Friday, September 24, 2010
Go with the grain. When you’re planing wood, you have to follow the grain of the wood. The grain has a direction, which depends on the cut of the wood. (which is the way it grew). Do that and you’ll end up with thin shavings and a smooth finish.. Go against the grain, and you’ll [...]
Supporting Multiple Environments – Part 3 (part one and two) In this installment, I’m going to cover the configuration storage mechanism for this separate configuration jar approach. Configuration Storage With the approach listed in step two, it’s easiest to manage the actual values via property files, stacked up in a layered approach. Here’s what we [...]
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
One of the longest running debates I’ve watched in the Maven community over the years, is how to best support different configurations for different deployment environments (where “deployment environment” means a QA environment or staging environment – anything other than a local developer build). Some people argue simplicity over the complexity of some of the [...]
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
The Apache Ant team just announced Ant 1.8.0. The most stunning change is that of lexically scoped local properties. Now, you can keep a property scoped to a target, or a sequential block. Hopefully this will mean poeple rely less on ant-contrib. Many people appear to misunderstand the Ant properties mechanism; maybe they are [...]
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Monday, September 21, 2009
I got a comment from Errno on my last post: “Everyone agrees that Ant Contrib means you’ve done something wrong.” why? is there any blog post/write-up describing this? thanks I don’t know of any write-up. So I’ll make one. There’s a reason why some tasks are in ant-contrib and not the Ant tool proper: they [...]
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
Abstract: We did two CITCON sessions here; Joe Schmetzer suggested a show-and-tell about tools to reduce Ant bloat, and Ivan Moore wanted a general session on improving the quality of Java builds in general. During the conference, the two sessions merged. My plan was to sit in and tweet smart-ass comments. As I had my [...]
The Maven guys have got one thing (and others, I’m not being mean) right – we reinvent the wheel too much on Java projects. Joe Schmetzer has an Ant Script Library. And Pascal here has had a crack at the problem of Ant Script reuse. Seems a bit 2002-esque to write an Ant build from [...]
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Friday, December 19, 2008
(image taken from Kurtis Scaletta’s photostream) Last time, you read about the extract target refactoring. Today, I’m going to show you one that I love to perform: delete boolean property. Have a look the smell first: <project default="unit_tests"> <property name="junit.enabled" value="true" /> <target name="-check_junit_enabled"> <condition property="junit.really.enabled"> <and> <equals arg1="${junit.enabled}" arg2="true" /> </and> </condition> </target> <target [...]
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Your build files probably need some TLC. Sorry. It’s true. If you’re lucky enough to work on a project with clean code (and let’s face it, most codebases aren’t too pretty), then you’re even luckier to have a nice clean build. Wait! Don’t go getting upset, I can help you. I’ll be introducing some build [...]
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Update: I had some nice feedback from @jtf @nasrat and @cread, so I have pushed the source files to a git repository. What’s the equivalent command to [some command in your usual build tool] in [some build tool that you're using now]? I found myself asking that question too often earlier this year, so I [...]
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