This post is about some of the struggles I’ve had while dealing with configuring HTTP(s) proxy for docker daemon process. I note it here for myself as well as others who might run into this issue in future. People familiar with Docker will know that it has a process (called docker daemon) which is responsible for handling requests from a ...

Apache Ant 1.10.10 got released around a month back. Among the usual bug fixes, we added a new enhancement for the “junitlauncher” task. For those of you who haven’t used or know about “junitlauncher” task, it’s a new task we introduced a few years back to allow projects using Ant, to be able to use the new JUnit5 testing framework. ...

This week, we released 2.5.0 version of Apache Ivy. Apache Ivy is a build dependency manager that is integrated with the Apache Ant build tool. The download is available as usual at https://ant.apache.org/ivy/download.cgi. This 2.5.0 version comes after a long gap in releases of Ivy. 2.4.0 was released way back on December 26 2014. After that, the project has seen ...

Apache Ant 1.10.6 has been released this week. This release contains numerous bug fixes as well as some very exciting new features. The complete release notes is available here and the downloads itself are available here. In this article, I will go over some of the new features that have made it into this release. Running JUnit5 tests in a ...

We just released 1.9.13 and 1.10.5 versions of Apache Ant. As usual, you can download it from the Ant project download page. Both these versions are mainly bug fix releases. The 1.10.5 version however has a new enhancement to the “java” task. As I blogged previously – Java 11 introduces a new feature where you can execute single-file Java programs ...

Java 11 is nearing completion and it’s entered the rampdown phase. It almost feels like a few weeks back that Java 9 was released and here we are, within a few months of Java 11 being released. Given the new release process and timelines for Java, this will become a common thing. Whether that’s a good thing or not, we’ll ...

In one of the projects I have been involved in, we use yavijava (which is a fork of vijava) library to interact with vCenter which hosts our VMs. vCenter exposes various APIs through their webservice endpoints which are invoked through HTTP(s). The yavijava library has necessary hooks which allows developers to use a HTTP client library of their choice on the client ...

A few weeks back, we released the 2.5.0-rc1 version of Apache Ivy. Apache Ivy is a dependency management build tool, which usually is a used in combination with Apache Ant. The download is available on the project download page This release is significant since the last release of Apache Ivy was way back in December 2014. So it’s more than 3 ...

We just released 1.9.11 and 1.10.3 versions of Ant today. The downloads are available on the Ant project’s download page. Both these releases are mainly bug fix releases, especially the 1.9.11 version. The 1.10.3 release is an important one for a couple of reasons. The previous 1.10.2 release, unintentionally introduced a bunch of changes which caused regressions in various places in Ant ...