Stefan Arentz

The Dutch Maven 2.0 repository mirror is back online. Took about 14 hours to transfer 17407 jar files with a grand total of 8.2 GB of code. Just imagine how much source code that is
See the original blog entry on how to use this speedy european Maven 2.0. It is just a […]

A little while ago the Maven mirror at http://maven.sateh.com broke because of some weird coincidence that involved a power outage, admin error and disk failure. It happens sometimes :-/
I’m currently syncing with Ibiblio again to get the mirror back online. Ibiblio is extremely slow so that will take at least a full day I think.
Sorry […]

The Geronimo project is almost nearing a v1.1 release and that was a good reason for me to start looking at the project again. In this first blog entry from a series about Geronimo I will show how to extends the Geronimo kernel with a simple GBean and how to build this using Maven 2.0.

I have now almost completely switched over to Maven 2.0 for all my Java projects. It is a great tool. And although the learning curve is a bit steep, you should really be more productive in the end because of all the good things that you basically get for free once you […]

I’ve always tried to avoid using Maven for complex projects because I thought it would make my already complex build process even more ‘interesting’. I was wrong. Big time.
Yesterday and today I’ve setup many little Maven 2.0 projects for simple standalone tests with Spring and standard web applications. It is really nice to be able […]