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An Introduction to Maven - Part III

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 05:00:00 EDT

In the parts 1 and 2 of this article, we demonstrated how to download and install Maven 2, how to install the Maven 2 plugin for Eclipse, and how to go about setting up a project directory structure using Maven 2. We used a simple use case for displaying employee details on the Web given an employee ID, but deliberately made the design a bit complex by introducing design concepts such as XML binding, EJBs, and JCA connectors to illustrate a few of the many features offered by Maven. In this final installment of the article, we continue with the remaining modules in our example and illustrate a few more developmental tasks that can be accomplished fairly easily using Maven that otherwise would demand significant time and effort to accomplish.

An Introduction to Maven - Part II

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:15:00 EDT

In part one of this article we discussed the core competencies of Maven and how it fits into application development and build management. Now we'll delve into some of the practicalities in exercising Maven using a practical example that will walk you through some of the common tasks encountered in typical project development and how they can be done using Maven.

An Introduction to Maven - Part I

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:45:00 EDT

Maven is a promising application development lifecycle management framework coming from Apache's armory of open source tools. Maven was originally developed as a framework to manage and mitigate the complexities of building the Jakarta Turbine project and soon became a core entity of the Apache Software Foundation project.

Cover Story: A Practical Solution to Internationalization of a J2EE Web App

Sat, 21 Jan 2006 15:15:00 EST

As the Internet crawls to even more remote corners of the globe, the internationalization of Web applications exposes a plethora of challenges. As a real-world example, if an airline starts reaching far more remote destinations across international frontiers, a Web application representing the airline's ecommerce will face numerous challenges in terms of internationalizing the ecommerce itself.

Parallel Business Logic Processing

Thu, 06 Nov 2003 00:00:00 EST

When independent business components must be executed simultaneously, the parallel processing of application business logic has a direct impact on the performance of the system; however, parallel processing at the application level historically has been challenging to implement.