Around the World in Java

This post describes how to patch SonarQube to make the FindBugs plugin analyze Java 8 code. Background We start with an official installa...

"GlassFish reduced to toy product" and "R.I.P. GlassFish" are some of the headlines regarding Oracle's announcemen...

Luke is a small desktop client for browsing Lucene indices. It is very useful for troubleshooting when you work with Lucene directly embedd...

Eclipse Juno has a number of performance regressions compared to Indigo. Switching back and forth between XML and Java editors can be tediou...

Logging in Java would be a lot easier if every open source project out there would use SLF4J logging API, but of course this will never happ...

Working on a Maven plugin, I was trying to upgrade the Maven API from 2.x to 3.0.4. After the upgrade, the plugin would no longer compile du...

Equinox 3.8.0, the OSGi framework running Eclipse Juno, comes with a new console built on top of Apache Felix Gogo Shell . It is debatabl...

Problem * You want to include build info like build number, revision number etc. as a web resource in your web applications. * You have a...

Pax CDI is a new OPS4J community project I've started to combine the best of OSGi and CDI. Once you've worked with CDI or with an...

Eclipse Juno is out! It starts a good deal faster than Indigo, shows a more colourful (but ill-proportioned) splash screen, and then opens a...