Author Archives: Carlos Sanchez

Spring is moving to Maven 2

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That’s right, read Ben Hale blog entry. Now you don’t have any excuse not to use Maven 😉

For those of you who have been in despair over the last couple of
months about Spring 2.0 and Maven, you won’t be for much longer. The
Spring community has decided to incrementally convert all of the Spring
projects over to Maven. As you may know Acegi has already been using Maven for a very long time. Recently the Spring-WS project converted as well. I’ve personally prototyped Spring Web Flow’s conversion, and there is general agreement that Spring will move over as well.

In an unrelated note, if you want to have real fun, watch JavaPolis commercial.

Traveling on august 10th

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Last thursday I was flying from Spain to the US, during the terrorist alert. I was lucky as I always fly through London Heathrow, but this time I did through Philadelphia. In Madrid just a bit of extra security, at that time the news were only that a plot had been discovered in the UK and most flights to London were cancelled. In Philadelphia they didn’t tell us anything about the restriction on liquids after we checked in the baggage, and as I was carrying some goods I had bought in the dutty free shop I had to go out of the terminal to another one and check it in in my laptop case (as they don’t allow small packages), and take the laptop and all the valuable stuff by hand.

After that we had to wait more than an hour inside the plane waiting for people and cargo from connecting flights, and then more than another hour in line on the runway to take off. The most annoying part was that in that 2.5 hours we were told every 5 minutes “we’re about to leave, just a couple of minutes”, even at the end when we were like 5th to take off, and after 15 min the pilot came back and said “don’t ask me why but we are still 5th” after a bunch of planes took off, lol.

Sun jars available on Maven repo

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If you use Maven you probably already know that Sun jars were always a problem because their license didn’t allow redistribution. Now with the effort from the Glassfish project Sun is releasing a lot of components under the open source CDDL license. It allows the redistribution so we have started syncing the Maven repository at Java.net managed by the Sun guys, for now only the com.sun.* and javax.* groups and only the official releases.

Maestro and Better Builds With Maven Book 1.0.1

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Today is release day, two things are out, a new version of the Better Builds with Maven book with the errata found to date fixed, and Maestro, open source end-to-end build solution based upon Apache Maven and Continuum that’s
easy to use, fast, and pre-configured for use with a high performance
repository, with commercial support available from Mergere. And yes, both the book and Maestro are free (as in free beer).

Announcements follow for more detail:

 

Mergere is pleased to announce the release of Better Builds with Maven 1.0.1, the How-to Guide for Apache Maven.

The book covers:

  • An introduction to Maven 2.0
  • Building applications with Maven
  • Creating J2EE builds
  • Plugin authoring
  • Monitoring source code, testing, dependencies and releases
  • Leveraging repositories and continuous integration in a team environment
  • Converting existing Ant builds to Maven

This latest release corrects all errata found to date. Thanks to everyone that has contributed feedback since the initial release!

Better Builds with Maven is available free of charge (after registering) from http://library.mergere.com/.

Mergere is pleased to announce the release of Maestro 1.0.1, an end-to-end build solution based upon Apache Maven and Continuum that’s easy to use, fast, and pre-configured for use with a high performance repository.

Maestro includes:

  • the Maestro Project Server for managing automated builds, project artifacts and developer sites
  • the Maestro Developer Client for building Maven projects
  • auto-configuration of developer settings from a common Project Server
  • an automated installer for Windows, Mac and Linux systems
  • comprehensive bundled documentation
  • the book “Better Builds with Maven” (v1.0.1, also available as a separate download)
  • Source code, licensed under the Apache License 2.0

Maestro is free to download and use (after registering) from http://www.mergere.com/products_developers.jsp.

There is no need to re-register if you have previously downloaded from Mergere.

Support is also available from Mergere. For more information, see http://www.mergere.com/services_core.jsp.

Running of the bulls – San Fermin

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One of the more well know things about Spain in the rest of the world is the running of the bulls in Pamplona which is happening during these days. Too bad that people without training or drunk, foreigners mostly, get every year badly injured or dead.

Definitely something you must check out once in your live.

Maven Day – Paris

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If you happen to be in Paris the 11th, from 8:30 to 12:30 there’s a free conference, Maven Day, with three core developers from Maven, Jason van Zyl, Vincent Massol and Emmanuel Venisse.

74/80 rue Roque de Fillol
Puteaux
Mo La D�fense – Esplanade

There’s a page where you can find more Maven events.

Acegi Security 1.0.1 released

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As Ben Alex is travelling around Europe (lucky you!) I had the task of releasing the bug fix release 1.0.1, as many people were waiting for SEC-281, due to Acegi 1.0.0 requiring Spring 2.x and breaking under 1.2.x.

One of the differencies with previous releases is that this one does not provide signed jars, instead PGP signatures have been provided.

Check the detailed changelog. This release is a drop in replacement, so no upgrade steps are required.

It won’t be available through the normal Sourceforge download page (for now), the preferred method is through the Maven repository which contains the jars, javadocs and sources, with corresponding signatures.

The Acegi repository is mirrored to the central ibiblio repository, so you don’t need any extra configuration in your project.

You can still get the binary zip distribution and sources.

The Acegi web site provides additional information on Acegi Security’s features and access to online documentation.

And now back to the World Cup and the Formula 1 race 😉

Spring and Maven relationship

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Many of the Maven and Spring users out there have complained for looooong time about not having the latest Spring releases in the Maven repository at iBiblio, something that I personally solved every time there was a new release of Spring copying the jars in the repo, ensuring also that they are the official releases as it’s something used for a lot of people.

Then with Maven 2 the problem started to be the poms not being there, so as I like Spring I came with a parallel Maven 2 build that could be added to Spring CVS so we could build it with Maven 2 and thus having the right poms for Spring users. You can find this conversion in the Better Builds with Maven book, Ant to Maven migration chapter. The problem is that as new features are added into Spring, dependencies are updated,… things get out of sync pretty fast. So I kindly requested the Spring guys to add the poms to their CVS (as both Ant and Maven build can coexist) and let the community help improve them. The jira issue is SPR-1484, you can find there the latest poms i’ve been working with, and at spring/lib/readme.txt you can get the versions of dependencies used (although docs are not always up to date). If you want Spring to support the Maven 2 poms and make sure they are always up to date in sync with the releases you can vote for the issue SPR-1484.

Remember that we have now more than 11000 jars in the repo + more than 1500 project sources + more than 700 javadocs! keep doing this great job submitting them!

De vuelta en España

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Volví esta semana a Coruña, después de bastante tiempo fuera de España. Las cosas no parecen haber cambiado demasiado, un poco de fresquillo después de los días calurosos que me contaron del fin de semana.

Aparte de eso, me he dado cuenta de que conozco más gente en este negocio (informática, open source, java,…) fuera de España que aquí, lo que es un poco triste. No hay demasiada innovación, yo diría que un montón de política en el medio en vez de razones técnicas. También hay gente que cree que pueden hacer las cosas mejor e intentan inventar la rueda.

Algunas de las cosas que leo en español son

  • Javahispano, con las noticias en el mundo Java. Por desgracia creo que un gran porcentaje son simplemente traducciones de noticias que se pueden encontrar antes en inglés, con lo que pierden bastante interés. Si tuviera más tiempo me gustaría echarles una mano, por lo menos de las noticias sobre Maven me entero rápido ;).
  • Rogelio Bernal de eListas, eGrupos y ZoomBlog. Otro que se ha tenido que ir a hacer las Américas y vive en el Silicon Valley. Parece un tío majo que se lo curró, tenía que haberle hecho una visita cuando estuve por allí. La próxima vez será.
  • Eduardo Pelegri de Sun y su Acuario sobre Glassfish. También por el Silicon Valley. Lo conocí en persona en JavaOne y está intentando posicionar Glassfish como una alternativa a los otros servidores de aplicaciones open source y creo que va en muy buen camino.
  • Martin Varsavsky, fundador de Jazztel, Ya.com, y ahora con FON. Al principio interesante para ver cómo estuvo formando la empresa, consiguiendo capital, partners, etc. cada vez se hace más aburrido porque te suelta el rollo publicitario FON en cada entrada. Y que si mi avión privado por aquí, que si mi cena con Clinton por allá,…

Otro día con más tiempo pondré algunos más.

Juan Valdez

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I’m pretty sure everybody knows who Juan Valdez is, the character that represents the cafeteros from Colombia.

What I didn’t know was that his real name is Carlos Sanchez ;), something I found out while reading that he’s about to retire. What a coincidence! I’m sure the jokes around me will last some time.