"When scheduling project builds in Continuum, keep development builds and nightly builds separate. Development builds should run quick and often so that broken builds are immediately flagged, while nightly builds should run everything and must deploy the generated artifacts to an accessible repository where developers and QA members can retrieve it the following day." For example, [...]

After almost a year of writing and revising, our book is finally finished and published The book is about Apache Maven and centered on a "best practices" approach. It is not the usual how-to books but more on effective usage and application of Maven in your projects/applications. You will also learn how to use [...]

  ApacheCon Europe is coming up!** I’m given the privilege of holding an hour long session at the conference to talk about Archiva. Here’s a short summary of what I will be covering in my presentation: www.eu.apachecon.com/c/aceu2009/sessions/169  Wendy Smoak and Carlos Sanchez will also be speaking at the conference. Wendy will be doing a presentation on Apache [...]

I thought I’d share this knowledge that I’ve learned while migrating our project to be distributed in a Jetty bundle JMX (see java.sun.com/javase/technologies/core/mntr-mgmt/javamanagement/) I’ve summarized this into the following steps: 1. You must have a jetty-jmx.xml file with the following configuration: <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Mort Bay Consulting//DTD Configure//EN" "http://jetty.mortbay.org/configure.dtd"> <Configure id="Server" class="org.mortbay.jetty.Server">     <!– =========================================================== –>     <!– Initialize an [...]

Continuum 1.3.1 (Alpha) has been officially released today! Although this is just an alpha release, there’s a vast amount of new features (in it’s initial implementation) to look out for as can be seen in the release notes below: Release Notes - Continuum - Version 1.3.1 ** Sub-task     * [CONTINUUM-2023] - Document usage of parallel builds ** Bug     [...]

For the first time in Apache Con history, Apache will be hosting a bar camp! Visit http://barcamp.pbwiki.com/BarCampApache for more details

  I was given a chance to do a fast feather talk about Archiva at the ApacheCon US 2008 on Wednesday Nov. 5, 3pm at the Sheraton Hotel in New Orleans. See you there!

Want to have RSS feeds in your Java application? Try Rome.. "Rome is an open source library for generating, parsing and manipulating RSS and Atom feeds. It supports different RSS and Atom feed formats such as Atom 0.3, and Atom 1.0, RSS 0.90, RSS 0.91 Netscape, RSS 0.91 Userland, RSS 0.92, RSS 0.93, RSS 0.94, RSS [...]

  BarCamp in Manila tonight at the G2VC Innovation Center, starts at 7pm..  Sign up now! For more details, visit barcamp.org/BarCampManila See you there!  

The first meetup of the Groovy Users Group will be held tomorrow 7pm at the Orange and Bronze office in Makati. Topics to be presented: Intro to Groovy by Michael Mallete Grails + Acegi walkthrough by Melvin Dave Vivas For more details, visit groups.google.com/group/philippine-groovy-users/browse_thread/thread/a835c5c84b6f9679 See you there!