Tag Archives: Maven

Improving developer productivity with Sonatype Professional


March 1, 2011 By hloney

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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Top Ten Reasons to Move to Maven 3


February 24, 2011 By Anders Hammar

I recently helped Dennis Lundberg prepare a talk for Jfokus on the top reasons why you should switch to Maven 3. When I work with customers setting up, or improving, their Maven-based development infrastructure I always recommend using Maven 3. I thought I’d share with you the top ten reasons that Dennis highlighted in his talk.

In a nutshell, Maven 3 is superior to Maven 2. While there might not be one single killer feature for most users, it’s more a matter of several bug fixes and improvements that together make it a much better tool. Depending on your use case and your preference, some of these reasons will be more compelling than others. Here’s the list.

#1. Maven 3 is the “Latest and Greatest”

Surely not the wording that you should use when selling this to your manager/boss/product owner/whatever, but when it comes to tools and frameworks many developers like knowing they are using the latest version. Maven 3.0 is where all the new work is done and where the main focus is. Maven 3 has a six week release cycle which was inspired by how things work at Eclipse. This gives you more predictability. You know that critical and serious bugs will be addressed quickly, and you’ll only need to wait a few weeks before the next official release is available.

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Sonatype Professional webinar for Managers and Team Leads


February 16, 2011 By hloney

Sonatype Professional for Managers and Team Leads webinar

Sonatype Professional is the only integrated suite created for a Maven developers’ build, continuous integration, and repository management needs. Sonatype Professional will help your team realize the promise of agile development. The suite includes Sonatype Certified & Integrated Distributions of: Maven, Hudson, Nexus Professional, Eclipse Integration, Developer Onboarding as well as telephone and email support from the experts. This webinar will show you how Sonatype Professional establishes workflow among individuals and departments, maintains separation of duties across multiple teams (development, QA, deployment) and improves project visibility to all participants. Sonatype Professional will help you deliver production-ready software faster, saving you time, money and a whole lot of aggravation.

  • Date: Thursday, February 24, 2011
  • Time: 9:30 am Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00)
  • Presenter: Blaine Mincey, Sonatype Senior Systems Engineer
  • Register today!

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Everything you need to know about Maven Mechanics


February 14, 2011 By hloney

Next week Sonatype is holding a training course on Maven Mechanics. There are still a few seats left, so it’s not too late to register! Maven Mechanics is the perfect course for anyone looking to learn more about Maven installation and configuration.

You will leave this Maven tutorial equipped with a full understanding of the Maven Project Object Model (POM) and a firm grasp of the underlying fundamentals of this development kit including:

  • The Maven lifecycle
  • Maven plugins and goals
  • Multi-module Maven projects
  • The contents of the Project Object Model (POM)

Training course info:

  • MVN-101
  • February 22, 2011
  • 11:00 am – 6:00 pm EST (GMT – 05:00)
  • Enroll in MVN-101

Sonatype training is suited for teams of all skill levels. Whether you are just adopting Maven in your development infrastructure or have been using it for a while, you will benefit from having your team trained by Sonatype experts.

Core Maven contributors working at Sonatype carefully design our curriculum to cover topics from Maven basics to advanced development infrastructure design. To learn more about Sonatype training, click here.

Hudson's Bright Future


February 3, 2011 By Jason van Zyl

We believe that Hudson users can look forward to a long, bright future.

Working with the community, Oracle and Sonatype are each putting a number of full-time engineering resources on Hudson. The Hudson lead, Winston Prakash from Oracle, is highly skilled, very thoughtful, and he cares about the community. He is also the first person to create detailed, comprehensive architectural documentation.

This kind of documentation (which has never been available in the past) is required to understand how Hudson can be improved. The lack of architectural documentation, along with how decisions were made, left the Hudson community mostly dependent on a single individual for core changes.   Let’s be honest about where this led: Continue reading →