This is an old post. I have long since moved on to Maven as described here

The JSecurity team had a recent discussion on whether or not to use Maven 2 or Ant+Ivy moving forward. At the end of the day, I didn’t really care that much about which system we used, but [...]

Groovy is by far my favorite scripting language, since it leverages and integrates with all the Java stuff I use (applications, tools, server software, etc). It is just as expressive and powerful as Ruby, Python, etc., but feels a little simpler or cleaner, depending on the comparison.

Here are two fantastic resources in the ‘Cookbook’ [...]

This post outlines how to re-create a subversion repository after a total failure or loss (disk overwritten, disk crash, accidentally deleted, etc) when you have no repository backups and only developers’ working copies. If you’ve lost your SVN server and have no backups of your repository, and you don’t want to do manual per-file copying [...]