Words of Java

Found this nice blog while searching for some log4j info the other day : http://veerasundar.com/blog/
Seems to have quite some other good pieces of info aswell that I might have to discover.

Posted on January 23rd, 2010 under blogs, java. Tags: log4j. Comments: None

Not much here lately due to time issues. Or prio issues one could say. So, posting in between meetings from My iPhone is only option right now. Hopefully I Will have time to look into Jee6 tjis year and some more about tdd

Posted on January 21st, 2010 under java. Comments: 2

This book is a must have in a team of developers. It doesn’t really bring you much new stuff but it sure is a good collection of the tools you need at a dayly basis. I learned some new JUnit 4 and TestNG stuff today actually, the way test data can be set up in [...]

Posted on August 3rd, 2009 under development, java. Tags: java, junit, testng. Comments: 1

This week I tried these two Eclipse plugins at work.
I wasn’t so happy with EclEmma but maybe I just didn’t get the settings right. Would have been nice to have see the result just by looking at a production code file. Running the coverage tests all the time is going out of the way to [...]

Posted on March 27th, 2009 under agile, development, java. Tags: EclEmma, Findbugs. Comments: None

This was was not a good combination earlier but now with the Sonatype Eclipse add-on m2eclipse it is easy to start or import a maven project into Eclipse. Either import as is or use one of many archetypes for Struts2 or other well known frameworks.
The tools also gives you nice tools for dependency hierarchy and [...]

Posted on February 2nd, 2009 under development, java. Tags: eclipse, m2eclipse, maven2, struts2. Comments: None

This tutorial shows a simple way to get started with a Java web application at Jetty server with maven2 as build tool. Ok, so it’s for Windows but it should not be hard to port the non platform independent commands to other platforms.
1) Install Java
Download a Java Jdk version from http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/, for example Java SE [...]

Posted on January 23rd, 2009 under build tools, development, java, maven. Tags: holloworld, java, jetty, maven2. Comments: None

Nice little tutorial on how to get started with a HelloWorld with Java / JBoss
http://www.centerkey.com/jboss/
I wonder how this would look like for the combination maven2, java, jetty. Maybe I’ll try to figure this out and come back with a post later.

Posted on January 23rd, 2009 under java, web. Tags: java, JBoss. Comments: None

I tried adding a few extra maven reporting plugins (findbugs, clover, javancss and some more) but ran into problem when running
>mvn site
or even
> mvn -DMAVEN_OPTS=”-Xmx1024m -Xms512m” site
Stacktrace:
[INFO] Generating “Plugin Management” report.
[INFO] Generating “Mailing Lists” report.
[INFO] Generating “Continuous Integration” report.
[INFO] Generating “Project License” report.
[INFO] Generating “Project Team” report.
[INFO] Generating “Source Repository” report.
[INFO] Generating “About” report.
[INFO] Generating [...]

Posted on January 22nd, 2009 under java. Tags: clover, maven. Comments: 2

Took a look at this today and spent pretty much all day in this area. Ofcourse, when you install new software you often have to install other software for all kinds of dependencies or other needs. So, outside the core of what I meant to fix I also got my hands dirty with :
cygwin,
notepad++,
service wrappers,
and [...]

Posted on January 19th, 2009 under hudson, java. Tags: hudson, java, subversion. Comments: 2