When I receive an Eclipse project as an archive, I can easily import the archived project into Eclipse. Let me show you how. ► All Eclipse Tricks Share this:
Sometimes, I want to export a project from Eclipse, for backup or to share it. I prefer more sophisticated methods, such as version control, but it never hurts to know the basic tools available. ► All Eclipse Tricks Share this:
When I build an app, at some point I want to export it as an executable. A simple way is to create an executable JAR file, which can be run from the console or simply by double click on most modern OSs. Eclipse makes this easy for me. Let me […]
While playing with deployment to GitHub repositories, I figured out some interesting property of the method I presented in the previous episode: Deployments deletes all previously deployed files. While this may not be a problem with snapshot repositories, it certainly is for release repositories. But thanks to git tagging, there’s […]
You asked me how you can use a GitHub repository as a Maven repository. I figured it out and here it is: Deploying Maven artifacts to a GitHub repository is not even that difficult! ► All Maven Episodes Share this:
Maven caches dependencies locally, to reduce load on repositories. If we reference a Snapshot repository and want dependencies to always resolve to the newest deployed version, we have to tell Maven to do so. ► All Maven Episodes Share this:
Now we’ve deployed/released our stuff to repositories. What remains to be done is referencing these repositories from another project, to resolve the dependencies from it. ► All Maven Episodes Share this:
Some of you guys reported that the Maven project wizards is broken for you and only creates part of the project scaffolding. Though I highly recommend fixing your setup (you know, where one thing’s broken, probably others are, too) you can easily live without the wizard. In this episode, I […]