5 Good Things Maven Brought To The Table
Maven is getting a good deal of backlash these times, latest from Tapestry God Howard and from Graeme Rocher the Grails God, but I have also not been holding back myself. We get so frustrated sometimes, when tools doesn’t feel right, while at the same time, we cannot do better ourselves! I thought I wanted [...]
January 31, 2008
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Tags: Java, maven · Posted in: Tools
Viewing Inbound and Outbound Messages in CXF
When using CXF either as a client or to serve services, you can quickly get the wish to view the raw inbound and outbound messages sent and received. Turns out, it is rather easy to enable this. There are various ways to enable this, ranging from a pure programmatic approach, to various forms of configuration. [...]
January 30, 2008
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Tags: cxf, Java, logging · Posted in: Programming
Configuring CXF Logging To Go Through Log4J
Apparently, CXF has chosen the JSE logging API as their API against logging. But you can make CXF log through Log4J quite easily. In the org.apache.cxf.common.logging package of the CXF apidocs, I found the Log4JLogger class, which is a specialization of the JSE logging api java.util.logging.Logger class, delegating logging to a Log4J implementation. Configuring Log4J [...]
January 30, 2008
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Tags: cxf, Java, log4j, logging · Posted in: Programming
Oracle ReadTimeout – A Really Useful Oracle Driver Property
For some time now, I have been bugged by a firewall somewhere along the path between my development machine and our Oracle database. The firewall seems to close the open database connections after some time of inactivity. It was particularly irritating, as my favourite SQL plugin in IDEA locked up IDEA totally, needing a kill [...]
January 28, 2008
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Tags: driver, Java, jdbc, oracle · Posted in: Programming
Log4J Configuration Not Loading Properly With maven-surefire-plugin
Today, I had a strange problem with maven, the maven surefire plugin and log4j.xml configuration not really getting into the action. No matter what I did, I could not get log4j logging statements lower than WARN level to show on stdout. But only when the tests ran from maven surefire! If I executed them directly [...]
January 24, 2008
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Tags: Java, log4j, maven · Posted in: Tools
Faking a Valid Acegi SecurityContext in a UnitTest
When using acegi security in your code, you will often have a setup, where the authentication information is put on a ThreadLocal somewhere inside SecurityContextHolder and then used later on in the application code. Actually, acegi operates with strategies for how to store the security information, but more often than not, it is on a [...]
January 24, 2008
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Tags: acegi, Java, junit, security · Posted in: Programming, Testing
Going from EJB2 to JPA Made Us Discover Bad Data
It is funny, how going from EJB2.x CMP data access code to JPA ORM data access code in one of my projects, made us discover bad data. Over a serious of years, this project has moved through EJB1.x, EJB2.0 and EJB.2.1. Our use of the old EJB standard have made the impact, that the domain [...]
January 10, 2008
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Tags: Java, jpa · Posted in: Design, Programming
One ActiveRecord Naming Convention To Take With Me
You can say what you want about the way ActiveRecord pluralizes table names. I for one, do not like it much! But hey, I could get used to it, so what the heck. But one naming convention I noticed that I have taken with me back into Java land, is the one about naming properties [...]
January 10, 2008
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Tags: ActiveRecord, Java, rails · Posted in: Programming