This blog is about making software even simpler - hence the name Simplericity.

You can reach me at eirik at simplericity.com

• Make your war file executable with the Jetty Console Maven plugin
  A while back I made a little Maven plugin that takes a war file and makes it executable. With executable I mean that it embeds a Jetty servlet container. Running java -jar myapp.war will deploy your war with the embedded Jetty instance. This provides a ...
• Back from a fantastic Java Posse Roundup 2009
  After a 30 hours, 5 flights travel, last night I finally made it home from the Java Posse Roundup in lovely Crested Butte, Colorado. After sleeping for 13 hours I'm now feeling quite good. Although I suffered jet lag, got a cold and had altitude induced ...
• Slf4j on Glassfish: When smart ideas collide
  Have you ever noticed how two ideas can seem really smart one by one, but not all that great when combined? I recently tried to install Nexus, the excellent Maven repository manager from Sonatype. (And by the way: Every organization using Maven needs a ...

• Re: Make your war file executable with the Jetty Console Maven plugin
  Any progress on getting this into Maven Central?
• Re: Make your war file executable with the Jetty Console Maven plugin
  Never mind this last comment about default browser, my environment was screwed up.
• Re: Make your war file executable with the Jetty Console Maven plugin
  It would also be nice if it started the default browser instead of IE