There are many ways to organise build systems for Java projects. The two
most predominant are probably still Ant and Maven. Debates between the
two tend to go around in circles with the balance now swinging towards
maven - since IDE support has got...
10 replies - 7019 views - 12/08/11 by Alex Staveley in Articles
I've just started working with AspectJ and despite its non-intuitive syntax, I'm pretty sold on its effectiveness at reducing development time and pre complexity by factoring out crosscutting concerns such as logging and security. However, the Internet is a...
0 replies - 2033 views - 08/24/11 by Alex Collins in News
Split into four parts, this book provides a detailed insight into build systems, and how to ensure your own build process is as efficient and scalable as possible. Part One works as an introduction...
0 replies - 7857 views - 06/30/11 by James Sugrue in Book Reviews
I would like to share my experience of moving from "our reinventing wheel" of Ant build scripts to Maven standard.
I reworked some apps which have following characteristics:
5 replies - 4053 views - 06/29/11 by Lofi Dewanto in Articles
*Notice: The opinions expressed on this blog entry are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the views of my employer.*
Now that the employer notice is out of the way I can actually start
talking about what I wish to talk about. At work we have a big...
1 replies - 3335 views - 05/26/11 by Adam Presley in News
I've just released Ant Commander 2.0.
Ant Commander is a file manager written in Java using Ant for file manipulation
and commons-vfs for file access.
And now it's free even at your work.
It support all vfs file system: local, samba, ftp, iso, zip, tar.gz,...
0 replies - 959 views - 05/19/11 by Anthony Goubard in Announcements
There was a regression in the 1.9.4 release of Gant that could not be ignored. The problem has been corrected, and a new release candidate checked by the people who found the regression (thanks due to Jeff Brown and the Grails folk). There is therefore a...
0 replies - 568 views - 05/03/11 by Russel Winder in Announcements
IvySvn 2.2.0 is now available for download from http://code.google.com/p/ivysvn/ IvySvn is a resolver for Ivy 2.2.0 (http://ant.apache.org/ivy) which uses Subversion for storing artifacts for use by Ivy's publish and retrieve operations. IvySvn is free,...
0 replies - 765 views - 12/21/10 by Adrian Woodhead in Announcements
JFrog is excited to announce the latest addition to their continuously growing traceable build ecosystem.
The new Bamboo - Artifactory plugin adds support for Apache Ivy and Maven3 builds in Bamboo.
0 replies - 2055 views - 08/30/10 by Noam Tenne in Announcements
Why bother with having standards for builds? Do we need generic conventions for compiling, packaging and versioning? No need. Should you roll your own? What do we need from a build tool? What functions does it provide? Should it be all encompassing big...
5 replies - 3441 views - 08/13/10 by Alex Collins in Articles
JFrog is excited to announce the availability of a new version of the Hudson Artifactory Plugin with new support for Ivy/Ant builds.
The Hudson Artifactory Plugin intercepts the build to capture information about published artifacts, resolved dependencies...
0 replies - 2223 views - 08/04/10 by Yoav Landman in Announcements
Ant is a popular tool in the Java world but it can also be harnessed by ColdFusion developers. It handles a lot of the tedious steps when manually deploying...
0 replies - 6013 views - 05/28/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos
JFrog and JetBrains are excited to announce the immediate availability of the new TeamCity - Artifactory Plugin.
Many development teams have adopted the Artifactory Binary Repository Manager with the TeamCity Continuous Integration Server to...
1 replies - 1592 views - 05/13/10 by Shlomi Ben-haim in Announcements
The JVM flavor of Ruby is rolling out version 1.5 today with integrations that transfer some of the build and config mojo from the Java platform to Ruby. Java developers will also find the JRuby language to be more friendly in this release. The new...
0 replies - 6686 views - 05/12/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
Continuous Integration - The Full Monty!
JFrog and Zenika will hold a build technology seminar on May 6th in Paris.
The event will be focused around the Continuous Integration process.
0 replies - 1551 views - 04/27/10 by Shlomi Ben-haim in Announcements