Scott Murphy

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.

Ever wondered why "Convert to a Dynamic Web project..." is under the Project Menu in Eclipse?

It is there for one reason and one reason only:

Yes, my friends it is their to tease and mock you.  How do I know this? Wel, it's simple actually.  Notice the trailing "..."?   You most likely are a software developer if you are reading this. Would you really put a "..." after something if it was supposed to work all the time?

In order to use interceptors with Annotation-based controllers, you need to configure the DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping used by the Spring container.