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topping — 2006-08-30T15:37:32-08:00

Transitive dependencies in Maven2 rock. Until they don't. Tracking down all the turds of a dependency that you need to get rid of is a real chore.

AppFuse -> Maven2

topping — 2006-02-03T21:40:16-08:00

I recently started some work with a young company that was using AppFuse. Ant isn't my cup of tea, and this entry makes an attempt to document many of the issues I came to confront.

Module Groups in IDEA Irida rock!

topping — 2005-02-05T16:45:45-08:00

Inspired by the recent addition of module groups in Irida, my XDoclet2 sandbox project now has 86 modules, including all of the XDoclet plugins, all the Jelly tags, Picocontainer and all the Nanocontainer modules, and a few other miscellaneous things.

XML Data Binding - bleh!

topping — 2004-12-19T03:17:41-08:00

In yet another wacky metadata project, I need to generate data bindings for XML Schemas themselves... the XSD of the XML Schema is the schema that I want to use to generate my bindings with. It would stand to reason that it is the most complicated XSD available, since it must be able to describe itself as well as all real-world uses that are known and loved. I tried to use jBind, JAXB, JAXME, and looked at Xerces and discounted a few others, failing at all of them. Here's the results of that.

Language-aware Emacs Plugin

topping — 2004-12-16T15:37:57-08:00

I was searching around for some AST tools and ran across http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~harmonia/harmonia/projects/harmonia-mode/doc/index.html. Might be interesting to Emacs users who aren't interested in changing over to IDEA.

Going to Guantanamo

topping — 2004-10-26T16:26:38-08:00

Well, I had to go check out Guantanamo to see what it was all about. I wasn't very impressed, but like it's namesake, it's still not mature. Hopefully only *this* Guantanamo turns into something mature!