Maven Copy Plugin

This (new?) Maven 'copy' plugin: http://evgeny-goldin.com/wiki/Copy-maven-plugin, seems to be a useful tool to simplify some Maven projects. It seems to be a good way to using a minimal number of plugins for common tasks. This is not a deep review; I'm just blogging this as sort of a mental note.

But it could be used for the following problem: I recently learned a second way that the 'real' Maven and running under the Eclipse Maven plugin differs, in that resource files in /src/man/java are copied; but not so with Maven defaults. (The other difference I know of is that Eclipse has only one classpath, the same for both src/test and src/main. Fertile ground for bad imports.) It's easy to add with a standard plugin, but if you have many such small tasks, then possibly this 'copy' plugin will be better than a bunch of disparate plugins. Maven is verbose enough, I think.

Curl Is Great

Trying some HTTP code I've written. A redirect works in Chrome, but not in Safari, and not in Firefox.

What gives?

The developer tools in Safari and Firefox are not up to the job. I have some potential posts on the webkit developer tools queued up, so let's leave it at that for now.

So, after a while, my thoughts turn to telnet. But before I get to try it, I get a better idea, as it would turn out: trying the 'curl' command. (The headline should perhaps read cURL, for the capitalization pedants.)

And this message is written to the terminal:

* no chunk, no close, no size. Assume close to signal end

Aha! Yes of course. This is what the words 'good feedback' can mean.

You just need to give curl the '-v' option.