Trouble at getting access to your Surefire Output Files in your CI?

We have started to use Bamboo from Atlassian in the office, which is a great continuous integration (CI) server. However, I am not the admin and getting access to the SureFire output files in the target/surefire-reports/ directory is a pain, as I have no access to the server that Bamboo runs upon (rightly so too).… Read more Trouble at getting access to your Surefire Output Files in your CI?

Integrating Maven 2, Spring and ICEFaces

Last week, I had to turn around a quick and dirty web prototype overlaying a complex piece of pre-written business logic, and on the suggestion of a colleague I tried ICEFaces. Now, there isn’t an abundance of information out there on using these three APIs/frameworks together, but there was enough to cobble together my prototype.… Read more Integrating Maven 2, Spring and ICEFaces

Using Spring 2.x XML schemas without internet access

Whilst most of us develop on machines that have access to internet, the machines that we deploy our applications upon don’t always have external access, or at the very least they have restricted access. This can make deploying applications that use Spring that reference the 2.x Spring schemas in their xml contexts, a pain. You… Read more Using Spring 2.x XML schemas without internet access

RIA or Bust

I’ve been looking at differing web based APIs/Frameworks over the last three months in an effort to move away once, and hopefully for all, from ‘traditional’ web Java development. With a plethora of RIAs hitting the market to add to those that already are there, now seems like a good time to look at what… Read more RIA or Bust