Tuesday, 16 October 2007

Knowledge does not come Easy

Every time I hear consultant talking about some piece of software I often have the feeling that I am screwed over because many of them don't know what they are talking about because they never had to bang their head against the code and trying to understand the what actually is happening. For the last few months I was in a similar situation dealing and speaking about ESB and ServiceMix even though I never sold it as the greatest since the famous sliced bread. This week I finally found the time to delve into ServiceMix's code base and trying to really understand how it work  keep on reading here

Posted by schaefera at 6:00 PM in Madplanet.com Inc.

Ohh, for Christ's Sake -- F*** Maven 2: Part II

My Woes with Maven 2 don't seem to stop. Today I downloaded ServiceMix 3.1.2 and tried to build it from the source. Well, after Maven started to build it finally aborted with a strange error inside the ServiceMix Script component:

[INFO] Trace
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: edu/emory/mathcs/backport/java/util/concurrent/atomic/AtomicBoolean
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:2328)
at java.lang.Class.getConstructors(Class.java:1446)
at com.thoughtworks  keep on reading here

Posted by schaefera at 5:12 PM in Annoying