Next Generation Infrastructure with Maven, m2eclipse at EclipseCon 2011
EclipseCon 2011 is approaching quickly, but it’s not too late to make plans to head to Santa Clara, California this month!
EclipseCon is the conference for anyone involved in Eclipse. As a proud member of the Eclipse Foundation, Sonatype is looking forward to another year of great talks, tutorials and BOF’s. We will be hosting a number of extended workshops as well as talks in the Cypress Room all day on Tuesday, March 22, 2011.
Sonatype founder Jason van Zyl will be giving a presentation on Next Generation Development Infrastructure with Maven, m2eclipse, Nexus & Hudson.
Presentation details:
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. In this talk, Jason van Zyl, Founder of the Apache Maven project, will discuss the future of Maven and specifically Maven 3.x, the rapidly approaching m2eclipse 1.0 release, the recent Nexus 1.9 release and roadmap, and emerging tools such as Maven Shell and Polyglot Maven. 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.
Event details:
- Date: March 21-24, 2011
- Location: Hyatt Regency Santa Clara, CA
- Event website: http://www.eclipsecon.org/2011/
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Improving developer productivity with Sonatype Professional
Development teams often struggle to achieve the full promise of agile methodologies using their current tools. The Sonatype team wants to help change that.
Sonatype Professional is a suite of next generation development infrastructure software that extends the Maven ecosystem to improve both the speed and quality of Java development projects. Sonatype Professional integrates the m2eclipse, Nexus Professional, and Hudson-based continuous integration and adds unique developer onboarding functionality to get you productive fast.
Attend our webinar – Improving Developer Productivity with Sonatype Professional – to learn how this suite can help transform your software development process.
Webinar details:
- Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2011
- Time: 1:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00)
- Presenter: Blaine Mincey, Sonatype Senior Systems Engineer
- Register today!
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Navigation improvements in the m2eclipse XML POM editor
If you use the m2eclipse POM XML editor, you will be interested to know that we’ve made a number of improvements to the interface. Yesterday, we introduced some addition auto-correct options and automatic integration of the POM XML editor and the Artifact Search dialog. Today, we focus on improved navigation options now available in the m2eclipse POM XML Editor. By making use of the current effective POM, we are able to give you more information right at your fingertips.
The screenshot below shows options that are available to you by hovering over on an expression in the m2eclipse POM XML Editor.
New in m2e 0.12.1 – Maven 3.0.2, Async HTTP Client
Today we are releasing m2e 0.12.1. Despite our previous announcement that 0.12.0 would be the last version made available from Sonatype, we have decided to cut this point release to make available new versions of the m2e dependencies.
Most notably, this release includes recently released Maven 3.0.2 embedded runtime and an updated version of Async HTTP Client that resolves all known issues reported against m2e 0.12.0, and thus helps make m2e work better in corporate environments.
As usual this version of m2e is made available from the Eclipse Marketplace and from http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/sites/m2e/.
Enjoy!
Inserting artifacts in the m2eclipse POM editor
In the upcoming m2eclipse release, we’ve reworked how inserting artifacts (dependencies, plugins, parents) works in the XML editor. Instead of generating a skeleton template snippet for you to populate with maven coordinates (groupId/artifactId/version) we reuse the Artifact Search dialog. This post is a glimpse into some of the functionality that will be available in the coming weeks.
Instead of expecting a user to supply these artifacts directly in the XML editor, you now have the option to search for an artifact and let m2eclipse take care of the details. We’ve also made some improvements to the Artifact Search dialog. Screenshots speak as thousands of words though so let’s take a look.
Read the rest of this post to learn more about this new way to insert artifact coordinates in a Maven POM using m2eclipse.
