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Thursday, 12 September 2002

More on integrating Maven, JIRA and JUnit. Thanks Mike :-). No worries. If we can do all of the above that'd be pretty cool. Incidentally if you didn't know, when you run unit tests in Maven it creates a whole bunch of text and XML files, one per JUnit test case and the file name is the same name as the unit test. The files are all generated in the target/test-reports directory. The XML contains details of the tests, what worked and didn't along with a bunch of other stuff. So it should be pretty simple to write a  Maven plugin, or Ant task or just a bean, that can take these files and pipe them into JIRA to clear any bugs associated with now, working unit tests, or to reopen any bugs due to unit test cases failing. I guess this should happen whenever a distribution or release build is done. OK - why not hop onto #jira on irc.werken.com and we can chat about it there? I'm willing to have a crack at this but as I said I don't know much about Maven or the format of the files it generates. I'm sure it would all work much faster if we had someone who knows Maven and someone who knows JIRA working at it from different angles. I'll be the second guy. All sounds very exciting though. 8:28:52 PM  comment []      Open Source Taglibs. Anyone know of a good open source calendar tag library? Just found out we need to add a calendar to a project before it goes on the door. Something like what Radio and Roller does. I guess I could write one myself, but time constrants don't warrant that. If you know of one, please email or let me know on msn. Thanks!! [Rick Salsa] Now the nicest thing you could do would be to write something like <webwork:table> but for <webwork:calendar> - where the display is a pluggable JSP file, and you can alter the object model to display different things on each day. Then I would love you. (I need this :)) 8:07:45 PM  comment []      Patrick is going WebWork nuts today. (When did I become the WW ambassador anyway?) He's build a WebWorkExecutor into OSWorkflow 2.0.3 that can fire any WW action as a function of your workflow. There's no 'web' involved - it's pure command pattern stuff. 10:22:48 AM  comment []      While playing with Webwork and the JMX-RI it occurred to me to wonder what webwork would look like if it was JMX-ified.  If the action mappings were exposed as managed properties, would it be possible to re-configure the workflow of your webapp on the fly via a browser?  Hmm.  That could be fun.  What about using JMX notifications to make WW reconfigure itself in response to network events?  (Like putting a 'we're sorry' message over a bit of the app. if a db goes down, then automagically re-enabling it when it's back up).  Is this even remotely possible we ask? [Pushing the envelope] Hrm... JMX-ified WW. I don't see why this wouldn't be possible. I mean, you could write an MBean to expose the WW configuration object in a matter of minutes. (See my blog yesterday) As for exposing the action mappings, I'm sure that would be possible too - I haven't really looked at the action mappings code in detail. Cool idea though 10:17:23 AM  comment []      Quartz Enterprise Job Scheduler 1.0 Released [The Server Side] 10:10:39 AM  comment []      I am quickly running out of super smart friends without blogs. Eugene Belyaev (of IDEA fame) is the latest to take up the challenge with Begblog, and just like Rickard he has come out of the blocks on fire. Eugene's thought for the day: Libraries often provide frameworks, but the knowledge that this chunk of classes in there represents a framework is left to the documentation.  This is simply incorrect in my view.  Along with classes there is so much more to provide.  Another blog to aggregate and watch. I'm expecting great things. Eugene is from the same mold as Graham and Rickard - wickedly smart people who don't think in a straight line and leave everyone else running after them. 10:05:55 AM  comment []      Damn - I would love to go to JAOO. I always hear such good things about it, that it's much more developer focussed than JavaOne (which I attended in March, but really seemed like a gigantic Sun marketing exercise). Why doesn't Australia have any decent Java conferences? 9:57:10 AM  comment []      What makes a Mexican wave? In case you were wondering, here's some fascinating scientific research: If you want to start a Mexican wave in a packed stadium, you'll need at least two dozen other willing wavers sitting nearby. A mathematical study of the phenomenon - which has been rippling around the globe since the 1986 World Cup in Mexico - has found it takes this critical mass of bored spectators, standing together, to trigger a wave. I'm not sure the exact scientific relevance of this sort of study, but it's amusing nonetheless. 9:46:58 AM  comment []