Java Magazine, Jan/Feb 2017

ORACLE COM JAVAMAGAZINE JANUARY FEBRUARY 2017 21 tools sumption still needs to be worked out in some dialects The lessons learned are brought back to the core Maven project where a separation of this consumption POM from the build POM might provide a path to evolve the native XML POM format in a future version of Maven that wont break backward compatibility for already published artifacts A next step the JRuby community has taken is the creation of a native wrapper for Maven It allows you to use the rmvn command which automatically includes the Ruby extension of Maven or to run Maven from within a Ruby script see Listing 8 Listing 8 require ruby maven RubyMaven exec version Conclusion Interest in and adoption of Polyglot for Maven have been rising since its inception a couple of years ago It is slowly spreading into the open source community and into enterprises By providing support for POM files that dont rely only on XML new ways of expressing builds that are clearer and easier to write are now possible Take a look at Polyglot for Maven yourself and please do provide some feedback article Jason van Zyl is the founder of the Apache Maven project and many other successful open source projects He started The Central Repository the largest artifact exchange hub for the open source community and he leads the development tooling and developer support team at a Fortune 500 company bringing the results to the open source community at large Manfred Moser is an Apache Maven committer and plugin developer He has trained and helped thousands of Maven users Moser supports van Zyl as a trainer author and developer advocate user groups THE CHICAGO JUG The Chicago Java Users Group CJUG was started by Philip McGlauchlin in 1995 and has grown to nearly 2000 members in 2016 It is one of the largest JUGs in the United States The current group of oficers includes Java authors speakers open source project leads members of the JCP the Apache Software Foundation and a Java Champion CJUGs current focus is on expanding the contributor base to the Java ecosystem in Chicago To accomplish this CJUG has been running an Adopt a JSR program for the past two years The program focuses on JSR 366 Java EE 8 and Java 9 The effort is spearheaded by Josh Juneau and Bob Paulin This year the program featured a quarterly call in discussion CJUG also supports membership via an online Slack community called the Chicago Tech on Slack CJUG has taken a unique approach to sponsorship by constantly moving the meetup to different Chicago companies This approach means that any developer can experience a broad cross section of Chicago companies just by attending CJUGs bimonthly meetings While CJUG attracts name speakers its focus is on developing local speaking talent via quarterly lightning talks The groups current community leader is Java Champion Freddy Guime who started the Java OffHeap podcast to provide current news and interviews with Java thought leaders CJUG is always looking for new contributors to join and help continue the mission of making Chicago a great place to be a Java developer