hudson

One of the new tools I discovered is Hudson. This is a building system that can build your projects (ant/maven/…) from svn. More information here: https://hudson.dev.java.net/

my jstl frustrations

the in-container jstl interpreter functionality is great. And where there are greats things there are also less great things. Some of my frustrations on jstl: no way to cast objects. In some...

maven and tiger

By default the maven compiler plugin assumes you’re working with 1.3 compatible sources. So tiger (java 1.5) sources will throw an UnsupportedClassVersionError. The solution is to configure the maven-compiler plugin in your...