Scott Murphy

IntelliJ, Eclipse, Textmate

Open Implementation: Command+Alt+b
Open Resource: Command+Shift+n, Command+Shift+r, Command+T
Delete Line: Command+y, Command+d, Control+Shift+k
Update Resources: fn+command+f10,
Adjust Text Size: Command+Scroll,
Assign to New Local Variable: Command+Alt+V, Command+1
Show Parameter Info: Command+P

If you get an "cannot be cast to javax.servlet.Filter" exception likwhen running Tomcat from within Maven, or really from anywhere else, then you probably have an older version of the servlet-api defined in your dependencies or (most likely) have a dependency that depends on an older version of the servlet-api.

You can solve this by manually specifying which version to use in your dependency list:

javax.servlet
servlet-api
2.5
provided

I have been having problems with the GMaven stub generation in 1.3. Apparently it doesn't like multi-line strings in annotations and nested arrays in annotations. GMaven 1.0 still works great, but I am ready to retire GMaven all together. Looking for alternatives, I found two Ant plugin integration and using the Groovy Eclipse Compiler.

Ant integration is documented here:
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GROOVY/Compiling+With+Maven2

You can updated the versions, and it will run smooth, but I prefer a more integrated approach that looks promising:

One of the most annoying things about Maven 2 was the "Unable to find resource" Warnings. If you used Maven 2, you would have noticed that when you have more than one repository location defined, Maven will give you an "Unable to find resource" Warning on each specified repository until it finds the one that has it. Just as I started switching to Gradle, say hello to Maven 3! (Gradle is a nice build tool, but unfortunately lacks the global configuration abilities and plugin support that Maven currently has)

At work we have a windows network log in so our profiles are backed up over the network every time we log in and log out. This is a nice feature, but not so nice when you have a .m2 repo folder and an .IntelliJIdea90 folder in your user home directory. I regularly delete my .m2 repo to test builds, but last time I looked it was quickly approaching 1GB. When trying to diagnose why my Windows log in and out was so slow, I also discovered that my .IntelliJIdea90 system folder was 929 MB as well!

Fix:

It seems like everyone has their own maven repository these days. The problem with maven, however, is that the more repositories you have, the more locations it checks for a dependencies. Common sense would tell you that the first place maven should look would be maven central, but that is not the case. I suppose there is a rare occurrence where you would not want this, but instead of providing a mechanism for doing that we all get the worst case scenario where central is the last place checked.

I have been evaluating both for several years.

Subclipse was the pioneer of the svn eclipse plugins and has been around for years. It is a tigris.org project which is the same as svn itself.

Subversive showed up a few releases ago and appeared to be part of the eclipse installation process (available under Install new software). However, at that time it was very painful to set it up because you had to add another repo (polarion.org) for the connector in order to make it functional. Now, however, this is no longer required.

To set up a Maven Repository, all you have to do is set up a http browseable web structure similar to your local repository. The simplest way to do this is to set up a subversion repository on a web server and use that. If you don't have a web server, just set up a subversion project on code.google.com and use that.

After you set up your subversion web server. Do a checkout and add your dependencies.

After checking out, create a folder at the same level as braches/tag/trunk called repository.

Okay, there are two Maven plugins for Eclipse: m2eclipse and Q for Eclipse.

I use m2eclipse and I am a big Maven fan.  Unfortunately, I don't want resources to show up from my target directory when I use the open resource shortcut. So how do we get around this?

From what I understand there are three ways to do this.
1. Edit a xml file in the UI jar
2. Use a plugin available from the Eclipse plugin site.
3. Add the "derived" property to the target folder.

Probably the single most important thing these days seems to be submitting a sitemap.xml to Search Engines.  Most major search engines now provide tools for you to submit your sitemap and also see various page rankings.  It looks like Micrsoft finally joined the bandwaggon and came out will webmaster tools now as well.