For my talk today at JFokus today I’ve taken the liberty of starting some notes for folks interested in attending. There’s a lot to cover and so I thought I would try the approach of providing some material up front so the session can be more of a dialog. I’m going to attempt to cover everything in the picture below and save the demos folks might want to see for the Sonatype booth. Happy to chat with folks and do any demos before and after the presentation. Just stop by!

Maven Stack Infrastructure

I’m going to talk about some of the under pinnings of the technologies we’re using as part of our Maven work. Why we selected the technologes and some of the current work that’s happening. Read more…

Community, Maven, Sonatype, m2eclipse clojure, Community, GIT, guice, hudson, jfokus, m2eclipse, Maven, peaberry, polyglot, Scala, Sonatype

Sonatype uses GitHub to host a number of projects including all of our books. It has been a very valuable tool for us, and we’ve already seen great benefits. The social, interactive nature of the tool allows people interested in the book to keep up with the development of the content, and we’ve already had a few contributors show up and help us write more content. Contributors can fork our books, add whole sections or correct typod and then make a simple pull request that notifies us of the changes. Because we find it so useful, I thought I’d take some time to detail the process of connecting a new Maven project to GitHub. The following post details the process of creating a new GitHub repository, importing a Maven project, and then configuring the SCM element in your project’s POM. Once you’ve done that, you can start using the Maven Release plugin to automate the SCM operations that accompany a release.

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How-To, Maven GIT, github, Maven, release