Brett PorterThoughts on Maven and Java from my corner of Sydney, AustraliaSun abandons version numbers in favour of rebranding- November 16, 2003 As any product approaches version "10", there seems to be an aversion to using a version. Red Hat Linux stopped at 9 and merged with Fedora. Mac OS decided roman numerals were the go, Microsoft started throwing all sorts of years, letters, and marketing symbols behind the versions of their software. Sun's application server isn't really that close to 10 (currently at 7 and I'm not sure there were really 6 versions before that), but it seems that the history of rebranding it is going to...http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/brett/archives/000258_sun_abandons_version_numbers_in_fav... Cactus: not as spiny as it sounds!- November 10, 2003 It's been a long time coming (I promised myself this two years ago!), but I finally took the plunge and started writing some Cactus test cases. I had it in my head that it was going to require a lot of work, but thanks to a lot of recent usability enhancements by the Cactus team, and a well-written Maven plugin, setting up was a breeze. Once I had a simple test case in place, I just had to add 4 or 5 properties to my project.properties file, and run maven cactus to test the case against...http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/brett/archives/000254_cactus_not_as_spiny_as_it_sounds.ht... Mike Cannon-Brookes on TSS and WebWork- November 6, 2003 For those that couldn't be in Sydney to see Mike Cannon-Brookes speak at SJUG a few months back, this tech talk on TSS has a lot of similar elements in there. Interesting readinglistening depending on your preference for video or transcript. I've promised myself I'll give WebWork2 a try "real soon now", but regardless I think we are probably tied to Struts and Tiles here due to the large amount of infrastructure and code invested into it by now. Not that there is anything wrong with Struts!..http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/brett/archives/000241_mike_cannonbrookes_on_tss_and_webwo... JMeter to the Rescue- November 3, 2003 I'm impressed. I haven't checked out JMeter for some time, although even when I did use it briefly about August last year for a large project's load testing requirements, it did the job. The more recent versions have added a little polish, but now come with an ant task for automating the load test run and the server-side capacilities seem a lot clearer although I still haven't given them a try. I think I'll be using it more often from now on, as automating such tests is a necessity, and its..http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/brett/archives/000237_jmeter_to_the_rescue.html |