Testing CXF with Autowiring using Spring

Here is how to create a test for a CXF web service implementation class. The test use spring-mock base classes and hereby support stuff like transactions and autowiring through annotations. Neat.
I have a base class like this:

import org.springframework.test.jpa.AbstractJpaTests;

public abstract class AbstractCxfWsBeanTest extends AbstractJpaTests {
public static final String[] SERVICE_CONFIG_LOCATION = new String[]{
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June 20, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Programming  No Comments

Upgrade Maven POM Versions Recursively

More often than not, my projects end up as multi-module maven builds, with a top-level pom.xml in the trunk directory and sub pom.xml files in each module. For big projects, I even end up with more that two levels of POM inheritance. All this adds up to how many pom.xml files the project contains, and [...]

August 24, 2008  Tags: ,   Posted in: Tools  3 Comments

Israfil or Flex Mojos?

Want to compile flex code with maven? Don’t know which plugin to choose? Maybe this post will help you. Today, there are several available options for compiling flex with maven. On my list, I have these:

flex-mojos
israfil
servebox

Of the three, I have tried only the first two for real. I did take a look into the servebox [...]

July 15, 2008  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Rich Internet Applications  3 Comments

Fast Flex Compilation With Maven: Israfil or Flex-mojos

In this post, I compare performance, measured in time taken to compile flex modules with maven, from two different maven flex plugins, israfil and flex-mojos.
The Contenders
If you compile flex projects from maven, you need a maven flex plugin. Targeting flex 3, there currently exists two plugins:

Flex-mojos
Israfil

The Problem: Time Taken to Compile
One problem with the “mxmlc” [...]

July 15, 2008  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Rich Internet Applications  9 Comments

Automatic MD5 File Generation for Maven Repository

If you have a local repository for your own, in-house developed, artifacts, you might also sometimes have the need to generate MD5 sum files for these, to avoid maven warnings when downloading. I know I have this need, when I put some artifact from the outside world into my local repository. The other day, I [...]

April 16, 2008  Tags:   Posted in: Tools  2 Comments

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  Tags: ,   Posted in: Tools  4 Comments

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  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Tools  No Comments