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Next version of “buildozer” is out.
Buildozer is a tool for simplifying transitive builds on modules with SNAPSHOT dependencies. It especially simplifies propagation of code changes from changed module(s) to those depending on them, while skipping builds of unaffected ones.

Installation instructions are available here. Project main web is http://buildbox.sf.net/buildozer.

Changes since version 1.0.0-alpha-4

New features:

• FAILED modules are not rebuilt unless changed (or their dependencies changed)
• added command “doall” pretending that all modules have changed = full rebuild

Fixes:

• stanalone jar installer – fixed NPE in artifact downloading
• return nonzero exit code on failure

Improvements:

• log file and failure indicator stored in subdir of repository’s installation target
• added option –version, both in standard and in xml format
• simplified the way of listing installed artifact of a module (not using special mojo on mvn commandline)

Feedback

Users can share their experience

• on Buildbox Google Group
• on the facebook Buildozer group

or contribute any other way – some hints are here.

The cross-platform development tool suite “bbx”, has been recently released in version 1.0.0-alpha-5.
It contains several development-oriented tools, supporting especially Maven builds:

• BuildoZER (zer) – a tool to perform transitive builds of Maven modules
• colorado – simple log output colorizer (Linux only for now)
• zcd – to navigate through directories by module name (artifactId from pom.xml)
• bbx – an extensible ant frontend with argument parsing, pom-based dependency support and more

It is still an alpha-quality release, but the tools are already very handy.

StrictLogging is a log wrapper forcing you to have your log messages catalogized. Read more at http://code.google.com/p/buildbox/wiki/StrictLogging

From changes.xml:

• StrictCatalog: StrictCatalog changed from annotation to normal interface to make use of type safety
• addition in Severity: new severity “TRACE” for temporary logging
• addition in strictlogging-javalogapi : implemented wrapper for standard java logging api
• addition in strictlogging-log4j : Log4J api wrapper isolated to separate module
• addition in PrintWriterLogger : implemented as the most lightweight yet quite complete logger
• warning in strictlogging : started at buildbox in new package and with some class renames