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1. Maven Archetypes Updated!

   Two years ago, I published a Maven archetype for Hadoop that turned out to be quite popular, judging from the comments I received and the access logs on my server. Today I've updated it to use the latest version of Hadoop and to build on Maven 3 without warnings.

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2. Hudson vs. Jenkins Revisited

   When the Hudson/Jenkins fork was announced earlier this year, the case seemed pretty clear. There were heroes from the Open Source community, among them Hudson's original author, and there was everybody's favorite villain, Oracle. Back in February, I would have chosen Jenkins without a second thought. Now, almost a …

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3. Deploying to Tomcat From Maven Builds

   It's quite common to deploy web applications from a nightly continuous integration job to a testing server. In my case, I want to deploy a Java web application to a remote Tomcat server from a Maven build. Enter Cargo, a collection of tools for controlling Java EE containers like Tomcat …

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4. A Maven Archetype for Hadoop Jobs

   In my last article I showed how to build a Hadoop job that contains all its dependencies. To make things even easier, I created a Maven archetype that turns project setup into a simple 30 second process.

   To generate a new project run the following command (on one line):

   mvn …

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5. Maven: Building a Self-Contained Hadoop Job

   Non-trivial Hadoop jobs usually have dependencies that go beyond those provided by the Hadoop runtime environment. That means, if your job needs additional libraries you have to make sure they are on Hadoop's classpath as soon as the job is executed. This article shows how you can build a self-contained …

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6. Development Done Right

   In my projects, I've always been the one who took care of infrastructure, standardization and quality assurance from the development perspective. The funny thing is that I'm no admin and no QA guy, so most of it wasn't even my job. In this article, I'm going to list a few …

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7. The State of Java Build Systems

   Most people eventually get it that building release artifacts using their IDEs is not the way to nirvana. Builds have to stay stable and reproducible between IDE revisions, and being able to execute them in a command line environment or especially continuous integration servers is key to agile development.

   Fortunately …

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8. Generating DDL Scripts from JPA Annotations with Maven

   A while ago I posted an article that showed how to generate a database schema from JPA annotations. Since I didn't get the hibernate3 maven plugin working back then I used the antrun plugin as a workaround. Thanks to the help of a reader the plugin works now, so an …

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9. Creating a Minimal Enterprise Application with Maven

   Setting up a Java EE application is no trivial task. Dependency management, building, and deployment can get pretty complex and require a thorough understanding of deployment descriptors, jars, ears and other artifacts.

   In this article, I'm going to present a truly minimal Maven-based setup for the JBoss Application Server (tested …

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