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At one of my customers when we create a new release of our application (consisting of several WAR files) we have to supply one zip-file with all the WAR files in it. Also a zip file containing the compiled Jasper reports must be added to it. Although this can be done by hand, it is [...]

Like I posted before I am currently working on the transition from Ant to Maven to build and package our application. One of the tasks that is performed by Ant is compiling the Jasper Reports (from the .jrxml files to the .jasper ones). Of course there is a plugin for this task: the jasperreports-maven-plugin.
You can [...]

For one of my current projects I am changing the build process for our application from Ant to Maven. I think this is becoming a quite common change nowadays (at least it’s the third project in a rather short period I am involved with this change). And although Maven has its characteristics, I am still [...]

In my former post (here) I described how to combine Spring WS with StAX parsing the SOAP messages. I ended with generating the WSDL as a test and said you could use Soap UI for testing the web service.
Well, I did. And I was running into the following error when I had deployed my web [...]

As I have posted before we are using XFire to implement our web service. Unfortunately, we are running into some serious issues with the framework, so we decided to look after another implementation. Since XFire is no longer supported by the community (or at least at a very low profile) and 'replaced' by CXF, we [...]

Since I have been using Maven for some years now, I found it was time to post a way to consistently setup a Maven project with nested module in Eclipse. At most projects until now I
just played around with Eclipse to get the setup correctly.
This is how I do it now:

In our project we use the JSF 1.2 Sun Reference Implementation as web layer. Although I find JSF much easier to work with then with the good old Struts, I am still missing some features in the Sun RI. These features are available in other JSF implementations (Oracle ADF Faces for instance). The most important [...]

In this blog I'll show you how you can create a WebService of your EJB3 objects by using anotations. I will also show you how to build and deploy the package with Maven2. Let's start with the initial situation.
I have installed JBoss 4.2.1 and Maven2. In my settings.xml of Maven2 I have set a property [...]

As I wrote before I am currently building EJB3/ JSF1.2 applications which I build and deploy with Maven2. Last time I was building my web project when suddenly I got a Maven error, stating:

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Compilation failure
Failure executing javac, but could not parse the error:
An exception has occurred in the compiler (1.5.0_09). [...]

As you might have noticed in my earlier posts I am currently using Maven2 for building and deploying our applications. And although I am a big fan of it and I see a lot of advantages in using it, I sometimes would like to throw my PC out of the window because it is driving [...]