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

| 04 Oct 2007 | #

Java to be Open Sourced

As gman says, "Hell has frozen over."

Sun will be making an announcement here very soon that Java is about to be released under GPLv2.

This is great news, albeit 5 years too late. I hope Java gets some momentum again now as a result. Well done Sun! Long live Java!

| 13 Nov 2006 | #

Java 5

Java 5 J2SE aka "Tiger" is about to be released. Looking at the release notes and the Java 5 in a Nutshell article, Java's finally got generics (Ada had them in 1983 :-) not to mention inherited primitive type boxing borrowed from C#, and varargs, and as would expected, many more APIs.

The market swing (pun intended) appears to be towards C#. Will this release revive Sun's fortunes?

| 01 Jul 2004 | #