AsciiDoc is a great way to write technical documentation. It is text based, can be committed and versionned in your VSC with your project, has a rich syntax, has a huge ecosystem, integrates with several tools (such as PlantUML that I love) and, if there is still something missing, you can use extensions or create your own. And if you use the asciidoctor-maven-plugin to automatically generate … Continue reading Configuring the AsciiDoctor Maven Plugin
For those of you who have followed the JPA 2.0 specification, you might have come across the new Criteria API. The main idea of this new API is to be able to write a JPQL query using an object-oriented way (through a rich API) instead of a String. For example, if you want to return the list of all customers who are called John, you … Continue reading JPA 2.0 Criteria API with Maven and EclipseLink
Sometimes you write a blog to express an idea, to ask some feedback from the community, to share a very nice trick… or because you always forget something and want to write it down so you can remember later on. That’s the reason of this post. I never remember how to use the maven-ear-plugin, so I’m writing it down. There is something funny with Maven … Continue reading Because I always forget how to use maven-ear-plugin
In my project, we use Maven to compile, build, package and deploy our application to JBoss 4.3. Every works fine. But each time a new developer comes along, or when we need to install a new server, we always have to remember to deploy the datasource and copy the MySQL JDBC Driver to JBoss. Nothing too complicated, but we tend to forget it. The file … Continue reading Copying resources to JBoss with Maven
