Tag Archives: maven

Maven: Discovering Dependency Conflicts

Posted on August 30, 2014 by Matthias

Among other things, Maven’s dependency plugin displays the result of Maven’s dependency resolution mechanism. The output of the dependency:tree goal makes it easy to see where transitive dependencies come from. This week I discovered that recent versions of the plugin … Continue reading →

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Maven Archetypes Updated!

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Matthias

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 … Continue reading →

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Hudson vs. Jenkins Revisited

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Matthias

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 … Continue reading →

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Deploying to Tomcat From Maven Builds

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Matthias

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 … Continue reading →

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A Maven Archetype for Hadoop Jobs

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Matthias

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.

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Maven: Building a Self-Contained Hadoop Job

Posted on July 24, 2010 by Matthias

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 … Continue reading →

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Development Done Right

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Matthias

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 … Continue reading →

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The State of Java Build Systems

Posted on August 2, 2008 by Matthias

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 … Continue reading →

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