The Loop

Here’s an interesting video that explains ESME which runs on the lift framework, backend by SAP NetWeaver. Very, very cool.

Enjoy!

I recently read this article and realised that I had never blogged about the resin plugin that works perfectly with lift for development and deployment.

Heres what you need to add to your pom.xml

<build>
   ...
   <finalName>${project.name}</finalName>
   ...
    <!-- resin plugin -->
      <plugin>
        <groupId>com.caucho</groupId>
        <artifactId>resin-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.1.6</version>
        <configuration>
          <contextPath>/</contextPath>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    ...
</build>

<pluginRepositories>
...
<pluginRepository>
  <id>caucho</id>
  <name>Caucho</name>
  <url>http://caucho.com/m2</url>
</pluginRepository>
...
</pluginRepositories>

Note, the final name var is important, as thats what resin uses to point at. Dont worry tho, as lift already has a name element so provided you haven’t deleted it, your laughing.

Next, to boot the server, just do:

mvn resin:run

That should be it! Enjoy!

My appologies; I hardly ever blow my own trumpet on this blog, but I just cant let this one pass without a good old toot of the proverbial horn.

Today I joined the lift committers. That might not sound much, but when you think that lift will be the next Ruby on Rails size phenomenon to hit the development community, thats pretty dang awesome.

I shall toot no more – respect to David and the rest of the other guys on lift core… you freaking rock!