More often than not, my projects end up as multi-module maven builds, with a top-level pom.xml in the trunk directory and sub pom.xml files in each module. For big projects, I even end up with more that two levels of POM inheritance. All this adds up to how many pom.xml files the project contains, and [...]
Want to compile flex code with maven? Don’t know which plugin to choose? Maybe this post will help you. Today, there are several available options for compiling flex with maven. On my list, I have these:
flex-mojos
israfil
servebox
Of the three, I have tried only the first two for real. I did take a look into the servebox [...]
In this post, I compare performance, measured in time taken to compile flex modules with maven, from two different maven flex plugins, israfil and flex-mojos.
The Contenders
If you compile flex projects from maven, you need a maven flex plugin. Targeting flex 3, there currently exists two plugins:
Flex-mojos
Israfil
The Problem: Time Taken to Compile
One problem with the “mxmlc” [...]
If you have a local repository for your own, in-house developed, artifacts, you might also sometimes have the need to generate MD5 sum files for these, to avoid maven warnings when downloading. I know I have this need, when I put some artifact from the outside world into my local repository. The other day, I [...]
Maven is getting a good deal of backlash these times, latest from Tapestry God Howard and from Graeme Rocher the Grails God, but I have also not been holding back myself. We get so frustrated sometimes, when tools doesn’t feel right, while at the same time, we cannot do better ourselves! I thought I wanted [...]
Today, I had a strange problem with maven, the maven surefire plugin and log4j.xml configuration not really getting into the action. No matter what I did, I could not get log4j logging statements lower than WARN level to show on stdout. But only when the tests ran from maven surefire! If I executed them directly [...]
