Ever need to determine what versions of a specific Maven dependency are available in a public repository? Or more importantly, determine if a dependency even exists in a public repository? If so, then javacio.us, a free, subscription based service available to anyone with a Google account can be used to help quickly and easily resolve maven dependencies.

Usage is simple:

1. Search Google for the name of the dependency (e.g. concurrent pom) and you will get a list of all groups in which the dependency is under a public repository.
2. Select the specific group you require
3. Select the version you require

And that’s it! Now you can simply copy the coordinates and the dependency has been resolved.

While there are certainly other services available which do more or less the same thing (e.g. Maven Repository Browser, etc.), the simplicity of being able to just search from Google is rather convenient.

For the past 4 years or so I have provided quite a few AS3 APIs as Open Source to the Flex Community, via my blog. These APIs can typically be found at the Open Source AS3 APIs page however, the page is basically just a URI to a series of arbitrarily added AS3 source classes. It was originally intended to simply serve as a convenient location to access the source, and it had always been my intention to eventually break out all of these APIs into seperate SVN projects.

So with that being said I am finally in the process of making the structural changes I had originally envisioned. Moving forward I will begin the process of creating seperate SVN projects for these Open Source APIs; with the primary goal being to provide practical APIs that only require minimal (if any) dependencies on additional libraries, complete test coverage via Flex Unit 4 and Mavenized builds.

The first project to move over to the new project structure will be the AS3 collections project as the classes in this package, specifically HashMap, have proven to provide the most value according to community feedback.

So stayed tuned!

Sonatype recently released the latest version of Flex Mojos, which is now at version 3.2.0.

This latest update is a big step forward for Flex / AIR Developers managing their project builds and dependencies with Maven 2 as the updates are focused around unit testing support improvements; including support for headless mode on Linux based CI servers and, more importantly, a fix for running automated unit tests in multi-module builds; which was a big head scratcher for me about a month ago!

Below is a list of what I feel are the most significant updates in 3.2.0:

You can view the complete list of release notes here.