... Und schon wieder eine Idee für einen Artikel für die #heimatseite im #zwischennetz. Dieses Mal #java, #sbom, #spdx #apacheant , #apacheivy und #maven ...

In The Before Times I used Apache Ant quite a bit, and as a result over the years I chipped in on #StackOverflow so much that I became top scorer of the Ant topic tag https://stackoverflow.com/tags/ant/topusers

My colleague Barry calls me "Ant-Man..."

Happy to try to assist if you have any Ant problems or tasks. Post on StackOverflow, or ping me here.

I find myself back on my 12" #PowerBook running #MacOSX 10.5.8 Leopard. I’m inspired once again to compile the code for a nearly 20 year old Java 2 Mobile Edition MIDlet after having found a long standing bug and fixed it during the early pandemic.

Having found an old bookmark in my browser, I’ve looked up the Sun Java site in #InternetArchive and now have a working toolchain.

But apparently, this code is filled with MORE bugs? How the heck did I even get this to compile in the first place‽

Who needs sleep when there’s a fix needed for obsolete software?

Wow, completely forgot I used to use #ApacheAnt for organising files and podcast production. Could be doing with those now. Back in my #Java days I suspect. https://ant.apache.org/
Just different versions of the kinds of things done in #Make files building stuff using the likes of C/C++. The joys of the amount of hours saved by automation when you had a well crafted Makefile
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_(software)
Seriously think I've forgotten more than I'll ever remember.