February 2011 – Celinio's technical blog : learning and adapting

Start/stop Jonas with Maven and Cargo. And deploy too.

February 22, 2011 by Celinio

I found very little information on what to add exactly to the POM.xml file to start/stop Jonas with Maven and Cargo.
So here is a quick example with a basic webapp application.

[Tutorial] Create a PDF document with Maven and iText

February 20, 2011 by Celinio

Here is a quick way to start learning how to use the open-source library iText to generate PDF documents.
I start with the archetype maven-archetype-quickstart (number 101, which is the default archetype), an archetype which contains a sample Maven project.

[Tutorial] Start and stop JBoss with the Cargo plugin.

February 19, 2011 by Celinio

In this video tutorial, I show how to start / stop JBoss 6 using the plugin Cargo for Maven. And to deploy an archive.
In the previous tutorial, I created and imported the project in Eclipse with the m2Eclipse plugin.

[Tutorial] Create a Maven project and import it with m2Eclipse

February 19, 2011February 19, 2011 by Celinio

In this video tutorial, I show how to create a Maven project under DOS. Then how to import it to Eclipse with m2Eclipse.

[Tutorial] Create, compile and test a project with Maven

February 14, 2011February 13, 2011 by Celinio

Here is a first video tutorial about Maven, under DOS.
First i create a project based on the maven-archetype-quickstart archetype with the following command and arguments :

mvn archetype:generate 
-DgroupId=com.company.celinio 
-DartifactId=FirstTuto 
-DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart 
-DinteractiveMode=false

[Tutorial] RESTful web services with CXF

November 6, 2011February 3, 2011 by Celinio

This is a short follow-up to a previous post about Web Services with CXF.

Developing RESTful web services with CXF is quite easy. Here I quickly explore 2 ways to do it.

COBOL-IT developer studio

October 14, 2011February 2, 2011 by Celinio

I have not done any COBOL programming for more than 15 years. The last time was in 1995, during my studies.
We used Microfocus Visual COBOL back then, I believe.
So anyways, the other day I heard about Cobol-IT Developer Studio, a free COBOL development workshop based on Eclipse !

[Tutorial] WSDL to Java with Apache CXF and soapUI

February 2, 2011February 1, 2011 by Celinio

The WSDL2java command generates JAX-WS compliant Java code for the services that are defined in the WSDL document.
This is known as the Top-Down approach (contract first, based on an existing WSDL file).