Articles, notes and random thoughts on Software Development and Technology
Apparently the current feedback is suggesting that this new tool set, which when released will be called Java Studio Creator, will be rich good enough to entice developers currently using Eclipse based tools back to NetBeans.
This is suggesting that the new development tool may still be based on NetBeans, which may or may not be a good thing.
The Apache website has an interesting build and project management tool/framework called ‘Mavern’ which is fast becoming popular for a number of Open Source projects.
OnJava.com have an introductory article about the framework on their site.
Mavern automates a lot of the project build tasks that are common to most large projects, including: code compilation, creating JavaDoc, running JUnit TestCases, performing code analysis and producing reports (code standard violations etc), and producing reports of version control repository activity and status.
Setup a crontab file which defines whe the task should run:
m h d M D /script
where:
| m | minute: 0-59 |
| h | hour: 0-23 |
| d | day of the month: 1-31 |
| M | month of the year: 1-12 |
| D | day of the week, Sunday-0, 0-6 |
| /script | the script to execute |
Values that are not relevant can be replaced with a ‘*” character.
Examples:
Run scriptA at 1:00 am:
* 1 * * * /scriptA
Run scriptB at every 15 minutes past the hour:
15 * * * * /scriptB
Run scriptC on the hour and every 30 minutes past the hour:
0,30 * * * * /scriptC
Run scriptD at 10,11 and 12, every Monday:
* 10-12 * * 1 /scriptC
To install the crontab setings, run:
crontab filename
To list the current crontab settings:
crontab -l
To format a floppy disk with EXT2 linux format, make sure the floppy is not mounted, then use:
mke2fs /dev/fd0
(This assumes that /dev/fd0 is your floppy drive)