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Webservices with CXF and Maven
I really like the Apache CXF Webservices framework. It works really well and is very programmer friendly. And when combined with Maven dependencies and packaging are a breeze as well. As I use this combination quite a lot, I keep explaining how to get this working (its easy, really, you only have to know how :) So I decided to write a tutorial. Learn more..
The Great JavaDoc War
We're using Checkstyle to enforce that every public method that is not a getter and setter must have a JavaDoc comment. However, our developers didn't see the point of writing JavaDoc for all these methods. After a period we now refer to as the 'Great JavaDoc War' we came to the conclusion to make Checkstyle smarter and built a check that uses the Non Commenting Source Statements algorithm to determine if a method should have JavaDoc or not. Learn more..