Abusing Maven For Fun and Profit : (Near) Zero-Admin Deployments

Ok, I can't promise you profit, but hopefully you'll have fun. Maven 2 introduces a number of new features (including that performance feature) that make it a swell project management tool for development.

Come hear about how we can abuse Maven to manage distributed deployment scenarios before the Modules JSR is done.

This talk will introduce Maven 2 and what it has to offer as a team-oriented development and project management tool. Then we will take a strange turn and discuss how the MavenEmbedder API can be used as a lightweight, low-admin deployment mechanism for self-updating, distributed Java installations.

This is a very example-driven talk. We'll look at lots of code but you'll be able to walk away with a fresh take on how to roll out a new versions of entire applications, bug fixes, security patches or new features with very little effort.

About Brian Sletten

Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. His experience has spanned many industries including retail, banking, online games, defense, finance, hospitality and health care. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and lives in Auburn, CA. He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, AI/ML, data science, 3D graphics, visualization, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. He is also a rabid reader, devoted foodie and has excellent taste in music. If pressed, he might tell you about his International Pop Recording career.

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