I had to debug Mule’s build for the upcoming 1.4.1 release a bit, especially the packaging of the JCA distribution. I usually use Zipper to open archives, that’s why I wrote it in the first place. It turns out that some file extensions are ambiguous, e …

In more complicated Maven builds you might package your tests along with your normal code to use in other modules (see plugin doc to the maven-jar-plugin how to do it). For normal development you might not want to execute the unit tests every time you build. Compiling the source with …

When working on Mule’s i18n support I stubled over a hidden gem in java. The ResourceBundle’s getResourceBundle method will build a candidate name and look for a class with this name in the runtime before resorting to loading properties files. I’d like to play around with this …