Category Archives: eclipse

Turmeric SOA Distributions

Posted on September 16, 2011 by

One of the challenges with any open source project, is making it easy to get up and running.  A user should be able to download a binary, and type one command to get started.   Until recently with the Turmeric … Continue reading →

Posted in eclipse, open source, turmeric, web services, wsdl, xsd | 4 Comments

Push Button Builds.

Posted on September 2, 2011 by

Kim Moir had a good post on busting some build myths, and continuing the “MythBusters” analogy, I think we need to revisit a one of the myths. First let me say that I totally agree with Kim, that being in … Continue reading →

Posted in ant, craftsmanship, eclipse, maven, release engineering | 11 Comments

Transformer…More than Meets the Eye.

Posted on July 2, 2011 by

I bought the second tablet that resides in our house.   We have a first generation iPad, which my wife constantly uses.  She uses way more than the iMac we have, and it does what she needs it to do. … Continue reading →

Posted in eclipse | 3 Comments

Developing a M2E 1.0.0 Configuration Plugin

Posted on July 1, 2011 by

I recently had to go through upgrading from Sonatype M2Eclipse 0.12 to Eclipse M2E 1.0.0.   A lot of stuff was fairly easy to get working again, as package names and extension point ids where under new package and ids. … Continue reading →

Posted in agile, eclipse, maven, testing, turmeric | 6 Comments

Turmeric SOA and Cloud Mashups

Posted on June 21, 2011 by

One of the things we get asked is how can Turmeric SOA work with existing web services?  Do we have to migrate all our services over to use Turmeric?   The answer is no.   While the best gain in … Continue reading →

Posted in eclipse, turmeric | 1 Comment

Eclipse Parent POM and Static Code Analysis

Posted on June 17, 2011 by

If you are running an open source project at eclipse.org, and are using Maven then we have some good news for you.   A newly deployed Parent POM has been created for your use.  To use the parent pom, you … Continue reading →

Posted in clean code, craftsmanship, eclipse, maven, tycho | 5 Comments

Turmeric SOA/VJet migrate to GitHub for Source Control

Posted on June 12, 2011 by

The eBay Open Source projects, Turmeric SOA and VJet, have migrated all their source code to be hosted by GitHub.    All project code will now reside under the ebayopensource GitHub organisation.    Forums, Wiki, Builds, and Issue tracking remain … Continue reading →

Posted in eclipse, open source, turmeric | 2 Comments

Xalan Commit Analysis

Posted on June 12, 2011 by

I’ve blogged a couple of times about the state of the Xalan-J project at Apache.   Recently I’ve been using Ohloh.net to track some other projects, in particular the committer activity.    For Xalan, here is a graph that displays … Continue reading →

Posted in eclipse, xml, xpath, xquery, xsl, xslt | 4 Comments

Enable Code Coverage for Integration and Unit Tests using Cobertura and Maven

Posted on June 7, 2011 by

On the turmeric project, we maintain a nightly dashboard.  On the dash board we collect statistics about the project, including code coverage, findbugs analysis and other metrics.   We had been using the Maven EMMA plugin to provide code coverage, … Continue reading →

Posted in clean code, craftsmanship, eclipse, maven, turmeric | 6 Comments

Tycho Surefire Test Setup Tips

Posted on June 4, 2011 by

I’ve been helping the CDT project setup some of there build for an eventual migration to Tycho and Maven.  The CDT org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests bundle has a large legacy test suite in it.  It also is highly dependent on the TestSuite method … Continue reading →

Posted in eclipse, maven, tycho | Leave a comment