being a little bit ranty about cocoon yesterday, I thought I’d better take a closer look at Cocoon 2.2. But that means getting to know Maven first…
The premise of Maven is simple. Instead of having a scriptable build system (as with ant), the build system knows how to do things. And [...]