Pushing the envelope

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Updated: 26/01/2003; 11:49:33.
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  13 August 2002

Maven. Maven 1.0 beta 5 has been released. Maven is a funky tool that simplifies the life of Java developers. [james strachan's musings]

Aye, he be speaking the truth.

I used Maven on a little projectlet I'm playing with and it did all the boring work for me. All I did was create two source directories (one for production code - other for unit tests), a single index.xml documentation page and a project descriptor - and it magically produced this.

Given how much time I typically spend playing with build files, documentation, test/code reportings, etc, this was a major timesaver.

[Joe's Jelly]

Two useful tools in one post! I'll be following QDox - I was looking for a simple parser when I got bored of keeping test suite classes updated by hand and wrote a simple suite generation tool. Ended up doing it with string matching, not ideal, but it does the job. This looks like it might be just what I need.


7:59:23 PM      comment []

Found Rikard Öberg's blog today. Definitely worth a look.

Also worth further study:

Coherence, a distributed cache for J2EE applications.


4:09:01 PM      comment []

A C# plugin for Eclipse has been released. Microsoft must be in two minds about this. On one hand they absolutely need to nurture the development community if .NET and C# are to take off, on the other, they want to sell as many copies of Visual Studio .NET as possible.

This can only be a good thing for the platform - an alternative (and free) IDE will be an effective way to attract those who are on the fence to at least evaluate .NET. I'll be posting my own thoughts on it in the near future...


10:25:55 AM      comment []

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