Sonatype, the chief commercial supporter of the open-source Maven project, is working with Oracle to bring Java.net project artifacts to the Maven Central Repository, which the company administers for ...

Traditional Java applications capture runtime variables in property files, then package them into individual JARs for various software environments. But for users of Maven, it could make better sense ...

Another family of Java components will soon be available from the open source Maven Central Repository. Sonatype, the chief commercial supporter of Maven and administrator of the repository, has added ...

As software development teams get larger, application packaging and deployment tasks become much harder. Handwritten scripts and low-level JDK utility calls just don't scale as teams grow, which is ...

Nontrivial software projects need build tools. In the Java world, there's no shortage of these tools, with Ant being the standard. Maven is another project management/build tool on the open source ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. While at various conference sessions, or as a participant in development workshops, one of the ...

The actor model is a message-passing paradigm that resolves some of the major challenges of writing concurrent, scalable code for today’s distributed systems. In this installment of Open source Java ...