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If system throws "too many open files" error or something like following during build/compilation [INFO] java.io.FileNotFoundException: (Too many open files) This means limit to open files for the user or system has been exceeded. You can check the limit by running following command ulimit -a Solution -> open file common-session sudo vi /etc/pam.d/common-session Add following entry in the file session required        pam_limits.so open file limits.conf sudo vi /etc/security/limits.conf make sure both soft and hard limits are set to larger number (as per your need) *                soft    nofile          500240 *                hard    nofile          500240 Logout and login and run command again ullimit -a You will see the new limit number.

I was trying to compile and install thrift from  https://github.com/apache/thrift . While compiling the thrift for 6 and 8 version i faced few errors and had to spend lot of time fixing it   (Including searching various solutions on Net). Let me  detail out few error and solution for it. Missing thrifty.h  src/thriftl.ll:50:21: fatal error: thrifty.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. make[3]: *** [libparse_a-thriftl.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/abc/thrift/compiler/cpp' make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/abc/thrift/compiler/cpp' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/abc/thrift' make: *** [all] Error 2 Solution -> You will have thrifty.hh file instead of thrifty.h. Location of file would be  ./compiler/cpp/thrifty.hh  cp ./compiler/cpp/thrifty.hh ./compiler/cpp/thrifty.h and start your compilation again, It should work. Non static declaration er

To make deployment automated, there may be need to get the artifacts from maven repo. Release artifacts can be downloaded since we know the version But how to download the latest snapshot artifacts. here are few http call to get  rid of such issues. How to download latest Snapshot artifact from nexus maven repo If you know the version you can directly get the artifact like this wget  http://<Your repo name>/service/local/artifact/maven/content?r=snapshots&g=com.&a=app&v=2.0.25-SNAPSHOT&p=war

This topic is specially for users who are new to the Build, SCM and Release Management and need to understand how can they setup the infrastructure and what are their options. To Build the system to automate the build and deployment process there are few main areas which needs to be covered. Following are our prerequisite. - Source code   - Builds System -  Deployments - QA Automation To describe above here are main ingredients

Few Maven Tips and tricks to make Maven builds fast and faster and efficiently. This can help to reduce the build timings drastically and optimize your build timings Run compilation parallel mvn -T 2 clean compile #Above will trigger 2 threads mvn -T 1C clean install #Above will trigger 1 thread per CPU, if you have 2 CPU core then 2 threads will be spawned. #You can even give number in fraction (1.5, 2.5 etc).

Building any software need lots of efforts including resource, time, money etc. It is really a great pleasure when it goes live or get released. In parallel, fear may come with the doubt of having bugs (even though testing is done). You can fix bugs related to software feature or functionality but the once which can hit badly are Security vulnerability  Licensing risk of open source component. Outdated open source component. Above checks needs to be done during the development phase and ruled out any discrepancy related to security or legal. WhiteSource provides one fine platform to solve such issues without putting much effort by developers, So that they can concentrate on core development instead of spending time on finding these issues which can be easily handled by WhiteSource . WhiteSource is an open source management solution which does Open source licensing and compliance management Open Source security vulnerabilities alerts and management Executive dashb