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Focused Extreme Feedback With CI Information Radiators - a Case Study

Build Server Information radiators are an excellent, easy-to-implement way of getting people to pay attention to broken builds. But it pays to tailor them to...

0 replies - 3283 views - 02/24/10 by John Ferguson Smart in Articles

Electric Cloud's New Tools Avoid Unnecessary Builds

Electric Cloud has recently developed several unique capabilities for its software production suite, and now the company has built these technologies into the...

0 replies - 6901 views - 02/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Ant 1.8 Scanning Leaves 1.7.1 in the Dust

The classic Java build tool, Apache Ant, just reached its next GA version update.  Ant 1.8 has improved directory scanning performance and better symbolic...

1 replies - 10961 views - 02/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Maven: The Complete Reference

This review is about Sonatype’s Maven: The complete reference by Tim O’Brien, John Casey, Brian Fox, Jason Van Zyl, Eric Redmond and Larry...

3 replies - 7644 views - 02/04/10 by Nicolas Frankel in Articles

Next Generation Maven Development Stack @ JFokus

For my talk today at JFokus today I’ve taken the liberty of starting some notes for folks interested in attending. There’s a lot to cover and so I...

0 replies - 6121 views - 01/27/10 by Jason Van in Articles

From Plexus to Guice: Why Guice?

When we started the Maven project, dependency injection was still developing. Spring was just starting out and the Avalon project at Apache was really the...

0 replies - 5448 views - 01/20/10 by Jason Van in Articles

Maven Mythbusters #2 - Maven Requires an Internet Connection to Delete a Directory

Maven seems to be one of those topics that brings out passion in many developers. In this series of articles, I want to take a look at some of the common...

3 replies - 3779 views - 01/12/10 by John Ferguson Smart in Articles

Maven Mythbusters - Maven Automatically Updates for Every Build

Maven seems to be one of those topics that brings out passion in many developers. Apparently, some developers love it, and find it a highly valuable and...

7 replies - 5004 views - 01/07/10 by John Ferguson Smart in Articles

A Tale of Two Repository Managers: Nexus and Artifactory Compared and Contrasted

There are several Maven repository managers on the market, but the two most prominent and most powerful are without doubt Nexus and Artifactory. Both these...

4 replies - 8521 views - 01/04/10 by John Ferguson Smart in Articles

Automated Deployment With Cargo and Maven - a Short Primer

Cargo is a versatile library that lets you manage, and deploy applications to, a variety of application servers. In this article, we look at how to...

0 replies - 11777 views - 12/29/09 by John Ferguson Smart in Articles

Hudson With Security Manager Enabled on GlassFish

GlassFish V3 is out and nothing better to celebrate the newborn than publishing some hints about the best Java EE container ever. As you will notice when you...

3 replies - 4943 views - 12/14/09 by Felipe Gaúcho in Articles

Running Selenium on an Alternate Port; Starting the Server from Ant

I found myself needing to run Selenium tests from Java against a Selenium server running on a port other than the default 4444. Every example on the web...

0 replies - 10868 views - 12/09/09 by Jared Richardson in Tips and Tricks

Small-scale Integration Testing With JUnit, Maven and VMWare: Part 1

For Deployit, XebiaLabs' automated deployment product for Java EE applications, we are always building and modifying integrations with middleware...

0 replies - 7284 views - 12/08/09 by Vincent Partington in Articles

Writing Your pom Files in Groovy - a Sneek Preview of Maven 3's Polyglot Features

Maven 3 is promising to be the most significant upgrade since the release of Maven 2. While maintaining backward compatibility with existing Maven 2...

8 replies - 5075 views - 10/22/09 by John Ferguson Smart in Articles

Java EE Continuous Integration Powered by Maven & Glassfish

Can you compile, deploy and test your Java EE projects with just 1 line of command? Check it out. I have no time for documentations lately, but I prefer to...

2 replies - 5392 views - 10/10/09 by Felipe Gaúcho in Articles