Tag Archives: maven

maven in anger

Posted on December 14, 2008 by Dominic Mitchell

I’ve ranted about Maven before. As it happens, I still stand by much of what I said. But, I’ve come to realise how superficial these criticisms are. Earlier this year, one of the libraries that I have a hand in … Continue reading →

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NetBeans 6.5

Posted on November 20, 2008 by Dominic Mitchell

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. … Continue reading →

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Embedding the maven version number

Posted on October 1, 2008 by Dominic Mitchell

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); … Continue reading →

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AntUnit inside Maven

Posted on September 15, 2008 by Dominic Mitchell

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 … Continue reading →

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m2eclipse tip

Posted on April 9, 2008 by Dominic Mitchell

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 … Continue reading →

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q4e

Posted on March 1, 2008 by Dominic Mitchell

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 … Continue reading →

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Trusting your tools

Posted on January 27, 2008 by Dominic Mitchell

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) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:487) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1093) at org.apache.cocoon.servlet.multipart.MultipartFilter.doFilter(MultipartFilter.java:119) at org.apache.cocoon.tools.rcl.wrapper.servlet.ReloadingServletFilter.doFilter(ReloadingServletFilter.java:50) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1084) at org.apache.cocoon.servlet.DebugFilter.doFilter(DebugFilter.java:169) at org.apache.cocoon.tools.rcl.wrapper.servlet.ReloadingServletFilter.doFilter(ReloadingServletFilter.java:50) … Continue reading →

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A Year in Cocoon

Posted on January 21, 2008 by Dominic Mitchell

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 … Continue reading →

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Maven

Posted on April 17, 2007 by Dominic Mitchell

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 … Continue reading →

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