September 23rd, 2010 | by akoelewijn | published in software development
I lost quite some time trying to get Sonatype Nexus to use NTLM authentication but couldn’t get it to work. As far i understand JDK 6 has support for NTLM authentication, but because Nexus is using commons-httpclient version 3.1 it doesn’t work. Anyway, the workaround that finally fixed this situation is by installing cntlm. Cntlm [...]
March 9th, 2010 | by akoelewijn | published in java, oss, software development
Nexus is a maven repository manager. You can use Nexus to host your own maven repository for artifact created in your company, or for caching external artifacts. Getting started with Nexus is pretty easy. Download the application. The package contains a webserver, so you don’t have to have a java container running. Simply unpack the [...]
March 4th, 2010 | by akoelewijn | published in java, oss, soa
I ran into the following problem yesterday while building a rest service using resteasy: the code would compile ok, but the unit tests wouldn’t run. I got the following exception in the output of the unit tests: The problem is caused by the javeee-api dependency in my maven pom. As described here, the following dependency [...]
February 28th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in soa
Groovy 1.6 makes it really easy to quickly try out new frameworks. Dependency management build into the language allows you to write simple scripts, all required libraries will be downloaded automatically when you run it. Here’s an example using Apache Camel. This script can simply be run from the command prompt. Groovy will compile it, [...]
