In updating some internal projects today, we noticed that the Hibernate 3.2.7 (released last month) library was not uploaded to the JBoss repository. This seems curious as you can see that all previous 3.2 and other 3.3 releases are in the repo, including 3.3.2 which was also released since 3.2.7.
I’m not [...]

This is a raw dump of some random Maven tips that I use to debug things that come up with Maven. Instead of stashing these away in a text file I thought maybe someone else could find some use in them.
Debugging Maven Two of the most important command-line options for debugging Maven issues [...]

This post is inspired purely on a comment from my colleague Walter about Maven.
Here’s the normal technology adoption curve (x=time, y=satisfaction):

And here’s the same adoption curve as applied to Maven:

All just in fun of course….

maven (mā’vən) n.

A unit of time equal to the length of the first mvn call of the day. The first call typically will involve downloading new snapshot versions of many external dependent jars from the Internet. I’m going across the street to get some coffee and a muffin – back in a [...]

I wrote a while back about the project I’m currently working on to build a reference application with Terracotta. At that time, we were still trying to decide on exactly what stack to use. It’s kind of a tricky thing because we were trying to decide on a stack that met several goals:

Used [...]

At Terracotta we use several dependency management systems. Our main source tree depends on Ivy and our Forge is heavily reliant on Maven.
Right now we’re starting the process towards our next release and got to the point of cutting the release branch. This of course, required our main source build system (using [...]

Terracotta is releasing version 2.5 this week and along with it, a new site called the Terracotta Forge. The Forge is a place where both Terracotta and the community can manage and release Terracotta-related projects. There are several types of projects on the forge right now: sample programs, Terracotta Integration Modules (TIMs), utility [...]