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And so the duplication begins May 26, 2004
See AntWorks for yet another library of reusable Ant imported tasks. This one uses a list of properties as it's project model. It will be...
throws Exception is evil May 25, 2004
Another post today on the maven users list about an exception hidden inside stack traces inside of others etc. That the exception was allowed to...
More on Fire v2 May 22, 2004
Howard's posted a bit more about Moving away from Maven Since his blog requires a Blogger account to post, I'm commenting here. Simplicity: Even though...
Fire version 2 May 21, 2004
I saw on Howard's blog how he's converting back to Ant from Maven. Go for it! I'm happy that with Maven we have all this...
Quick access to Jelly docs via FireFox May 19, 2004
I often go looking up the syntax for jelly tags or ant tasks. Firefox has this cool feature that allows you to parameterise a bookmark....
Interesting tidbits on Ant May 19, 2004
I was reading Scot McPhee's blog about my recent entry: "Forgive my possibly perverse Maven-hating Ant-loving sense of humour, but I think if the Maven...
Maven needs to learn from Ant May 15, 2004
I found this article from Conor on Ant's IO system, something Vincent and I have discussed on IRC as something Maven could readily do with....
Problems with the Maven 1.0 architecture May 14, 2004
A small brain dump on some of the bad things about Maven 1.0 and it's architecture . Plugins live in $MAVEN_HOME/plugins. - There is no...
XML Beans Links May 07, 2004
"Steve Hanson shows how to create and use XMLBeans in a Web service client and then leverages their capabilities in an actual client for...
Marc Fleury the comedian May 05, 2004
This article made me laugh out loud. Axis is gone??? IBM pulled out sometime late in 2002, and the project has been healthy and developed...
SCO and $$$ April 19, 2004
I saw an interesting article on The Register today. Maybe the litigation will die a natural death....
Microsoft release free C++ toolkit April 19, 2004
See this site which has more detail, but it's a command line set of tools from VS.NET...
Good J2EE Developer needed in Sydney April 06, 2004
If anyone out there is a good J2EE developer, looking for an interesting project to work on as a permanent, pop me an email. Experience...
Subversion kills Windows XP March 25, 2004
I installed Subversion this arvo, and rebooted. Bad move. The desktop would no longer come up on WinXP SP1a. Uninstalled Subversion and my desktop was...
Maven 1.0 RC2 uses a lot less memory March 25, 2004
Today I moved a build machine from Maven RC1 to RC2. A multiproject build of 24 projects into a single EAR file (including non-container tests)...
WSAD and log files March 24, 2004
See this technote for details on diagnosing problems like An error has occurred....
WebLogic Workshop vs IBM WSAD March 24, 2004
I found this report while browsing the bea site. Interesting read......
Targeting servers in WSAD 5.1.1 March 24, 2004
developer works has an article on specifying the target server for j2ee projects in WSAD 5.1.1...
IBM, WebSphere 4.0.x and wasting time March 23, 2004
(update: Apparently the TechNotes on the WSAD support page are the best place to look for issues, along with the README file of the released...
Top ten tomcat config tips March 15, 2004
On Java Tips...
ERH slams March 05, 2004
Elliot Rusty Harold slams the Colorado Software Summit because they allegedly ' have a reputation on being stingy when it comes to paying speakers'. As...
Call for Papers for Java/Web Services conference March 04, 2004
There's been a call for papers for Colorado Software Summit 2004. This year the focus is on building and deploying Web services using Java and...
WebSphere and Maven March 03, 2004
Recently I've been taking our automated build process (using CruiseControl) and getting it to integrate in with WebSphere 4 AppServer. The was40 plugin has been...
Eclipse Profiler Plugin March 03, 2004
Note to self: keep a list somewhere of good plugins. Add profiler to it....
Netbeans module plugin for Maven March 01, 2004
This is a maven plugin that helps building netbeans modules with Maven. It's an offshoot of the ide development work. Go Milos...
NetBeans gets Maven support March 01, 2004
The ide plugin team on Sourceforge recently announced a ">NetBeans module that brings code completion for: - your project.xml file (currently POM version 3 only)...
Places I've visited February 23, 2004
create your own visited states map or write about it on the open travel guide...
Maven Resignation February 11, 2004
Yesterday I resigned from the Project Management Committee of Maven and from here on in will take a definitely less active role in the project...
Spam and Domino January 15, 2004
I've been trailling several spam products for our Domino servers lately. kSpam works well, but needs TLC from an admin POV. The UI should also...
Shocks - a new web app framework December 23, 2003
I know, YAWAF. I've had a fleeting look @ shocks, and posted some suggestions to the mailing lists. The lead developer is very open to...
Spy/ad ware on windows December 23, 2003
One of the email lists I'm on mentioned Spybot-S&D a spy/ad ware removal tool for windows. It found some interesting registry entries, set up hosts...
NetBeans 3.6 Release December 07, 2003
Here is the link to the proposed NB3.6 feature list. Finally catching up with eclipse and even eclipsing it in some areas! Due end of...
NetBeans 4.0 release December 07, 2003
Seems netbeans is to have a 3.6 release soon, followed by 4.0 later in 2004. See this link for details of the 4.0 release....
Windows Boot screen replacer November 24, 2003
Got my monthly Stardock newsletter today, and it mentioned BootSkin, a freebie boot up screen changer...
Common Controls for Struts November 24, 2003
I found this set of Common Controls today browsing around. Looks interesting....
Open-source Portlets November 11, 2003
Today Plumtree announced this initiative along with Documentum, Sun, and BEA. The Sourceforge site looks very interesting....
1 NetBeans facelift coming up! November 10, 2003
From the NetBeans Weekly News: "The new windowing system is going to be merged into the CVS trunk on November 12th." See The XP L&F...
JSF stuff November 10, 2003
I've heard about java server faces for a long time now, and so far it's been nothing exciting, and shrouded in mystery. Today I found...
Portlets November 10, 2003
There's been a lot happening on this front lately. I caught Dave Lander's session on portlets at CSS 2003 recently. That prompted me to go...
New Battlestar Galactica Mini-Series November 09, 2003
My brother Dale forwarded me this link to a new series of the above show. Can't wait till it hits Oz....
Knoppix STD November 07, 2003
Mike Bowler put me (and several others) onto Knoppix-STD, a bootable linux distro with some cool security tools built-in. EtherApe was a gold mine of...
Neil Graham November 07, 2003
I met Neil Graham of Xerces fame when I was at CSS2003 last week. He was a smart, funny guy who, other than being Canadian,...
AntiPatterns and Ant November 07, 2003
Went to Bill Dudney's talk on AntiPatterns using selected Jakarta Projects at CSS2003, and the Ant section was screaming to me: Use Maven. It's amazing...
Doclets and documentation November 07, 2003
Looking around at doclets after getting inspired by the JDK1.5 metadata facility. Saw dbdoclet which will produce docbook from javadoc comments, as well as class...
Unit testing EJBs, Struts Actions and JDBC November 07, 2003
While at CSS2003 last week, I found MockRunner which is a lightweight framework for unit testing applications in the J2EE environment. It supports Struts actions...
Struts Sessions at CSS2003 November 07, 2003
Just got back from the Colorado Software Summit, which was an interesting week. While I was there I met, eat with and saw in action...
Economics of Open Source November 07, 2003
Simons keynote is available as a PDF here...
Economics of Open Source November 01, 2003
Simon Phipps presented yesterday on the economics of Open Source, which was very interesting. I'm hoping Wayne puts the material online after the conference for...
Java Conference Goodies October 30, 2003
I'm in the U.S. at the moment at the Colorado Software Summit. The highlights so far have been updates on what's in JDK 1.5, the...
OnJava article on maven October 24, 2003
See this, a fairly unemotional article for a change....
Installers for Java Programs October 15, 2003
There's now an NSIS plugin for maven, which automates the creation of a simple win32 installation program. To use it, you can check it out...
Cygwin, viewcvs, apache and Win32 October 14, 2003
I was looking for a way to get viewcvs going for our CVS for NT installation. I tried installing Python for Windows and using...
Google Tag Library October 11, 2003
Saw [Google Tag Library] in my email inbox today. Good for public sites and open source projects....
Blogging from the browser October 10, 2003
I got MozBlog set up to work with codehaus and can now blog easily from the browser window. Sweeeeet....
Open Source Installer for Windows October 10, 2003
Been using the Nullsoft installer for the recent maven stuff, and it's a pretty slick package once you combine it with an editor...
Maven installer refreshed October 10, 2003
There is a refresh of the maven installer for windows. This one adds an uninstaller, links to common documents, checks for JAVA_HOME before installing and...
Windows install of Maven now easier October 10, 2003
Maven gets a .exe for Windows users...
SSHd on Windows October 03, 2003
Cygwin includes sshd. Getting that running was reasonably easy thanks to some good docs....
DNS on Windows October 02, 2003
I needed to set up a cheap DNS server on windows today to service intranet requests. Man, there are some real shockers out there. Finding...
JSP tag libraries - displaytag October 02, 2003
While adding some powered-by sites to maven today, I stumbled across a cool looking tag library. Yet to use it, but it certainly looks the...
Maven bashing October 02, 2003
If you're looking for a place to bash Maven, go join them at The Server Side. We all love to bitch and moan don't we?...
OpenOffice.org September 12, 2003
I recently finished doing some presentations on Maven and Jelly using OpenOffice.org 1.1 instead of the usual Msft PowerPoint. I was really happy with how...
Kristen & James September 09, 2003
James was tempted but he wasn't quite tempted enough....
Kristen & Cost September 09, 2003
How much were the batteries for your thing?...
Kristen & Toys September 09, 2003
KGB: This works so much better now I've replaced the batteries!...
j2ee ides? August 19, 2003
I've recently paid for my subscription to the myeclipseide for a year @ $US29.95. For a pretty well functioning j2ee ide, it's a bargain if...
Maven 1.0 here we come August 05, 2003
I've finally moved all those pesky damn Jira issues and scheduled them all. We're now only 61 issues from getting a release. Go for it...
Jira and Batch Editing August 04, 2003
I've been working with Jira today trying to organise maven issues into a roadmap. It's been tedious and time consuming as there's no easy way...
Beta 11 or RC1? July 24, 2003
There's been lots of talk lately about release candidates vs betas for Maven. I'm firmly in the RC camp, as the core of maven has...
Maven 1.0 Beta 10 July 21, 2003
Just in case u missed it, 1.0 beta 10 has been released. It's a lot of bug fixes, documentation updates and a few new features....
Ben Blogs July 10, 2003
All round queenslander, Ben has a blog here in the haus....
Editing XML files with Maven and Ant July 10, 2003
Vincent mentioned XMLTask today on the Maven lists, and it's just what I've needed for some of our builds...
DTD Documentation July 09, 2003
Had a need the other day to turn a DTD into something nicer. Here's a tool I found....
Jira - Linked issues vs Roadmaps July 09, 2003
Someone mentioned that Jira has a RoadMap feature that shows what versions the user thinks things should be fixed in. The report that's there for...
When will Maven b10 be released? July 09, 2003
I've been asked this a few times by a few people, and as a nice example of how Jira works, here's the list of issues...
MS Word as a documentation standard July 08, 2003
Just going through the thrills of getting a consistent, accessible set of documentation for a set of projects we're working on at the moment and...
MultiProject support and maven July 04, 2003
Well, maven now has a much better ability to work with multiple projects simultaneously. Thanks to Michal for helping out on this one. This means...
HttpClient 2.0-beta2 July 02, 2003
Another beta of the infamous httpclient has been released....
Struts 1.1 released (finally) July 02, 2003
Yay, it's finally reached the release point. Much as I use struts, I'm still not really happy with the architecture it uses and the amount...
Maven b10 imminent June 30, 2003
Beta 10 of Maven is almost ready to go. If there's something you want in that release, please raise it in Jira and link it...
Java 1.4.2 released June 30, 2003
Just in case u missed it , here it is complete with lightweight internet download....
Tomcat Guide from O'Reilly June 30, 2003
See this for more detail...
A code duplication checking tool June 23, 2003
Here is a cool tool, which checks for duplicated code. It's fast and plugs into CheckStyle....
Keeping preferences between eclipse/wsad installs June 23, 2003
Kristen passed this one on to me.......
Old Programmers June 18, 2003
Struts Pocket Reference June 16, 2003
If you're doing web app dev with Struts, this looks like a must have....
XSLT and Visual in the same sentence June 16, 2003
Visualising XSLT, now there's something I never would've thought of. And given my loathing, I mean love of XSLT.......
Web UI - Progress Bars June 16, 2003
Found this one looking around this morning. Bob, wheres the YAWF????...
Safari - is it worth it? June 16, 2003
I know a couple of people that love their Safari subscription but I'm yet to be convinced. Does anyone else out there use it?...
JDO Book authors online June 16, 2003
As part of the promo for their book, David Jordan and Craig Russel of JDO fame are doing an online forum thing on JavaRanch. Go...
Web Services in a Nutshell June 16, 2003
Must be O'Reilly day...saw this one in the email today too.......
CVS book from O'Reilly June 16, 2003
This looks interesting. I also love the way O'Reilly put a chapter or so online for you to check out first....
New Laptop June 13, 2003
Well the new laptop arrived, so it's been a fun morning of install and configure and reboot ;-) Gotta love XP Professional....
Struts 1.1 RC2 released June 10, 2003
Struts 1.1 RC2 is out...
Commons FileUpload 1.0RC1 Available June 10, 2003
Commons FileUpload 1.0 Release Candidate 1 is now available...
Apache gets a webby June 10, 2003
The Webby Awards: 2003 Winners Look under Technical Achievement....
NetBeans 3.5 is out June 10, 2003
And here it is...
Tapestry 3.0 beta 1 released June 10, 2003
You can find it Tapestry: here...
Old Blog June 10, 2003
Just in case I forget here's the old blog...
CodeHaus June 10, 2003
Well, I suppose now I'm an official 'hausmate'. Email + blog = identity. email: dion@codehaus.org blog: http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/ Still waiting for that new Dell laptop to...