I previously mentioned that setting up a development environment for OpenCms can be quite hard. Besides our Netbeans module we are using a custom maven plugin for some time now.…

Solr is a search server that bundles a lot of useful Lucene modules and provides an HTTP interface for querying and updating the data. The index and most of the…

Some days ago I came along a problem with our beloved build tool Maven2. Since this was the first real problem with the tool I could not solve or find…

Today i integrated the JSR303 reference implementation, which is Hibernate-Validator 4.x, into an existing JavaEE application. The application is built on Spring 3.0 and uses our Synyx Hades project, which…

I have just been fighting with the sql-maven-plugin while trying to import an OpenCms MySQL dump automatically. The module wasn’t really verbose with an error message: [ERROR] Failed to execute:…

When developing web apps with Maven the de facto standard for running the app is to use the excellent Maven Jetty Plugin which runs the project in an embedded Jetty…