Brett PorterThoughts on Maven and Java from my corner of Sydney, AustraliaMaven: what I'm working on- August 18, 2003 I've started out committing some of my changes into CVS. I'll need to test them again now and apply them over the course of a week. I think the next few things on my list are: Roll in the changes I've made to plugins for our work environment into the main versions, as I've made them all generic cases (appserver:precompile-jsp for Tomcat 4.1, war:inplace goal are two examples) Fix bugs assigned to RC1 Add more improvements to the IDEA plugin for Aurora Other ideas I've posted to JIRA like...http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/brett/archives/000229_maven_what_im_working_on.html Committing to Maven- August 17, 2003 I was really pleased to be voted in as a committer on Maven last week. I'm looking forward to continuing to contribute to the project and help pull it towards a v1.0 and beyond - its a great tool that has helped us out a lot where we've used it. Thanks to all the guys who gave me a +1! :)http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/brett/archives/000228_committing_to_maven.html New IntelliJ Aurora Build- August 13, 2003 I downloaded the latest IntelliJ Aurora build yesterday. It seems more stable (no more syntax errors popping up warning dialogs!), and added some new features such as the ability to indent XML files with 2 spaces while Java with 4.http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/brett/archives/000227_new_intellij_aurora_build.html Taking Maven for Granted- August 11, 2003 After nearly 2 years of not precompiling JSPs with Tomcat 4, yesterday I gave in and patched Jasper so it behaves exactly the same way at runtime as it does via JSPC. It took an hour, and I can now create the entire work directory, drop it in place and not have it compile JSPs until they change. Hopefully they won't but its nice to have the option for quick changes on a production server in an emergency, which the whole web.xml fragment idea doesn't allow. I was reminded yesterday just how much.http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/brett/archives/000226_taking_maven_for_granted.html Maven IntelliJ Aurora plugin- August 7, 2003 I got a functional version of the intelliJ aurora plugin finished last night. It could still do with some tweaking (as could the orinigal), but it'll get the job done. It's attached to MAVEN-607 if you'd like to use it. Still contains the v3 code as well, so you can replace the existing plugin without any worries.http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/brett/archives/000225_maven_intellij_aurora_plugin.html IntelliJ Aurora- August 3, 2003 Being a new IntelliJ user, I must admit to not having done a lot of research about what was available for it plugin-wise. I've now found the community site and the early access site. A few of the plugins are quite handy, but I was much more impressed by IntelliJ Aurora, the current beta version. Not only is it running rather smoothly on my laptop (128mb RAM rarely cuts it for an IDE these days), but the look and feel is now much more polished, and the featureset has grown quite a bit. I'm...http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/brett/archives/000224_intellij_aurora.html |