[m2book-dev] [Status] Update of week - 24th-30th of October 2005

[Vincent Massol]

Hi everyone,

Here's what I've worked on during the past week:

* We've agreed that I'll focus my work on developing the m2 stuff that is
necessary for writing the J2EE chapter. Thus my time will now be split
between:
- gathering agreement/best practices on J2EE
- coding what's required. See http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGBOOK-1 for
what I'm currently working on.
- writing the J2EE chapter

* I've continued gathering J2EE best practices and discussing them on the
list.

* I've continued gathering information about how best implement a m2
database plugin. I've blogged about it and I've found a framework that seems
nice for the job: octopus.

* Worked on the Cargo plugin for m2. It has progressed quite nicely and it's
covering almost all use cases. I'm currently working on implementing
functional tests for it and this is taking me a bit of time as there's no
agreed conventions on the m2 testing strategy when it comes to
integration/functional tests. Thus I've started working on that too which
will be useful for Jason's chapter 2.

* On the m2book wiki:
- Fixed self-registration which now works fine
- Fixed RSS feed which now work with basic authentication. See
- Continue adding contributors to the team list on
http://m2book.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Team. I think we should probably
start sending the welcome email to them and listing what we expect from them
in that email.

* I've also worked on the Clover m2 plugin and it is now working fine and
ready for release (still missing a bit of doc that I'll add at the time of
release). I still cannot release it because there's some issue in Maven
core. See http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-1335.

* Lots of other small things on m2...

* I haven't actually started writing the J2EE chapter proper yet as I have
been looking for solutions for fully building a J2EE project. There are
still bits that are missing. I wanted to be sure I had planted all the seeds
before starting the actual writing. I'll probably start it this coming week.

* Each week passing I realize that there are lots of things missing in m2
that makes it difficult to write about (especially if you want to write a
full story covering all angles). Perhaps even more importantly nobody has
really used m2 on real projects and doing the exercise on the book makes it
obvious how much is missing in term of conventions/best practices but also
little details in the existing code. We'll get there but writing this book
is going to be difficult for this reason (at least for me) compared to my
previous books (they were on solid ground with 3-4 years of feedback on the
tools used). But we'll succeed and in the process we'll make m2 better! :-)

* I've actually spent about 4 men/days instead of the planned 2 and I'll do
the same this week.

Thanks
-Vincent

[John Casey-5]

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MNG-1335 is now fixed. One less roadblock. ;)

- -john

Vincent Massol wrote:
| Hi everyone,
|
| Here's what I've worked on during the past week:
|
| * We've agreed that I'll focus my work on developing the m2 stuff that is
| necessary for writing the J2EE chapter. Thus my time will now be split
| between:
| - gathering agreement/best practices on J2EE
| - coding what's required. See
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGBOOK-1 for
| what I'm currently working on.
| - writing the J2EE chapter
|
| * I've continued gathering J2EE best practices and discussing them on the
| list.
|
| * I've continued gathering information about how best implement a m2
| database plugin. I've blogged about it and I've found a framework that
seems
| nice for the job: octopus.
|
| * Worked on the Cargo plugin for m2. It has progressed quite nicely
and it's
| covering almost all use cases. I'm currently working on implementing
| functional tests for it and this is taking me a bit of time as there's no
| agreed conventions on the m2 testing strategy when it comes to
| integration/functional tests. Thus I've started working on that too which
| will be useful for Jason's chapter 2.
|
| * On the m2book wiki:
| - Fixed self-registration which now works fine
| - Fixed RSS feed which now work with basic authentication. See
| - Continue adding contributors to the team list on
| http://m2book.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Team. I think we should
probably
| start sending the welcome email to them and listing what we expect
from them
| in that email.
|
| * I've also worked on the Clover m2 plugin and it is now working fine and
| ready for release (still missing a bit of doc that I'll add at the time of
| release). I still cannot release it because there's some issue in Maven
| core. See http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-1335.
|
| * Lots of other small things on m2...
|
| * I haven't actually started writing the J2EE chapter proper yet as I have
| been looking for solutions for fully building a J2EE project. There are
| still bits that are missing. I wanted to be sure I had planted all the
seeds
| before starting the actual writing. I'll probably start it this coming
week.
|
| * Each week passing I realize that there are lots of things missing in m2
| that makes it difficult to write about (especially if you want to write a
| full story covering all angles). Perhaps even more importantly nobody has
| really used m2 on real projects and doing the exercise on the book
makes it
| obvious how much is missing in term of conventions/best practices but also
| little details in the existing code. We'll get there but writing this book
| is going to be difficult for this reason (at least for me) compared to my
| previous books (they were on solid ground with 3-4 years of feedback
on the
| tools used). But we'll succeed and in the process we'll make m2
better! :-)
|
| * I've actually spent about 4 men/days instead of the planned 2 and
I'll do
| the same this week.
|
| Thanks
| -Vincent
|
|
|
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[Vincent Massol]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Casey [mailto:jdcasey@...]
> Sent: mardi 1 novembre 2005 17:56
> To: dev@...
> Subject: Re: [m2book-dev] [Status] Update of week - 24th-30th of October
> 2005
>
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> MNG-1335 is now fixed. One less roadblock. ;)

Very cool, thanks John! That fixed the clover plugin. I can now release it.
Unfortunately it'll only run on Maven 2.0.1 or greater...

-Vincent

> Vincent Massol wrote:
> | Hi everyone,
> |
> | Here's what I've worked on during the past week:
> |
> | * We've agreed that I'll focus my work on developing the m2 stuff that
> is
> | necessary for writing the J2EE chapter. Thus my time will now be split
> | between:
> | - gathering agreement/best practices on J2EE
> | - coding what's required. See
> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGBOOK-1 for
> | what I'm currently working on.
> | - writing the J2EE chapter
> |
> | * I've continued gathering J2EE best practices and discussing them on
> the
> | list.
> |
> | * I've continued gathering information about how best implement a m2
> | database plugin. I've blogged about it and I've found a framework that
> seems
> | nice for the job: octopus.
> |
> | * Worked on the Cargo plugin for m2. It has progressed quite nicely
> and it's
> | covering almost all use cases. I'm currently working on implementing
> | functional tests for it and this is taking me a bit of time as there's
> no
> | agreed conventions on the m2 testing strategy when it comes to
> | integration/functional tests. Thus I've started working on that too
> which
> | will be useful for Jason's chapter 2.
> |
> | * On the m2book wiki:
> | - Fixed self-registration which now works fine
> | - Fixed RSS feed which now work with basic authentication. See
> | - Continue adding contributors to the team list on
> | http://m2book.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Team. I think we should
> probably
> | start sending the welcome email to them and listing what we expect
> from them
> | in that email.
> |
> | * I've also worked on the Clover m2 plugin and it is now working fine
> and
> | ready for release (still missing a bit of doc that I'll add at the time
> of
> | release). I still cannot release it because there's some issue in Maven
> | core. See http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-1335.
> |
> | * Lots of other small things on m2...
> |
> | * I haven't actually started writing the J2EE chapter proper yet as I
> have
> | been looking for solutions for fully building a J2EE project. There are
> | still bits that are missing. I wanted to be sure I had planted all the
> seeds
> | before starting the actual writing. I'll probably start it this coming
> week.
> |
> | * Each week passing I realize that there are lots of things missing in
> m2
> | that makes it difficult to write about (especially if you want to write
> a
> | full story covering all angles). Perhaps even more importantly nobody
> has
> | really used m2 on real projects and doing the exercise on the book
> makes it
> | obvious how much is missing in term of conventions/best practices but
> also
> | little details in the existing code. We'll get there but writing this
> book
> | is going to be difficult for this reason (at least for me) compared to
> my
> | previous books (they were on solid ground with 3-4 years of feedback
> on the
> | tools used). But we'll succeed and in the process we'll make m2
> better! :-)
> |
> | * I've actually spent about 4 men/days instead of the planned 2 and
> I'll do
> | the same this week.
> |
> | Thanks
> | -Vincent
> |
> |
> |
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[John Casey-5]

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yeah, not sure how to fix that otherwise...we'd have to do some sort of
interim release with a hacked MavenProject fix...something like a 2.0-1
or something.

I'm not opposed to doing that, but it sort of depends how fast we're
planning to do 2.0.1 whether this would be worthwhile.

- -j

Vincent Massol wrote:
|
|>-----Original Message-----
|>From: John Casey [mailto:jdcasey@...]
|>Sent: mardi 1 novembre 2005 17:56
|>To: dev@...
|>Subject: Re: [m2book-dev] [Status] Update of week - 24th-30th of October
|>2005
|>
| MNG-1335 is now fixed. One less roadblock. ;)
|
|
|> Very cool, thanks John! That fixed the clover plugin. I can now
release it.
|> Unfortunately it'll only run on Maven 2.0.1 or greater...
|
|> -Vincent
|
|
| Vincent Massol wrote:
| | Hi everyone,
| |
| | Here's what I've worked on during the past week:
| |
| | * We've agreed that I'll focus my work on developing the m2 stuff that
| is
| | necessary for writing the J2EE chapter. Thus my time will now be split
| | between:
| | - gathering agreement/best practices on J2EE
| | - coding what's required. See
| http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGBOOK-1 for
| | what I'm currently working on.
| | - writing the J2EE chapter
| |
| | * I've continued gathering J2EE best practices and discussing them on
| the
| | list.
| |
| | * I've continued gathering information about how best implement a m2
| | database plugin. I've blogged about it and I've found a framework that
| seems
| | nice for the job: octopus.
| |
| | * Worked on the Cargo plugin for m2. It has progressed quite nicely
| and it's
| | covering almost all use cases. I'm currently working on implementing
| | functional tests for it and this is taking me a bit of time as there's
| no
| | agreed conventions on the m2 testing strategy when it comes to
| | integration/functional tests. Thus I've started working on that too
| which
| | will be useful for Jason's chapter 2.
| |
| | * On the m2book wiki:
| | - Fixed self-registration which now works fine
| | - Fixed RSS feed which now work with basic authentication. See
| | - Continue adding contributors to the team list on
| | http://m2book.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Team. I think we should
| probably
| | start sending the welcome email to them and listing what we expect
| from them
| | in that email.
| |
| | * I've also worked on the Clover m2 plugin and it is now working fine
| and
| | ready for release (still missing a bit of doc that I'll add at the time
| of
| | release). I still cannot release it because there's some issue in Maven
| | core. See http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-1335.
| |
| | * Lots of other small things on m2...
| |
| | * I haven't actually started writing the J2EE chapter proper yet as I
| have
| | been looking for solutions for fully building a J2EE project. There are
| | still bits that are missing. I wanted to be sure I had planted all the
| seeds
| | before starting the actual writing. I'll probably start it this coming
| week.
| |
| | * Each week passing I realize that there are lots of things missing in
| m2
| | that makes it difficult to write about (especially if you want to write
| a
| | full story covering all angles). Perhaps even more importantly nobody
| has
| | really used m2 on real projects and doing the exercise on the book
| makes it
| | obvious how much is missing in term of conventions/best practices but
| also
| | little details in the existing code. We'll get there but writing this
| book
| | is going to be difficult for this reason (at least for me) compared to
| my
| | previous books (they were on solid ground with 3-4 years of feedback
| on the
| | tools used). But we'll succeed and in the process we'll make m2
| better! :-)
| |
| | * I've actually spent about 4 men/days instead of the planned 2 and
| I'll do
| | the same this week.
| |
| | Thanks
| | -Vincent
| |
| |
| |
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