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Gum 0.8.0 is out!

Posted on by aalmiray

Whoa, 2 Gum releases in the same month? I’m having so much fun working with and on Gum that I just couldn’t resist posting another release. Last time I mentioned that Gum is capable of launching JBang with explicit and implicit targets; in the case of implicit a strict file order was to be followed: .java, .jsh, and .jar. Well no more, Gum 0.8.0 let’s you configure the resolution order as you deem necessary. The configuration may be per directory (project) or global. Which brings me to the second major feature added to this release, how do you know which Read More

Gum 0.7.2 delivers more bang for your buck

Posted on by aalmiray

A bang, like in JBang! That’s right, JBang is the new kid on the block in the Java command line tool space. Initially taking advantage of JEP-330 that enhances the Java launcher to support single source files, JBang builds on top of that idea and adds dependency resolution, JShell integration, launch executable JARs, launch scripts from trusted URLs, and a few other goodies. In other words, JBang is not constrained by JEP-330 (which requires Java 11) as it also let’s you run scripts with Java 8. Taking a hint from Gradle and Maven, JBang also adds a wrapper to help Read More

Gum 0.4.0 latest tricks

Posted on by aalmiray

Gum 0.4.0 is out and it comes with a few goodies! If you’re like me you may see yourself switching between Maven and Gradle projects, a lot. This constant switching makes it very likely that I’ll mess up the command invocation and send Maven goals to a Gradle project, or send Gradle tasks to a Maven project. This results in a wasted JVM iteration as the command fails. But what if there was a way to make it work given certain mappings? What if Maven’s compile goal could be translated into Gradle’s classes or viceversa? What if these mappings were Read More

Jumping into Go

Posted on by aalmiray

I finally did it. I jumped into Go and I like it. Many years ago (7 or so?) a dear friend of mine told me about Go and that I should give it a try. He did warn me that the language felt like Java of the olden days, back when Java was 1.0, but despite this Go was a pretty good language. I did give Go a try a few times in the past, even presented a couple of times (at work and abroad) about the similarities and differences between Java and Go from a Java developer’s POV, yet Read More

Gum: the Gradle/Maven wrapper

Posted on by aalmiray

I’m happy to announce the immediate availability of Gum, a Gradle/Maven wrapper written in Go. Gum is inspired on the popular gdub script by Doug Borg, which was ported to Go by Sten Roger Sandvik some time ago. The main difference from Sten’s version is that Gum also supports the Maven wrapper, coming up as part of Maven core 3.7! The basic idea behind Gum is to prefer the tool wrapper over the plain tool, if the wrapper is configured. It also allows you invoke the build tool from any place withing the project’s codebase. There are a few additions Read More

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