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RC1 of Testing Ready For Testing [Updated]
I’ve recreated the testing repository using the latest version of my Maven Tools 4 Eclipse. To browse the repository, please use the Nexus interface. If you pull in any dependencies from the...
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Missing m2e?
If you downloaded the JEE edition of Eclipse 3.7, you’ll find that m2eclipse is missing. Don’t worry, it’s part of the Indigo release train. Just install it manually from the Indigo p2 repository:...
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New Website for Maven Tools For Eclipse (MT4E)
My Maven Tools for Eclipse (MT4E) project has now a wiki page: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Maven_Tools_4_Eclipse And I’ve started to convert the tools from Python to Groovy. Tagged: Apache Maven,...
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When Maven Crashes Eclipse
If your Eclipse IDE suddenly crashes with an error in java.util.zip.ZipFile.getEntry() chances are that you’re hit by this bug: Crash in ZipEntry when some other process changes the ZIP File at the...
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New Release of MT4E
Note: This post is now obsolete since there is a newer release. I just finished a new release of Maven Tools 4 Eclipse. It’s not written in Groovy and supports all the features of the old Python...
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Maven Tool 4 Eclipse 0.10.0 Released
I’ve just release a new version of Maven Tools 4 Eclipse (Changelog). It fixes the two most pressing issues: Bug 367461 - [mt4e] mt4e needs priming.zip Bug 354381 - Error:...
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How I Came to Hate Orbit
Orbit is an Eclipse project which contains IP clean OSS code to be used in Eclipse projects. Why is that important? Well, IP clean means that big companies who consume Eclipse code, can use it safely...
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Sonar: The current batch process and the configured remote server do not...
You might see this error message when starting the Sonar client, for example via Maven (mvn sonar:sonar): The current batch process and the configured remote server do not share the same DB...
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CBI or Taking The Pain out of Eclipse Builds
When a project is young and dashing, mistakes are made. The PDE build process is such a mistake. If you ever tried to build Eclipse (or at least some of the older parts), then you know that this is...
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Better Maven Deploy
mvn deploy has two major issues: If the project has several modules and the build fails in the middle, you will end up with a repository that is a mix of old and new modules. The POM must have the...
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groovy.lang.GroovyRuntimeException: Conflicting module versions. Module...
If you see this error while running the code from Eclipse, check the .classpath file for this line: <classpathentry exported="true" kind="con" path="GROOVY_SUPPORT"/> In this case, Eclipse adds...
View ArticleAvoid Publishing SNAPSHOTs to Nexus
Once in a while I’m running into people who deploy SNAPSHOT versions of Maven dependencies to a company-wide Nexus server with a job on a CI server. This is usually a very bad idea, especially when...
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