Felipe Leme's Blog: Deployment Archives

Posted by felipeal on July 13, 2004 at 04:38 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

I haven't blogged in a while - even after attending Java One 2004, which is source for blogging heaven - but I couldn't let this date pass on without making some noise.
From Maven's main page:


Maven 1.0 Released - 13 July 2004



Maven 1.0 has been released.

Download | Installation Instructions | Release Notes

'Nuff said..

Felipe

PS: and, of course, congratulations to the whole Maven team :-)

More JSR announcements

Posted by felipeal on November 25, 2003 at 09:18 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

As I said in my previous weblog, more J2EE-related JSR final releases would be announced soon. And here they are:

NOTE: if eventually more of those JSRs are released today, I will update this blog (instead of creating another one)

Running ant in loop mode

Posted by felipeal on September 02, 2003 at 09:31 AM | Permalink | Comments (9)

Once in a while I work in a Java project where I need to run a simple Ant task many times in a short period of time. Like web projects where the JSP files are located in a directory under source control and are deployed in another directory by an Ant task. If I change a JSP file, I need to run Ant again, and it takes an eternity (about 5-6 seconds), due to the overhead of running the JVM, reading the XML files, etc...

Wouldn't it be nice if I could leave Ant running in a loop mode in those situations, so when I change the file I could redeploy it without that overhead?

For me, the answer is "Yes, that would be nice". But Ant doesn't have that feature, so now what? Now I can change Ant to include that feature, and that is the beauty of open source projects: if you want a new feature, you can just grab the code and implement it yourself. The same with bugs: rather than wait for the vendor to fix, test and publish a patch, you can open the code and nail the bug!

Now back to that new Ant feature: I created such patch and opened a bug for it.

We've been using it for a while in my team, and so far it's working fine. It's not in the basecode of Ant yet - and it might never be - so I upload the code to my site. If you liked the idea, please feel free to download it and give it a try. And if you like the results, give me some feedback through the bug's page or this weblog.

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