Today NetBeans 6.5 got released. Congratulations, guys! I’m primarily an Eclipse user1, but I keep hearing about NetBeans through the Java Posse and heck, I even subscribe to the NetBeans podcast to try and keep an eye on what’s up. Every time a new release comes out, I give it a whirl.
So [...]
If you build a jar file with maven, it helpfully embeds a properties file so that you can pull out information about the build environment. You just need some code like this.
String path = "/META-INF/maven/groupId/artifactId/pom.properties"
InputStream stream = getClass().getResourceAsStream(path);
Properties props = new Properties();
props.load(stream);
System.out.println("my version is" [...]
I’m in the middle of converting jslint4java to use maven as its build system (yes, really). Part of this is ensuring that the antunit tests I wrote continue to work. Maven has the antrun plugin, but it’s not 100% obvious how to use an antlib inside it.
Normally, to run an antlib extension as [...]
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.
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 [...]
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)
[...]
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 [...]
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 [...]