Tag: maven

Configuring a Multi-Branch Pipeline in Jenkins – Adventures in Learning

In my previous post, I had demonstrated how to configure a Jenkins Server using Docker. The next step is to create a Jenkins job to build some software. Now, we could just do a simple freestyle job, or a basic Maven build – but that will require configuration of Jenkins every time we want to make a new project, and that makes managing the Jenkins Server via Docker more annoying. So, instead, I’m going to use the Cloudbees Bitbucket Branch Source Plugin and create a Bitbucket Team/Project job that will create the rest of my Jenkins jobs automagically for me. A similar plugin exists for GitHub, though I haven’t looked into it.

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Building Dependent Maven Projects in Bamboo

For the last year or so, I’ve been using Atlassian’s Bamboo (in the OnDemand variant) for our team’s build server. And, mostly, it’s an awesome tool. Some parts, however, are a little rough around the edges. Building dependent projects is one of them.

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AIL – JBehave Trader Example, standalone.

JBehave comes with some very comprehensive examples, so I thought I’d start there to see if I could get one of them building – and reporting – under Maven. The example I chose was the ‘trader‘ example, which you can see at github.

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Making Parallel Branches meet regularly with Git and Jenkins

If you’ve been following my tweets recently, then you’ll know that we’ve recently converted the majority of our projects at work from Subversion to Git for our source control. We didn’t just do this because we wanted to play with a new shiny toy, but because we hope to achieve a new way of working. That’s what I want to describe here.

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Maven – still giving me the shits

Some months ago, I wrote about how the Maven Eclipse Plugin 2.7 release didn’t fix a bug introduced in 2.6

Well, neither does the newly released 2.8 version.

Guys, I know you didn’t hear me earlier, but for pity’s sake – DO NOT RELEASE SOFTWARE while you still have critical bugs open. If you don’t want to fix the bugs, edit the issue so it’s no longer bloody marked as critical.

… and sometimes they don’t.

I’ve spent most of the last year involved in an intensive project that really drained me – hence the lack of blogging. I want to blog in a positive fashion this year, so I’ll start by getting a lot of gripes off my chest. 🙂 Call it things that suck.

Here’s a short list, before I define what I mean by “suck”:

  • Maven2
  • EJB3 Persistence
  • Hibernate, caches, and the way they can kill your database.
  • Maven2 (it just sucks a lot!)
  • No Java 6 on the Mac
  • No “next/previous word” keyboard navigation in the Mac terminal
  • Mac Firefox, drop-down boxes, and tabbing

and I’m sure that there’s more that will come to me. Today, I’m doing Maven – the rest will come later.

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Why external Maven repositories are a bad idea

Bandwidth costs to mirror Maven repositories: $50
File server to store it on: $1500
Developer effort to access the internal repository: $200
Having 20 developers sit around idle because you didn’t mirror the java.net repository: priceless

With apologies to Mastercard.

First impressions of Maven

I’m down with the ‘flu today, so I thought I’d do something to take my mind off it and check out Maven I’ve been somewhat critical of Maven in the past, but only tentatively as I’ve never really played with it. So I thought I’d rectify that.

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