Download jars of a Maven project to another folder

If you have to download all the jars of a maven project into a separate location.

First install maven on you operating system.

Locate the pom.xml of the project you wish to download jars.

Execute the following command in that location.

mvn dependency:copy-dependencies

You will find all the jars in the folder target/dependencies under that location.

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Conference Travel Log: Day 5

The 28th International IEEE AINA 2014 conference started today at the university of Victoria. It started with the keynote from Prof Shojiro Nishio from Osaka university. He spoke about Humanware: the third ware which creates innovation in Information technology.

Humanware is a new terminology introduced by them which is the flow of information linking information among human relationships.  This involves understanding the biological dynamics, cognitive dynamics and information dynamics about humans.

Prof Shojiro compared humans and machine with respect to memory capabilities, data transfer rates, performance among which humans are insignificant when compared to machines, whereas in the aspect of energy consumption they suggest humans consume much less energy than machine to do the same work. They reasons that, genes and brain do not remove noise but utilize noise or “yuragi” to achieve highly energy efficient and adaptive behavior.

Yuragi enables information and communication technology, which is highly adaptive, robust and energy efficient.

These concepts they have implemented in dynamic routing algorithms and prove that “Yuragi” reduces complexity and energy consumption.

After the keynote we attended the workshop in Trust Computing and Social Networking. The first talk gave a detailed explanation of email system and proposed a new advanced mail system using correspondence model. This proposed a framework through which different level of policies could be enforced for different contexts and users depending on the situation. The author also explained the working of the email system, which was very insightful.

This was followed by a talk on introducing a 3rd party auditing for Cloud computing. In my opinion this concept was not realistic and the author was not very clear about the kind of SLAs they where addressing. My personal opinion was that the solution they proposed was not viable.

The last talk in this workshop was about a user-centric  highly reliable personal website portal.  This was very similar to many password management systems. But it was unique feature where the service reads the contractual documents or the terms of service and presents them in a user-friendly manner. The author suggested that this will be implemented through NLP. One of the audience also suggested have a zero knowledge proof for the same, which was a very interesting suggestion.

We attend the many other session where the papers where more concentrated about the security and privacy aspects.

The day ended with a welcome party, which was good way to meet many professors and authors and discuss their research interests. It was a good way to end an eventful day.

 

 

 

 

 

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Conference Travel Log: Day 4

We visited today to University of Victoria. The university is full of greenery with a very nice campus.

We where right on time and the talk was about to start by 11 am.

We went straight into the seminar room. The talk was well attended with around 20 people including around 3 professors.

I started my presentation with starting with an introduction about Clouds Lab and then speaking about Cloud Computing and then introducing about workflows and finally presenting my work.  The presentation lasted around 15 mins. After the presentation there was a brief Q&A from the profs, there was some inquisitive question about my work, which I addressed.

Following my presentation Chenhao presented his work to the audience. After the presentations Dr Pan’s student Marayam took us around different labs and introduced us to the research students. Some of them where working on Cloud computing into energy efficient resource allocations.

But mostly the lab was working in wireless networks, mesh networks and vehicular networks. Dr Pan was gracious enough to take us to lunch.

After lunch we returned to hotel and refreshed and thought of exploring Victoria’s downtown (the city center). Marayam, Dr pan’s student was very generous to show us around Victoria’s downtown and introduce us to some important locations.

Then, we explored the shopping malls, souvenir shops around the downtown. We also ventured into a chocolate shop called Rocky Mountain. I tried the English Toffee Apple, which was green apple coated in caramel, dipped in chocolate with nuts on top. It was my first ever encounter to such a things and it was amazing a truly fulfilling experience.

After this, we roamed a few more street and ended up in a Indian restaurant called Sizzling Tandoor. Indian food to end the day was the most perfect way to end.

The conference starts officially tomorrow. Looking forward for it.

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Conference Travel Log: Day 1

Today, 10th of May I started my journey for the Conference AINA in Victoria, Canada.

I left Melbourne around 11 am via China eastern airline. Tips if you travelling on Chinese airline, book your meal preferences 24 hrs in advance if you have preferences. I was lucky to get Indian vegetarian meal without that notice.

Then I reached Shanghai around 7:30 shanghai time. Then after 4-5 hrs started my journey on wards to Vancouver. That was one long flight for almost 12hrs. I reached Vancouver at around 9:30 pm Vancouver time. We took a cab to the hotel and it costed us around $30. The taxi driver was Indian and had a good conversation with him about Canada, places to visit and transport. He brought us to the hotel on time and was very honest.

We had our booking in Days Inn Metro in kingsway. The place is very hygienic, clean and very comfortable. Would highly recommend. After we moved into the room, had a great bath. Now planning to go around the city for a short walk and get a feel of the city. Keep connected, more to come 🙂

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Use package listing error: Listing.sty not found – MikTex

This happens usually because of the mirror sites not working or the zipped formats are in incorrect formats.

Simple solution for these kinds of errors is to find the MikTex working directory (For example  “C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\” ).

Further go to the “\miktex\bin” folder and locate the executive file “miktex-update_admin.exe”.

Update the MikTex packages and recompile. Update the packages using this exe until the latex file compile completely.

This method should resolve majority of the issues.

 

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