Today we’re going to take a look at the Maven Embedded GlassFish Plugin and how it allows us quick creation of GlassFish server instances in no time and Java EE 6 application deployment.

With a few lines of configuration in your Maven’s pom.xml we’ve got a running GlassFish instance and are able to  redeploy our application fast by pressing enter in our console.

In the following tutorial we’re going to build a Java EE 6 Web Application with a stateless session bean and a web servlet and finally deploy – and redeploy the application using the Maven GlassFish Plugin.

(more…)

Sometimes I get the impression that there are many Maven haters in the Groovy/Grails community – now with version 1.2 of the Grails framework they are able to abandon the evil satanic Grails Maven Plugin and embrace the neverending joys of a slim, nice, sexy dependency resolution dsl .. here we go .. lets define some dependencies wheee … (more…)

We are all waiting for a stable release of Maven3 with following updates ..

• faster, more performant .. save us time building our software and some precious memory ;)
• improved artifact resolution api and plugin api
• better osgi integration
• a few bugfixes
• no mixing of application dependencies and tooling dependencies
• though it does not matter that much to me: polyglot features .. e.g.: “Writing your pom files in Groovy”
• version-less parent elements for multi-module or multi-pom projects, no need to define the parent version in every submodule
• better artifact resolution, which dependency or pom supplied which artifact to the outcome .. got that information from: “Splitter from the world of Java”

(more…)