Wednesday December 10, 2008 12:00PM W92-106A Back Bay
For our December meeting, we will be having a Maven 2 workshop. The plan is take a very simple Web application project and build it using Maven 2. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop, download the files, and follow along. The goal is to give people the basic information they need to start using Maven 2 in a hands-on way.
While anyone can come to the workshop, if you want to enjoy the hands-on experience, you'll need a laptop with Java, Maven 2, and Tomcat installed. For those who don't have laptops or can't get these components set up we'll try to pair you with someone else.
- This is the Java Users Group, so hopefully you have Java already, if not you can get it on the JavaWeb site. The demo is using 1.5 but it is fairly easy to change the demo if you want to use 1.4 or 1.6.
- Maven 2 download and installation instructions can be found on the Download Mavenpage.
- You can get Tomcat from the TomcatWeb site. 5.5.x or 6.x should be fine.
We will not spend any substantial meeting time helping people get these components installed, the point is to actually use Maven 2. Please make sure you have these components in place before the meeting. In addition, here are some files specifically for the workshop:
If you can you may also wish to download these files before the meeting.