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Making Maven 2 work with JUnit 4

The current stable version (2.2) of the maven-surefire-plugin does not support JUnit 4. So Maven, out of the box, does not work with JUnit 4. Luckily if we want to use JUnit 4 in our Maven based projects we have two choices. The first is to use JUnit4TestAdapter as illustrated in this post. The second [...]

Posted 16 May 2007 † spiros § JUnit § Maven ‡ Comments (4) °

Greek Java Champions

Panos and Paris, the JHUG’s JUG leaders, are now Java Champions.
Congrats guys, keep it up!

Posted 03 April 2007 † spiros § JHUG ‡ Comments (1) °

commons.testing

For me, this is the best April fool’s joke for this year.

Posted 01 April 2007 † spiros § OOP ‡ Comments (0) °

Implementing Seam style @Logger injection with Spring

Seam provides a number of features to help programmers with the tedious but necessary logging. One of them is the @Logger annotation that is used to inject a Seam Log instance into a Seam component. For example instead of writing:

private Log log = LogFactory.getLog(MyClass.class);

you can write:

@Logger private Log log;

and Seam will inject an appropriate logger. [...]

Posted 31 March 2007 † spiros § Spring Framework ‡ Comments (4) °

New features in Spring IDE 2.0M3

Spring IDE 2.0M3 was released and the springframework.org site writes about the long-awaited Spring Webflow support. Spring IDE now includes graphical and XML editors for Spring WebFlow.
I believe that this major new feature hides 3 very important new features that IMHO programmers will find more useful, since people working with Spring spend more time editing [...]

Posted 15 March 2007 † spiros § Spring Framework § Tools ‡ Comments (1) °