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Atlassian has added a continuous integration service as a new feature to their GitHub Cloud product. It’s called GitHub Pipelines and it is similar to Travis CI for GitHub offering a nice integration for continuous integration/delivery pipelines for projects hosted on GitHub. It’s still in the beta phase and requires a sign-up but nevertheless I’d like to demonstrate the current state of this service and how easy it is to add scripted pipelines to a project. ...

There are several ways to aggregate and report application performance indicators in a Java application. One common way here is to use Java Management Extensions (JMX) and MBeans. The Yammer Metrics Library eases this task for us and simplifies the aggregation of different reports. In the following tutorial, we’re going to set up a full Java EE 7 web application by the help of Maven archetypes and we’re running the application on WildFly application server that is downloaded and configured completely by the WildFly Maven Plugin. ...

Disable YUI compressor <plugin> <groupId>com.atlassian.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-jira-plugin</artifactId> <version>${amps.version}</version> <extensions>true</extensions> <configuration> <compressResources>false</compressResources> [..] </configuration> </plugin> Confluence – Get favourites by user Using the label manager. List getFavouriteSpaces(String username) Confluence – Determine the base URL Using the SettingsManager: String baseUrl = settingsManager.getGlobalSettings().getBaseUrl(); Confluence – Get the context path Using the BootstrapManager: String contextPath = bootstrapManager.getWebAppContextPath(); Confluence – Using Velocity Template for a Macro final VelocityContext contextMap = new VelocityContext(MacroUtils.defaultVelocityContext()); contextMap.put("key", obj); // references obj as variable named $key in the velocity template VelocityUtils.getRenderedTemplate("path/to/template.vm", contextMap); ...