Tag Archives: Scala

Technology Focus: What is Scala?


February 20, 2012 By Tim O'Brien

Two weeks ago we talked about how many of the projects hosted in Scala Tools are moving over to publish directly to Central. That process is ongoing. In this post, I want to start something new. At Sonatype we touch a lot of different technologies and communities, and I want to make sure that we’re doing all we can to help put a spotlight on some of the communities that we’re watching. Whether it is a .NET-focused open source foundation like Outercurve, a customer that contributes back to Nexus OSS or, in this post, the Scala community, I think that Sonatype can at least help introduce some of these interesting technologies to a larger audience.

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Scala Artifacts Now on Central


February 3, 2012 By Tim O'Brien

Two weeks ago, all Scala projects required a little bit of extra configuration to point to a custom repository for Scala artifacts hosted at scala-tools.org. Today, Scala artifacts are now available directly from Central. The contents of scala-tools.org are now integrated into the Sonatype OSS repository hosting service, and other projects have started to publish artifacts Central.

The Scala community will see immediate benefits from this move. There are no more extra repositories to configure. It just got incrementally easier to use Scala. If you are new to Scala, you don’t need to reconfigure your repository manager to proxy another remote repository. The community will benefit from Sonatype’s continued investment in the infrastructure that runs Central: a cluster of machines in both the US and the EU continuously monitored by a dynamic DNS server that can reroute traffic instantly in the event of downtime.

How did this happen? Joshua Suereth, David Bernard, and Derek Chen-Becker provided the bulk of the administrative work, and they recently decided to decommision this server and transition repository hosting to the free Sonatype OSS service. Here’s the announcement by Joshua Suereth to the user forums on scala-lang.org on January 17th:

Scala-tools.org is going down and not accepting any new OSS projects. For those of us who wish to continue release software, I recommend migrating over to Sonatype. They put a few (good practice) limitations on contributions, but scala-tools.org would have done the same before long anyway. The benefit of Sonatype hosting is that your projects will make it onto the maven-central repository and benefit from the myriads of mirrors. Here’s the link for how to get started contacting Sonatype: http://nexus.sonatype.org/oss-repository-hosting.html

Publishing Your Scala Project to Central via Sonatype OSS

If you maintain a project that previously published to the scala-tools.org repository, here are three resources that provide guidance for Scala developers looking to publish Scala artifacts to Central:

How To Build a Scala 2.8/Java Application with Maven


March 25, 2010 By hloney

This mackaz.de blog post shows you how to build an application using Maven, with both Java and Scala source files.  Your project will be set up so that the Java-classes can access Scala-classes and vice versa.

The project automatically uses the latest Scala 2.8-Snapshot until it’s released (Maven will look for the latest version of the Scala language each time you build it).  We will setup the project to use cross-compiling, so the java-classes can access scala-classes and the other way around.

To read the full tutorial, click here.

Next Generation Maven Development Stack @ JFokus


January 26, 2010 By Jason van Zyl

For my talk today at JFokus today I’ve taken the liberty of starting some notes for folks interested in attending. There’s a lot to cover and so I thought I would try the approach of providing some material up front so the session can be more of a dialog. I’m going to attempt to cover everything in the picture below and save the demos folks might want to see for the Sonatype booth. Happy to chat with folks and do any demos before and after the presentation. Just stop by!

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Maven Stack Infrastructure

I’m going to talk about some of the under pinnings of the technologies we’re using as part of our Maven work. Why we selected the technologes and some of the current work that’s happening. Continue reading →

Maven: Integration and Distributed, Open Innovation


May 8, 2009 By Tim O'Brien

Brian Murphy wrote a long blog post about the PAX Plugin which provides a good example of the power of Maven to act as an integration “bridge” between a number of unrelated technologies. In this post, Brian is using the PAX Maven Plugin from ops4j together with the gmaven-plugin and the maven-scala-plugin, he concludes with praise for Maven as an essential time saver:

“This ended up being a much longer article than I anticipated but we’ve covered a lot of ground. Maven has worked it’s dependency voodoo which saved an enormous amount of time downloading jars and messing with classpaths. We’ve seen how the PAX toolkit from OPS4J makes creating, modifying and provisioning OSGi bundles a breeze. While the actual code examples were pretty trivial, we successfully managed to code up bundles in Java, Scala and Groovy. I think this displays a lot of the power that is offered by OSGi and points to a bright future for enterprise development on the JVM.”

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