Maven

It is often handy to be able to extract the Maven version of your project at run time, either for displaying in an about box, or in debugging information. One option is to read /META-INF/maven/${groupId}/${artifactId}/pom.properties. However, this file is only available in the packaged version of your project, so during development the method will fail. The approach I’ve taken to fulfil this requirement is to create a text (properties) file in the project resources, and have Maven process this. This allows Maven to inject the version number during compile. The following snippets need to be configured. ...

Recently I had need to deploy some Spring webapps which required predeploy configuration. Being the first time I had to find a serious answer I looked to the mythical JNDI for an answer. This document is meant to complement other Spring JNDI documents out there. Essentially the problem is this. We need to deploy a webapp. The webapp needs configurations (database and webservice endpoint locations). Editing properties files or XML config within the webapp isn’t nice, because on a redeploy the config will be lost. Inside containers like Tomcat I am not aware of a way to easily add extra items to the classpath which won’t get nuked unexpectedly, so solutions like PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer don’t really fly as the properties file will end up within the webapp. And I don’t like the idea of setting environment variables for to locate such things. ...

Here’s a very weird Maven/Java issue. The error message (below) occurs in my build phase where JaxB is called to produce some Java objects from XML. JaxB calls HyperJaxB, and on some systems it crashes. [ERROR] XJC while compiling schema(s): org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: Class org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLogger does not implement Log Caused by: org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: Class org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLogger does not implement Log Caused by: org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: Class org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLogger does not implement Log Caused by: org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: Class org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLogger does not implement Log ...