I’ve recently discovered a new player in the Flex/Maven plugin game called Flex Mojos. This one is slightly different than the other ones that I’ve seen in that it’s using the new Java based compiler API just released with Flex 3. One nice side effect is that it appears to be much faster than the previous plugins. I’ll be keeping my eye on this one to hopefully implement a decent integration with FlexUnit or even better FUnit.
New Flex Maven plugin on the block
26 03 2008Comments : No Comments »
Tags : agile, flex, funit, Maven, RIA
Categories : RIA
Analyzing Dependencies With the Maven Site Plugin
16 01 2008Now as most people will tell you I’m kind of a geek when it comes to Maven. It’s really a nice tool and it makes dependency management in large projects almost a no brainer…almost. The story I’m about to share is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent… Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags : java, Maven, tips
Categories : Maven
Viva la RIA-volution
14 01 2008Recently I’ve started working with Flex again after a long hiatus from the technology, and now I remember why I fell in love with the concept of Rich Internet Applications. I learned Flex a few years ago and due to the high cost of its server side components needed to run the applications I never found a home for it in any of my applications. So when I heard the news about Adobe open-sourcing Flex and making the SDK free as well as developing a free open source replacement for its LiveCycle Data Services called BlazeDS, I figured it was time to re-introduce myself to the Flex world. I’ve even found a promising Maven 2 plugin for building flex-apps here (http://code.google.com/p/israfil-mojo). Unfortunately it doesn’t support Flex 3 yet, or have a way to run my FlexUnit tests automatically, but I found it easier to use so far than the ServeBox plugin.
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Tags : flex, Maven, RIA
Categories : RIA
Maven Multi-Module Quickstart
14 01 2008Recently I’ve had lots of questions about how to create multi-module projects, so when I discovered this technique, I thought I’d write this up. This technique exploits a little known feature of the archetype:create plugin, and the Maven site archetype to kickstart your project. Creating a multi-module project has many benefits, one of them being the ability to build every artifact in a project with one simple “mvn compile” command. Another benefit is that if you are using either the maven eclipse:eclipse plugin or the idea:idea plugin, you can enter this command at the root of the project and it will generate all of the project files for all of the contained modules. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags : java, Maven, quickstart
Categories : Maven
