Posts Tagged 'maven'

Future review of Joomla!® 1.5 Development Cookbook and Build and Manage Applications with Maven, Continuum, and Archiva

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Published on Friday, 16 October 2009 00:00

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Packt publishing has offered me to make a review of two of their new books (Thanks to them). I should receive free samples for review beginning of next week. Since it is two of my favorite subjects (Maven and Joomla!® ), I think it may also interest you. A review will follow in some days.

Build and Manage Applications with Maven, Continuum, and Archiva

• Install Apache Maven and follow the sample application to build up your project as quickly as possible
• Test your applications to ensure maximum stability using Maven's inbuilt tools
• Use Maven's report and checking tools to ensure the health of your projects
• Explore Apache Continuum which will help you to ensure the health of your source code
• Improve your team builds with the powerful combination of Maven, Archiva and Continuum
• Install and run the repository manager Apache Archiva

 

Joomla!® 1.5 Development Cookbook 

• Make your extensions extensible, add extensions points to allow third parties to customize your extension
• Create international extensions by enabling multilingual capabilities
• Build more than just HTML pages - create PDF documents, Atom Feeds, and more!
• Improve the user experience by adding Ajax
• Create Atom and RSS feeds to keep users up-to-date
• Utilize the power of Subversion to maintain your source code
• Execute database queries and handle returned data in order to access and modify your data
• Dynamically extend your database tables using JParameter to make your extensions more flexible
• Keep your gremlins at bay by handling errors the Joomla! way
• Work with the file system, interrogate existing files and folders and store data in the file system
• Take control of your workflows by using www.JoomlaCode.org to manage your Joomla! projects

Easily Compress Web Application Resources with EhCache

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Category: Apache Maven

Published on Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:58

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Resources such as JavaScript and CSS files can be compressed before being sent to the browser, improving network efficiencies and application load time in certain case. If you are not using Apache with mod_deflate or nginx in front of your web application, you may need to implement resources compression yourself….

Wait! don’t start writing your own filter to compress files like CSS, html, txt, javascript it is way more difficult than you think to properly handle http response headers and do proper handling of mime type and caching. In one sentence don’t start reinventing the wheel: use ehcache for example.

Ehcache is an open source, standards-based cache used to boost performance, offload the database and simplify scalability. Ehcache is robust, proven and full-featured and this has made it the most widely-used Java-based cache. It can scale from in-process with one or more nodes through to a mixed in-process/out-of-process configuration with terabyte-sized caches. For applications needing a coherent distributed cache, Ehcache uses the open source Terracotta Sever Array.

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Tomcat 7 and Apache Maven

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Published on Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:29

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Here is 3 different way to control the lifetime a local Tomcat 7 container using Apache Maven. A typical scenario would be to start a servlet container prior to running integration tests (Selenium, SAHI or using any other framework you can think of )

With the following examples, you will be able to start an instance of Tomcat 7 running your web application in the pre-integration-test phase and stop the instance in the post-integration-test phase. You can also decide to use an embedded container like Jetty instead.

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Apache Maven copy local file to a remote server server using SSH

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Published on Thursday, 12 April 2012 20:20

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I will show you in an Apache Maven configuration file how to copy files to server each time the package phase is executed.

Solution with Ant SCP task

This snippet of code is a ready to use code that make use of Apache Ant task scp, Just put this snippet of code in your Maven module where the assembly is executed or anywhere else to push all tar.gz files to a server just run a maven mvn package, you can add as many ant task and push to many server the same file during the reactor build.

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.7</version>
<executions>
<execution>
    <id>server-copy</id>
    <goals>
        <goal>run</goal>
    </goals>
    <phase>package</phase>
    <configuration>
        <target>
            <echo message="Push to server/home/"/>
            <scp trust="yes"
                todir="user:password@server:/home/">
                <fileset dir="${basedir}/target">
                    <include name="**/*.tar.gz"/>
                </fileset>
            </scp>
        </target>
    </configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.ant</groupId>
    <artifactId>ant-jsch</artifactId>
    <version>1.8.2</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>

Solution with maven-deploy-plugin

The maven-deploy-plugin allows you to configure the deploy phase to deploy to a server using scp. There is a page in the documentation that describes how it can be done.

Deploy maven artifact using Maven Wagon SCP

Another alternative would be to use Maven Wagon SCP like described in this post for example

Tux Droid Plugin for Jet Brains TeamCity 4.0

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Category: JAVA tools

Published on Sunday, 15 March 2009 00:00

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Tux Droid is a Linux wireless Tux mascot (210mm x 180mm x 140mm - with lowered wings) with a programmable interface, allowing it to announce events by its gestures and by ALSA driven sound. The events are detected by specific gadgets, which are handled by the Tux Gadget Manager. The Tux Droid supports Linux kernel 2.4 or later and needs a 800 MHz CPU and 128 MB RAM. It communicates by infrared to the USB port (1.1 or 2.0) and for media detection it needs an internet connection. The mascot is driven by Atmel AVR RISC microcontrollers. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux_Droid

TeamCity is a Java-based build management and continuous integration server from JetBrains, creators of IntelliJ IDEA and ReSharper.

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Apache M2Eclipse: Get rid of Duplicate resources when opening resources and types

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Published on Friday, 06 April 2012 13:25

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In this small post, I’ll show you how to remove duplicated resources in the Open Resource view of Eclipse

Eclipse – M2Eclipse – Subversive

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Tux Droid Plugin for Atlassian Bamboo continuous integration server

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Published on Thursday, 19 March 2009 00:00

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Tux Droid is a Linux wireless Tux mascot (210mm x 180mm x 140mm - with lowered wings) with a programmable interface, allowing it to announce events by its gestures and by ALSA driven sound. The events are detected by specific gadgets, which are handled by the Tux Gadget Manager. The Tux Droid supports Linux kernel 2.4 or later and needs a 800 MHz CPU and 128 MB RAM. It communicates by infrared to the USB port (1.1 or 2.0) and for media detection it needs an internet connection. The mascot is driven by Atmel AVR RISC microcontrollers. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux_Droid

Bamboo is a continuous integration server from Atlassian Software Systems, the makers of JIRA, Confluence and Crowd. Bamboo is free for philanthropic and open-source projects. Academic and commercial organizations are charged based on type of license. Some other features of Bamboo are its unlimited build plans and unlimited projects that provide instant feedback and a platform to collaborate with other team members for build projects, and its ability to run distributed builds. It integrates with existing development tools, and it can be integrated with popular source code systems.

With this plugin

You can notify your Tux Droid with your TeamCity build results!

After login you can find the new notificator Tux Droid in your notification settings. You need your Tux Droid server IP and port  to connect your Tux to Bamboo. After you have saved the parameters you can configure your individual notification settings for just all projects/specific projects/build failures/...

Each registered User can customize Tux Droid messages or choose different Attitunes.

Some useful resource how to develop a Bamboo plugin with Maven 2

• http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEVNET/How+to+Build+an+Atlassian+Plugin
• http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEVNET/Releasing+your+plugin
• http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BAMEXT/Home

Plugin will appear soon at

http://tuxdroid-bamboo.waltercedric.com/

Note you may be interested by the TeamCity continuous integration server version at http://tuxdroid.waltercedric.com/

My 2 first Joomla! component in continuous build

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Category: Continuous Build

Published on Wednesday, 22 April 2009 00:00

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Status/Done

• Build with Maven For PHP in TeamCity
• SVN repository at http://joomlacode.org/svn/com_securityi1/trunk/ and http://joomlacode.org/svn/com_akobookplus/trunk/
• Totally independent of continuous build server (Thanks to MAVEN), so Hudson, Bamboo and Cruise Control are SUPPORTED.

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The Build Tool Report: Turnaround Times using Ant, Maven, Eclipse, IntelliJ, and NetBeans

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Published on Wednesday, 28 October 2009 00:00

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Even if the sample is quite small (600 responses), it still interesting going through these compiled data

Some time ago we ran a survey asking a few questions about the build process, specifically the tools that are used to do incremental builds and how much time those builds take. We had over 600 responses, so now it’s time to count the results.

This is the first time that we’ve published results on the incremental build process, so the information is more likely to serve as a guide than an authoritative information source.

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Apache Maven 3 Cookbook

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Published on Wednesday, 16 November 2011 21:04

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First a big thanks to Packt Publishing for having sent me this book to review! I did enjoy going through this book, while I did not learn a lot of new stuff (I am using Apache Maven daily since 2006!), I found it to be concise and would recommend it anytime to any of my colleagues. But let’s go through my review of this cookbook of over 50 recipes towards optimal Java Software Engineering with Maven 3:

Apache Maven 3 Cookbook is a clear, precise, well-written book that gives readers clear recipes for the release process using Apache Maven 3. The authors give a step-by-step account of expectations and hurdles for software development.

The first few chapters quickly bring you to the point to be comfortable using Maven on straightforward projects, and the later chapters provide even more recipes examples on subjects like running a Repository Manager, Writing Plugins, and details on various techniques. The book also covers numerous real world software delivery issues such as multi-module projects, web/enterprise projects, dependency management, automatic testing and documentation.

To sum up key points from this 224 pages book in a few bullets:

The author Srirangan go into detail in describing each of these themes. 

I recommend you this book if

if you want to be able to deliver your software to any target environment, using continuous delivery processes, chances are high that Apache Maven is the right tool for this job, and this book should be part of your technical library, beside also of course the free online book of Sonatype Maven: The Complete Reference