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Last week Sonar announced their new version 2.8 with a few new features and bug fixes. The main new feature is the support of custom code review. Crucible and Review board are another alternative code review system. Sonar come across with code coverage and review in one system, which is easy to maintain with small effort. As usual sonar administrator must create users to assign tasks and collaborations. Sonar provide LDAP plugin which enables the delegation of Sonar authentication to an external system. Currently LDAP plugin supports LDAP and Active directory. In our corporation we are using active directory and first of all i tried to configure the LADP plugin. LDAP plugin wiki fully describes the installation of the plugin with LDAP system but poorly with AD. With some effort with my boss we were able to configure the plugin with our AD system. Follows i am sharing the configuration: #------------------- # Sonar LDAP Plugin #------------------- # IMPORTANT : before activation,...

Apache maven is one of the popular tool for building and managing java projects. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project's build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information. However when you have projects with multiple modules, it follows some issue when you compiling your project. One of them is incremental building, which means when you updates your project from the version control, you have to build the entire system by command mvn clean install. Consider the following maven project structure: IncrementalBuild |_ _ test-api |_ _ test-api-impl |_ _ test-donothing where module test-api-impl dependent on module test-api. Whenever we will make some change on module test-api, we have to recompile and build the module test-api-impl. If we will enter the command mvn install module test-api-impl will not get the updated version from the module test-api. You have to run command mvn clean install which will rebuild the...