I resisted Maven for a very long time. It seemed to be extremely complex for no great benefit. I thoroughly understood Ant and had built extensive and complex scripts that worked quite well.
But, eventually, I saw the light. I saw how trivial it made the majority of builds. I saw how [...]
Entries Tagged as 'XML'
Simple guide to Maven
November 9th, 2009 · View Comments · Java
Enterprise Architecture in a Web 2.0 World
April 11th, 2009 · View Comments · Architecture, Web
There’s something very curious to me. While standard thinking is that you need to use “enterprise quality” languages to scale to large loads, the reality is that big Web 2.0 sites scale much, much larger then most enterprise apps and use scripting languages to do it.
So does that mean that “enterprise quality” is a bunch [...]
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Sun and Cloud Computing
March 18th, 2009 · View Comments · Computing, Java
Tim Bray, one of the moving forces behind XML wrote a blog entry about his work on cloud computing at Sun. It has lots of interesting information in it:
Sun is working on an open specification for creating, administrating and controlling cloud resources
Sun is implementing Amazon S3 interfaces
Sun is morphing the Q-Layer software [...]
