Posted by Maarten Winkels in the late afternoon: June 6th, 2009
Say you want to build a web application and you want to use Seam for integrating standard technologies like JSF and EJB. Furthermore, you want to use the power of Maven to build your project for different environments, on different systems (like you continuous build system) and use its’ rich reporting features to get an overview of the code quality of your project. And of course you want to use a good IDE, like Eclipse with JBoss tools to aid you in development. How does one go about setting up all these things?
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Posted by Himanshu Gupta in the early morning: January 7th, 2009
With the help of maven dashboard plugin, the dashboard is integrated with the project and the reports can be generated on local machine. One step further would be to configure the reports on the bamboo build server itself so that the reports can be viewed by everyone.
For this to happen, following changes need to be done in the configuration of bamboo plan:
- In Bamboo plan create the Maven goal “dashboard” using ‘clean install site dashboard:dashboard’ command and make the build JDK version to 1.5. The change in goal will make sure that at the specified time the build would run automatically and goal called “dashboard” would be executed. This will create the reports on the Bamboo server. Though the reports have been created, you can’t see them yet.
- To see the reports, we’ll use the artifact feature of Bamboo plan. Create a label say ‘dashboard’ in Bamboo plan (artifacts section) and in copy-pattern section specify ‘**/dashboard/**’. With this pattern, build execution will preserve the files on server and will save them with the build number. One can go and see the results of the build and also the dashboard results now by clicking on artifacts link in “Build Results Summary” page. Now the build is integrated with dashboard and one can click on link came in email results (sent from Bamboo) to view the report. However you (should be logged in already) can always use “<Bamboo server base url>/download/<project name>/artifacts/latest/Dashboard/index.html” to view the reports.
Posted by Boudewijn van Klingeren in the early evening: November 2nd, 2008
At my current project we are using Maven 1.1 for creating build artifacts. Although a little bit outdated these days, it still works well. As Maven 2 this version also has the option of filtering resources (e.g. XML or properties files) to substitute certain keywords with values specified in properties files and/or the command line. We are using it for a number of reasons and it works perfectly… if properly used, off course.
Posted by Jeroen van Wilgenburg around lunchtime: October 9th, 2008
Have you ever tried to pronounce a url generated by Wicket? It’s quite a tedious job and often end users want to have understandable url’s (even when that url has no meaning).
It’s is quite easy to get normal url’s in Wicket. In this article I’ll show you several solutions, the first two with plain Wicket and the final solution is with wicketstuff-annotations.
Posted by Jeroen van Erp around lunchtime: September 15th, 2008
In many JEE apps today, you almost cannot forgo XML. Whether it is in configuration, data structures or service interfaces, you will certainly use a number of XML files. In a recent project we had to deal with a number of external services which used an XML interface. Little did we know that we introduced a potential time-bomb in our application… (more…)
Posted by Lars Vonk mid-morning: August 28th, 2008
Using descriptive names is a good programming practice. Today I came across an example that does quite the opposite. In Maven 2 you can define a proxy when you are working behind a proxy server, and there is this active flag that sets this proxy to active or inactive…. or at least that is what you expect right?
Posted by Erik Pragt around lunchtime: July 29th, 2008
The problem
What if you’re working with Maven, where you’ve got all your dependencies nicely organised, and now you decide to use any other piece of ‘classpath-aware’ software, like Fitnesse. The chances are that you’ll need to use the same classpath in Fitnesse as in Maven. A possible solution could be to maintain it by hand, but why not write a very small script for it to do it for you? My (very very very!) basic solution is to use a Groovy, because it’s easy to write, easy to read, and easy to use!
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Posted by Lars Vonk in the late evening: July 10th, 2008
A new version of Xebia’s open source maven-dashboard-plugin has been released. This version fixed some bugs. A quick guide on how to use the dashboard in your project please read this blogpost.
Keep an eye on this blog or checkout the roadmap in Jira for upcoming releases.
Posted by Jeroen van Erp in the wee hours: March 27th, 2008
Quality is an everyday part of the life of a Xebia software developer. One of the ways to get insight into quality is by looking at metrics like FindBugs, PMD, Simian, Code Coverage, etc. With large software products consisting of different modules, quality assurance can become quite a trying task. This means that tools which alleviate this burden are a welcome addition to our toolbox.
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Posted by Balaji D Loganathan at around evening time: March 4th, 2008
The purpose of this post is to give a Maven based sample code of Spring with Stripes integration. The source code set is already in Eclipse project format, so you can use eclipse to view files content and structure.
This post will not explain about the techniques of integrating spring with stripes. The spring with stripes integration is very well explained at Stripes framework wiki page – Spring with Stripes. I kindly suggest you to read that documentation first before trying out the sample code given in this post. This post also assume that you are familiar with the basics of Maven, Eclipse, Stripes and Spring.
Few of the other “How to” samples (like Ajax addition, addition, echo, stripes layout reuse) that were documented in Stripes framework wiki page were also included in this sample code.
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