Gradle is a relatively new build system that is picking up steam. In this post we’ll demonstrate it’s convention over configuration strengths and walk through a simple example. Gradle follows the convention over configuration model. ...
My current project is a single-page Grails application that contains a lot of static resources. I’m using the standard Resources plugin and have found myself spending a lot of time keeping the plugin’s config file ...
Recently I was on a project that needed to chose a build system. We looked at the usual suspects, ant and maven and after having less then wonderful experiences with both I looked for an ...
Many of us would love to use the latest and greatest tools in our development, but that’s not always easy to do. When dealing with a legacy application, it doesn’t make always make sense to ...
At my current client we use an in-memory HSQLDB for unit testing. An in-memory DB provides us a mechanism to test DAO’s and services against a known dataset. Overall this has worked out very well ...
Since upgrading some projects to the new Spring Framework 3.0, and perhaps just coincidentally noticed while updating other JAR files, I've noticed a number of warnings from Ant during my <javac> activities that indicate that JAR files are not being found. Most peculiarly, the warnings are for JAR files that are not used nor are they anywhere in the classpath....