Sonatype will be holding a much anticipated webinar on Hudson Integration with Maven Studio for Eclipse next month.  On Tuesday September 28 Senior Systems Engineer at Sonatype, Blaine Mincey, will host a webinar that will show you how Hudson Integration will increase productivity, by allowing you to view the build results from your Hudson jobs within your own IDE.

This webinar will highlight features that are available with the Hudson Integration feature of Maven Studio for Eclipse. It will review the benefits of Hudson Integration directly from your Eclipse development environment.   Finally, it will demonstrate how you can track the status of interesting jobs in Hudson so you know immediately if something needs to be fixed without leaving your IDE.

Hudson Integration with Maven Studio for Eclipse webinar:

• Tuesday September 28, 2010
• 6:00 am PDT, 3:00 pm Europe Summer Time (GMT+02:00)
• To register, please click here

Sonatype, hudson hudson, Maven Studio for Eclipse, Sonatype, webinar

Sonatype will be presenting at Eclipse Day hosted by Google in California this week.

Each year Google hosts an Eclipse Day and puts together an agenda that includes Eclipse and Google related topics. This year there will be presentations that feature Android, Helios, GWT, EGit, Linux Tools, Eclipse 4.0, EMF, XText and more. Sonatype’s founder, Jason van Zyl, will be presenting on Next Generation Development Infrastructure with Maven, m2eclipse, Nexus and Hudson.

This talk focuses on the Maven Ecosystem and the under-pinnings of technologies that are going to shape the Next Generation Maven Development Stack. While the Maven 3 release retains backward-compatibility with plugins written for Maven 2, the foundational technologies used in Maven are being recast to allow for more space for expansion as Maven starts to expand into newer spaces like OSGi and Polyglot development. In this talk, van Zyl discusses new, emerging technologies and how they fit into the overall approach to the development of a Next Generation Maven Development Stack. This presentation will include an overview of the following technologies:

• Moving Maven from Plexus to Guice
• Continued work to support OSGi development with Tycho
• Support for Polyglot development and alternative languages
• m2eclipse, the primary Eclipse IDE Maven-integration used at Sonatype which is also integrated with STS and JBoss Tools.

Eclipse Day hosted by Google:

• Thursday, August 26, 2010
• 9:00am – 5:00pm
• Googleplex
• 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
• Mountain View, CA

Sonatype eclipse, google, hudson, Jason van Zyl, m2eclipse, Maven, Nexus

In the previous post in this series I discussed three compelling ways in which a repository manager can benefit the development cycle. It proxies artifacts locally, it is optimized to store binary artifacts, and it facilitates a new level of collaboration and agility that isn’t possible when your SCM is only way for workgroups to collaborate. In this post, I’m going to talk about how a repository manager works in concert with a continuous integration server like Hudson or Bamboo.

Read more…

Maven, Nexus ant, builds, continuous, hudson, Maven, repository

Whenever I speak to someone doing Java development, I always ask if they are using a repository manager. Repository managers are still an emerging technology, but I’ve noticed a consistent trend: more and more developers view a repository manager as an essential part of development infrastructure. This certainly wasn’t the case just two years ago, and I think that the big motivator behind this trend is that the quality and stability of Maven Central has improved remarkably because of the efforts of people like Brian Fox and others who are focused on making the service more stable.

Another reason why we’ve seen more adoption is that most developers understand the benefits of using a tool like Maven for automatic dependency management. In 2005, it was common to see projects store binary JARs alongside source code in projects. In 2010, you rely on the repository and the metadata it contains. If you use a library like Guice, you’ll add a dependency on the artifact and let your build tool take care of the details. To do otherwise would be to commit yourself to a manual work updating JARs and testing dependencies each time a new version of an external library is released.

Despite the increasing prevalence of repository managers, I still stumble upon workgroups and organizations that haven’t heard of repository management. When you ask if they are using a repository manager, they might think you are referring to Subversion or source control. This series of posts is a high-level overview of the main benefits of repository management. If you are trying to convince someone to start using a repository manager, the next few blog posts are for you. Read more…

Maven, Nexus hudson, Maven, Nexus, repository manager

This August Sonatype will be presenting at Eclipse Day hosted by Google in Mountain View, California.  Each year Google hosts an Eclipse Day and puts together an agenda that includes Eclipse and Google related topics.  This year there will be presentations that feature Android, Helios, GWT, EGit, Linux Tools, Eclipse 4.0, EMF, XText and more.

Sonatype founder Jason van Zyl will be presenting on next generation development infrastructure with Maven, M2Eclipse, Nexus and Hudson.  This presentation will show how to employ best practices when using these tools individually as well as together, as a powerful set.

All development organizations eventually converge on a set of tools to reduce costs, lower onboarding time, and leverage knowledge in strong communities to create standard processes. To this end we see in many organizations the emergence of a standard development stack consisting of Maven, M2Eclipse, Nexus & Hudson. Sonatype itself leverages this stack on a daily basis and this discussion will focus not only on the tools individually, but how they can work together to create a best practices approach to building and delivering your software in your organization.

Eclipse Day takes place on August 26, 2010 in Mountain View, California.  For more information please visit the Sonatype events page.  We hope to see you there!

Sonatype eclipse, google, hudson, Jason van Zyl, m2eclipse, Maven, Nexus, Sonatype