Using Maven to Work with Others

I have watched a number of developers fall over the handling of Maven SNAPSHOTS today; so it was time to take action.

The general idea is an email is sent out saying "new snapshot deployed please build with -U" - here is what that means:

1. Update

   svn up

2. build using the -U option

   mvn clean install -U -Dmaven.test.skip=true

The above example skipped the tests (which is common when you are trying to pull down a quick update and keep working), please note by definition that "-U" is not compatible with the "-o" offline mode.

If you are working on uDig there is an extra step; you need to run the libs refres.xml script which will use a "maven ant task" to pull the changed jars in for your.

Documentation harmed in the making of this post:

• Working With Others (GeoTools Developers Guide)
  

Welcome to NetBeans users

Continuing this theme of pointing out hapless documentation contributors ... this week the user list covered how to get your hack on for the NetBeannies among us.

This time Michael Bedward has stepped up to the plate; in addition to answer questions he has written up some docs on on the wiki. For those wanting to use GeoTools the user guide has: Welcome to NetBeans developers

This is a great little tutorial; screen snaps showing each step along the way. Almost temps me to try NetBeans (if only for the maven integration; not having to install subversion - they make it look easy). Perhaps for my net GeoTools training course :-)

For those wanting to fix up the library (join us please) the developers guide has also been improved: Using NetBeans with GeoTools.

Thanks for the docs Michael.