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Sonar & Ant
Sonar is made for maven. Nothing to do and it works. There’s now a ant task to use sonar on your project build by ant. You’ll have the same results, except that by default, you will not have the results of your tests (passed/failed) and…
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get hostname in ant easily
After searching a while, here is the best way I found to get the hostname in a propert. Just use exec task : <exec dir="${basedir}" executable="hostname" outputproperty="host.name"> The trick is the attribute outputpropety of the exec task. You can then use ${host.name} variable to…
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More about reusable ant scripts
As I promised in July, a little note to write better ant scripts. Following comments on my previous post (http://javathought.github.io/2009/06/09/reusable-ant-build-file/), I finally arrived on this excellent presentation from Douglas Bullard at JavaOne 2009. Read it, it will really improve you scripts. The basis…
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First step after installing Eclipse
Do you know what you should do, immediatly after installing Eclipse ? Setting your file ecnoding charset : by default, Eclipse uses cp1252, wihch is not quite ideal if you have to deal with internationalisation and character manipulation in your datas with differents charset. Just go to the window- preferences menu and…
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Reusable Ant build file
Hello, I’m back from some vacations. The topic I want to discuss this time is the use of ant build files. I don’t like the build files generated by netbeans. Why ? Working in a professional environment, you have to master all your building chain : know what…
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XML binding with JAXB 3/3 : plugins
Once you’ll have been working with JAXB basis, you’ll want to enhance what your doing. For example, in my case, I want to bind my datas with a GUI. For that, I’ll need to use beans binding (JSR 295) with netbeans. You can begin…