I felt this classic line from Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven was appropriate to start off my review of Raven “the build tool for Java programs based on Rake and Ruby Gems”. Now that my eyes have been opened to the world of using dynamic scripting languages to build Java projects I can safely […]
Quoth the raven, Nevermore.
August 8th, 2007 · No Comments
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Build Tool X vs Build Tool Y
July 31st, 2007 · No Comments
We finished our intial proof of concept work for four build tools at work. The build tools were Maven 2, Ant with Ivy, Raven and Buildr. In the next series of post I would like to give my perspective on the two tools I reviewed (Raven and Buildr) in comparison to what I […]
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Alternatives to Ant
July 22nd, 2007 · No Comments
A very exciting thing happened recently at my office. I was given the go ahead to do a proof of concept build process using Ruby (Sica if you are reading this calm down and enjoy your new baby!). The task was to use two exciting projects in our repository, and build them. […]
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