A short note to mention again that Packt are having a sale on eBooks until January 3 – which includes both books on Apache Maven. Check it out for some holiday reading!
Packt Publishing, the publishers of Apache Maven 2: Effective Implementation, are celebrating having published 1000 books with a special over the weekend. They’re giving away one free ebook to everyone that registers (or has already registered and logs in) on the site from 28 – 30 September.
You can login here: https://www.packtpub.com/login
Definitely worth checking out if you’re interested in the book, or one of their other titles!
I’ve recently had a regular task of releasing projects from multiple branches, and then merging branches together. Handling this and any conflicts hasn’t been a big hassle when it is regularly updated, with one notable exception – Maven POM files. When they are merged the version changes on both branches always conflict.
There are ways I’ve got around it to date:
--accept mine-conflict and similar options can help resolve them quickly if you know ahead of time they are the only conflicts, without additional changesmvn versions:set -DnewVersion=... versions:commitHowever, I was finding that in projects with a large number of POMs and occasional other conflicts, these were all a little too tedious. I’ve whipped up a basic script that can be used to eliminate the POM-based conflicts first, so that the remaining conflicts are only those you really need to deal with: Automatically resolve conflicts in Maven POMs after a merge — Gist. It doesn’t handle a lot of edge cases, but should work well enough for most uses.
This works pretty well with Git, and can be used with Subversion (if you automatically postpone all the resolve steps with --accept, or use a non-CLI tool to merge).
This is not something I’d want in a standard release/branch workflow – the problem could be avoided by different branching practices so that release commits are not merged. However if someone finds it useful, I’m sure they can improve on the Gist above, or perhaps patch the Maven SCM or Versions plugins to provide the capability more directly.
ApacheCon is in Vancouver this year, and now just 1 month away (Nov 7-11). There is still one week left to register for the training sessions, and to qualify for the early bird rate on the conference.
As in previous years, I’ll be offering an up-to-date version of the training course, Apache Maven: Effective Implementation:
This training course is designed to go beyond your current assumptions about Apache Maven and learn how to use it most effectively to manage the build and development process. Whether you are a novice aiming to start on the right foot, or a regular user looking to get more out of Maven and avoid common frustrations, this course will give you the skills you need to apply to your own projects. By working through a series of short exercises applied to a complete sample application, you will learn how to apply common patterns in Maven builds to achieve the desired outcome, while learning best practices and common pitfalls along the way. Topics include installation, Maven fundamentals, working efficiently with multi-module projects, simplifying the POM, the best general purpose plugins that you should know about, integration and functional testing, when (and when not) to use Maven sites and reporting, the role of profiles, snapshots and dependency management, repository management, and performing releases. The content is updated for the latest improvements in Maven 2.2 and Maven 3, and will cater to your preference of development environment. Time is reserved for sharing specific situations that attendees have encountered in existing projects.
The course runs for a full day on Tuesday, 8 November. If you’re planning to attend the training or the conference, you can connect to me on the conference website.
If you’re using Archiva for your repository management needs, you should definitely upgrade to the latest release. Download it now!
The 1.3.x series has focused on the biggest offenders in memory usage and performance problems, and Archiva 1.3.3 brings the biggest improvements yet:
In addition, a new system status page is available for assessing the cause of potential performance issues at runtime, giving better insight into how to tune memory or scanning settings appropriately.
This work is in advance of the upcoming Archiva 1.4 release which has revived the internals more significantly, with further performance improvements and a series of new features.
It’s also worth noting that we dropped support for Archiva 1.1.x and Archiva 1.2.x in November, so there’s no reason left to remain on older versions.
I’d like to thank YourKit, who provided a free license for their profiler, which was of great assistance in tracking down these issues. I’ve used it on occasion for a number of years, and it is one of the easiest tools to use that I’ve ever encountered.
The full set of issues resolved follow:
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Apache Maven 2: Effective Implementation
Brett Porter, Maria Odea Ching
Coverage of intermediate Apache Maven concepts with a focus on best practices and "tying it all together". Significant coverage of automated build and repository management concepts, illustrated using Apache Continuum and Apache Archiva.
Brett Porter 