LinuxSA October 2007 - Linux at the Australian Red Cross Blood Service

  Hi all,

  Time for the October meeting announcement (it's 12 days away)...

  The usual details:

   When:   7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
           Tuesday, 16th October, 2007
   Where:  Senior Secondary Assessment Board
           of South Australia (SSABSA)
           Boardroom (1st floor)
           60 Greenhill Road
           Wayville SA
   Cost:   FREE
   Who:    Anyone and everyone.
           No pre-registration necessary.

  Presentation:

   Ashleigh Kennett-Smith will be doing a presentation about how and
   why the Australian Red Cross Blood Service uses Linux servers and
   clients for its mobile blood collection units.  The system is based
   entirely on Fedora 7 (servers and clients), with a standard
   operating environment automatically set up through kickstart.
   Ashleigh will go through various aspects of the system:
   - hands-off install with kickstart
   - hostapd, FreeRADIUS and SSL
   - MadWifi and wpa_supplicant
   - LUKS/dm_crypt for disk encryption
   - repackaging Fedora with Pungi

   Ashleigh has been using Unix-like systems for 14 years (including
   Solaris, Tru64, SCO, Linux, HPUX, AIX) and is currently working with
   the Australian Red Cross Blood Service.  His role includes
   developing systems for their mobile blood collection units.  He was
   the sole developer of their previous system which used Red Hat 9
   servers and Windows 2000 clients.

  Finding the Venue and Parking:

   You can park either beneath or next to the SSABSA building.  If you
   are driving west along Greenhill road, you can turn left into the
   driveway if you are going slow enough to notice the sign and turn in
   time :-), or you can turn left at the next road, and left again to
   go along the street behind the building to access the carpark that
   way.

   If you try to enter the building from street level but the doors are
   locked, walk down the stairs and use the lift in the below-ground
   carpark.

  Pizza:

   After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
   Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).

  For more information:

   Email:        organisers@linuxsa.org.au
   Web Page:     http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
   Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
   IRC:          #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net

tech/LinuxSA | 04 Oct 2007 | #

Maven Trick #257

The project I'm looking at right now uses Maven to do dependency management - and trust me, the project has so many dependencies it _needs_ Maven :-)

So the question begs, when integrating the large working source tree with external-to-maven tools, how do you get the CLASSPATH out of Maven for use elsewhere.

Many googles and reading bits of Maven: The Definitive Guide later the solution is a semi-obvious:

mvn dependency:build-classpath

tech/code/Java | 04 Oct 2007 | #