I do the majority of my development work on a Mac. As anybody familiar with Mac-based or Linux-based development knows, one accumulates a variety of “hidden” files in ones root directory, many of which are critical for development purposes. Examples: .bashrc – development paths and shell variables .ssh – keys for SSH .m2 – Maven […]
Embedded Jetty for Integration Testing
In a previous post, I mentioned using Jetty as part of testing a web application. The basic idea is that you can embed Jetty within your application (or at least within your test code), have your tests fire it up as required, and then perform “live” queries against your site. The purists would argue, of […]
Maven and the Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
I admit that I was a bit slow to see the value of Maven. Perhaps I had too many years steeped in Unix and make, but ant felt comfortable and Maven did not, at least initially. Suffice it to say that I’m a convert, and now find myself disappointed when I can’t manage a project […]