Dependency management
This talk covers the difficult subject of dependency management and uses the Savant open source framework to illustrate how to tackle some of the more difficult problems of dependency management. During this talk we'll cover the basics of dependency management, software versioning, compatibility, upgrading, and much more.
Dependency management is a difficult problem that all projects must deal with. As projects contain more dependencies and start leveraging tools that providing transitive dependencies, this task becomes even more difficult. There are only a few tools available that providing dependency management including Maven 2, Ivy and Savant. This presentation will use the Savant tool in order to illustrate dependency management and how to manage it.
This talk will cover these topics:
- Dependency management
- Software versioning
- Compatibility
- Savant project files
- Dependency resolution
- Integration builds
- Full releases
If you build software in any form and don't currently use dependency management or sometimes run into issues with dependency management, this talk it for you. It will cover all the basics of dependency management as well as more complex topics such as software compatibility and integration builds.
Attendees don't need to know anything about dependency management or have any knowledge of the tools available in order to attend this session. However, if you do understand dependency management and already use one of the tools, but still have troubles with dependency management, this talk can still provide additional insight into this complex problem.
About Brian Pontarelli
Brian Pontarelli is the founder and president of Inversoft, a Colorado based software company. In addition to Inversoft, Brian works on many open source projects including Struts, Savant and Java.net commons. In the past, he was the president of the Chicago Java User Group and an enterprise architect for Orbitz.
Brian has been programming for many years and works primarily with Java and Ruby. He has published various articles in both print and online magazines about Java, J2EE security, Java Server Faces and NIO.
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