Maven – Andy Gibson

JBoss Java EE 6 spec dependency in Maven

Andy Gibson QuickBytes

Adam Bien wrote about the Troubled with the crippled Java EE 6 APIs in Maven and a solution for them. Another solution has presented itself now that JBoss has finalized the Java EE 6 spec pom and added it to their public repositories as of early January 2011. You can include the spec in your […]

Releasing Maven Projects with Git(Hub) in Windows

Andy Gibson Tutorials

In the process of moving some new and existing projects to GitHub and releasing them using Maven under Windows, I discovered a number of issues that can be tricky to get around. This post is for anyone else with the same problems, and for my own future reference. First off, most of these issues are […]

Knappsack Archetypes Part 2

Andy Gibson Articles

In part 1, we looked at the basic structure and configuration of the project that is common in all the archetypes. This time we’ll look at the minimal archetype that contains some more functionality and a number of different classes used to implement that functionality.

Create A New Project With Maven Archetypes

Andy Gibson Tutorials

Prerequisites Install Maven In this tutorial, we will create a new project using the Knappsack Archetypes and compile and deploy it. For this example, we will use the jee6-basic-archetype. Before you begin, you will need to have installed Maven, but you no longer need to manually install the Knappsack Archetypes as they are in the […]

Installing the Knappsack Archetypes

Andy Gibson Tutorials

This is a brief guide to downloading and installing the Knappsack Maven Archetypes for Java EE 6.

Installing libraries into Maven from source

Andy Gibson Tutorials

This article describes how to install artifacts into Maven from the source code. To start with you should have installed Maven and downloaded the source code you want to install. This same mechanism can be used for library jar files to archetypes that you want to install.

Install DataValve into Maven

Andy Gibson Tutorials

This tutorial will show you how to install DataValve into your local Maven repository. You should already have Maven installed locally on your machine into which we will be installing the DataValve libraries.

A Guide to Spigot For Seam Developers

Andy Gibson Articles

Note : Spigot has been renamed to DataValve. (Edit : I renamed this post so it doesn’t seem like Spigot is just for Seam, Spigot can be used with different frameworks or without any at all. However, I wrote this post since Spigot is so familiar to the Seam EntityQuery that it should be easy […]

Glassfish, Netbeans and JSF 2.0 Test Drive

Andy Gibson Articles

I’ve spent some time in the last couple of weeks playing around with Glassfish, Netbeans 6.8 Beta (and milestone 2 before it) and JSF 2.0, and I have to say that this is turning out to be a really good set of development libraries and tools.

Open Source is Hard

Andy Gibson Articles

I’ve been working on getting my procedural texture library completed and released to the public which should be ready next week. I’m currently going through the difficulties that always go with getting that last bit of polish on a project to get it ready for public consumption. In particular, I’ve just switched over to maven […]