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This is video is quite recent, but already very popular. It’s a parody of Lady Gaga songs, about Java. Looks like Oracle is gonna benefit of the Java wave even though they already declared themselves as bad asses, more interested on money and control than on technology. Java rocks, and ever will. Despite Oracle.

Converting JavaBeans to XML and viceversa is quite a common task, and there are tons of libraries around for this purpose. But I always like to use what is already available in the JRE, avoiding dependencies as much as possible. In the past I and Simone developed a rest API using the JSR57 serialization, that [...]

Local repository modules are useful when your project depends on some jars that cannot be found in any public or proprietary repository. In such cases, you have two choices: importing the jar in your local repository manually before running the build, as suggested in the mvn faq, or make your build process do it for [...]