Maven has a dependency scope, provided, that indicates that the dependency should not be in the archive. Gradle does not provide such a scope out of the box, but it’s easy enough to add. The following Gradle build demonstrates a very bare-bones Java EE 7 web application setup:

For those interested, here’s a quick and simple project to get you started using Gradle and Scala together:

You can run the app using the custom task run:

Remember to add --daemon for faster startup times for your Gradle builds.

Have fun!

Many know Arquillian as a great integration, functional, acceptance testing platform. Until recently, I thought of it solely as a great Java EE tool, but an Arquillian extension, known as Droidium, allows you to use Arquillian to help drive your Android testing. I spent some time tonight trying to get it set up for Cub Tracker and thought I’d share what (little) I have so far.

In the last post, we took a look at the server side of our OAuth2 system. In this post, we’ll take a quick look at the unit tests that will act as TheUser.

When implementing web site security, OAuth2 almost always comes up. We’ve had requests to implement OAuth2 in the GlassFish REST interface, and, it turns out, I have a similar need on a personal project. Looking at the spec, though, OAuth2 can be pretty daunting. Fortunately, you don’t need to understand it all, and Apache has a project, Oltu (nee Amber) that handles most of the implementation.

I’ve been spending some time with the Play Framework recently, and one of my first questions was, "Can I deploy this to an app server?", to which the answer is "No. Play is its own container". That (to be honest) somewhat disappointing answer reminded me of some discussions I recenlty saw but mostly ignored about "containerless frameworks". I’m afraid I’m going to have to let my dumb hang out (as my dad used to love to say) and confess that I guess I don’t get it. :)

For those wanting to backup their data, there are a myriad of commercial products, ranging from economical to absurdly expensive, from basic to extremely flexible and robust. Depending on your needs, though, you need not spend any money at all to get a pretty poiwerful backup system. In this entry, I’ll show how I backup my workstation using duplicity.

You may or may not have noticed ([1], [2]), but I’ve been spending a lot of time with AsciiDoc lately. While it might simply be a case of noticing what you’re thinking about, it seems the tool has been gaining more and more momentum. From AsciiDoctor to Awestruct, to Jason Porter’s Maven plugin, it seems to be everywhere. At any rate, in need of a break, I wondered if I could leverage AsciiDoctor’s Java integration library and JavaFX to make a simple editor. It’s basic and ugly, but here’s what I have.

While I love my Android devices, one thing that has always bugged me is syncing music with them. Sure, there are some apps that claim to be able to do it, but I’ve never found one that will do what it says and be a decent music player at the same time (perhaps someone out there can point me to a good one). For the most part, then, I’ve settled on Banshee (which, as far as I can tell, doesn’t sync, but is a decent player¹). Here, then, is my very manual process for syncing music.

In case you missed the announcement, I recently migrated my blog from Wordpress to Awestruct, the static site generation tool written by several JBoss engineers. As can be expected with a tool this new, there were some bumps and bruises along the way, but I managed — with lots of help — to make it to production with my efforts. To be a good open source citizen, then, I thought I’d explain my process and try to pass on what I learned.