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In an daily DevOps world it's necessary to have an easy to use mechanism for a revisionable software deployment. Especially when continuous integration comes to play, in terms of installing, upgrading and deleting software in an easy and proven way. Why not use RPM for that? The great is, Maven can do that easily. Prerequisites : Eclipse (or IntelliJ or any other editor) maven (command "mvn" has to work on command line) git (command "git" should work on command line) rpm build ( sudo yum install rpm-build ) Building an RPM works on Linux systems like RedHat or CentOS. How To Guide Build the project, so that the targets are available locally (skipTest if they fail on your PC, e.g. because of missing MongoDB or TomCat or ...).  The following params are necessary to get it working properly: directory = where the code should be placed after the RPM is rolled out filemode = permissions for the installed code username = UID  groupname = GID locatio...

The Apache Flume Team released yesterday the next large release with number 1.2.0. Here a overview about the fixes and additions (thanks Mike, I copy your overview): Apache Flume 1.2.0 is the third release under the auspices of Apache of the so-called "NG" codeline, and our first release as a top-level Apache project! Flume 1.2.0 has been put through many stress and regression tests, is stable, production-ready software, and is backwards-compatible with Flume 1.1.0. Four months of very active development went into this release: a whopping 192 patches were committed since 1.1.0, representing many features, enhancements, and bug fixes. While the full change log can be found in the link below, here are a few new feature highlights: * New durable file channel  * New client API  * New HBase sinks (two different implementations)  * New Interceptor interface (a plugin processing API)  * New JMX-based monitoring support With this release - the first after e...