Category Archives: java

multiproject maven2: getting the site to work

Posted on November 14, 2007 by peter

When generating a project site for a multiproject setup as described in my previous post many people run into the same problem. The links to the different modules don’t work when you use the ‘site:site’ target. A couple of solutions … Continue reading →

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Getting started with multiproject maven2

Posted on November 13, 2007 by peter

I’m helping a group of students to split up their codebase into a couple of manageable project using maven2 as the build tool. Their existing project is a layered Spring MVC web application. The following layers are present: data model … Continue reading →

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Installing Leopard

Posted on November 2, 2007 by peter

No, don’t worry… it’s not me installing Leopard on my MacBook. My wife managed to install Leopard without much help. Everything went smooth and Leopard runs really well. First impressions are (although it lacks Java 6) quite good; I really … Continue reading →

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Connecting JConsole to a Java process: the missing -D option

Posted on October 17, 2007 by peter

Once in a while I tend to use JConsole for basic profiling of a Java process. Somehow I always forget which flag I need to set to enable remote connections to a process. And yes, I know the option is … Continue reading →

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LazyList based on the Google Collections Library

Posted on October 1, 2007 by peter

In my previous post I mentioned implementing the Google Collections counterpart of the commons-collections LazyList. I’ll refer to the Google Collections Library as GCL from now on. The LazyList decorates another List to create objects in the list on demand. … Continue reading →

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Google Collection Library

Posted on September 30, 2007 by peter

Recently the Google Collections Library came to my attention. The Google Collections Library is a suite of new collections and collection-related goodness for Java 5.0, brought to you by Google. Since I’m a frequent user of apaches’ commons-collections library I … Continue reading →

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Package level annotations

Posted on September 25, 2007 by peter

While setting up JAXB2 for converting object graphs to XML I came across a not-so-nice part of the annotations specification. While looking for a way to define a package level annotation (never needed to do this before) I found the … Continue reading →

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Quick take at Wicket Web Beans

Posted on September 13, 2007 by peter

Recently a really interesting wicket extension emerged: Wicket Web Beans (WWB). Wicket Web Beans (WWB) is an Apache Wicket component toolkit for displaying and editing POJOs that conform to the JavaBeans specification. Web pages are automatically generated based on bean … Continue reading →

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Presentation: Introduction to Spring MVC

Posted on September 10, 2007 by peter

I was asked to do a series of presentations and workshops regarding Spring MVC at the HvA. Last Friday I started off with a presentation and some live coding examples. Although the students didn’t have much experience with Spring or … Continue reading →

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Unittesting e-mail sending using Spring

Posted on August 29, 2007 by peter

In previous projects I mostly skipped writing tests for sending mail. Mostly due to the fact that there is a dependency on a working SMTP server. This time I decided to invest some time in finding a solution for this … Continue reading →

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