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IRC FAQ - Eclipsepedia - 0 views

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eclipse preferences configuration

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  • Where are Eclipse preferences stored?
  • Preferences are stored in various places (this applies to Eclipse 3.1)
  • for each installation (but this may vary for multi-user installations), in files stored in <eclipse_home>/eclipse/configuration/.settings/
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  • for each workspace, in files stored in <workspace>/.metadata/.plugin/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings
  • for each project --for project-level settings -- in files stored in a .settings sub-directory of your project folder
  • Is there an UML editor for Eclipse? An Eclipse Modelling project-based UML editor can be installed from the Eclipse update site "Modelling > UML2 Tools SDK". See Creating UML 2 diagrams with Eclipse UML2 Tools - Tutorial for an introduction.
  • How do I debug Eclipse? How can I see what plug-ins are being started? Why aren't the plug-ins I installed showing up in the UI? How do I start the OSGi console?
  • Debugging OSGi Bundle Loading Issues There are a few flags you can pass to Eclipse on the commandline or in your eclipse.ini file that might help: -consolelog - log everything in workspace/.metadata/.log to the console where you launched Eclipse as well -debug - more verbose console output -console - start the Equinox OSGi console to interact with OSGi directly -noexit - when Eclipse closes, keep the OSGi console running until you type 'exit' or hit CTRL-C so you can keep debugging See Where Is My Bundle? for an overview of how to use the OSGi console for diagnosing problems.
  • Debugging Eclipse Using Eclipse You can also debug an Eclipse instance from another instance through remote debugging: Start the instance to be debugged with "-vmargs -Xdebug -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,address=8000". You should see a message like "Listening for transport dt_socket at address: 8000" Open Run → Debug Configurations... and create a Remote Java Application configuration with connection type "Socket Attach" and connecting to the client at port 8000. Set the project to a bundle project with the right dependencies for the bundles that you are trying to debug. Launch the configuration. The JDWP agent supports other useful arguments, like "suspend=n" so that the process does not suspend. For more details, see Oracle's Java Debug Wire Protocol (JDWP) connection docs.
  • I just installed Eclipse on my 64-bit system, but it does not start. What is the problem? Make sure that you have downloaded the 64-bit version of Eclipse (it should have x86_64 somewhere in its name) and have installed a 64-bit JVM. Likewise, if you run a 32-bit JVM, then you should use the 32-bit version of Eclipse.
  • When I start Eclipse it says "Workspace in use or cannot be created, choose a different one.", what should I do? There are a couple of things you can try. Delete the workspace/.metadata/.lock file. Check your running processes to make sure there aren't any remaining Java or Eclipse processes running. When in doubt, restart your computer. :) Try starting Eclipse on a different workspace (from the workspace selection dialog, or by using a command line argument like -data /home/user/tmp-workspace), then switch back to your original workspace.
  • How do I uninstall a plug-in? You can view your list of installed software by checking your installation details from about dialog. Help > About > Installation Details
  • I'm having memory, heap, or permgen problems, what can I do? FAQ How do I increase the heap size available to Eclipse? FAQ How do I increase the permgen size available to Eclipse?
  • Eclipse seems to be hanging on startup. How can I find out why? If none of the solutions outlined in this section reveal the problem, then you can try debugging an Eclipse instance as a debug target from another Eclipse instance. This is surprisingly easy: Start Eclipse in a "new" blank workspace (e.g., C:\TEMP\WS, or /tmp) Create a new Debug configuration: Run -> Debug Configurations; then click on "Eclipse Applications" and select the New Launch Configuration. If you believe it's something about a particular workspace, then set the workspace to your normal workspace. If you believe the hang is caused by a particular plugin, disable the plugin and verify. Launch and then see. Using this approach, you can break with the debugger to see where hangs are occurring. You can also change the selection of plugins that the instance is launched with.
  • I was working on a project and doing something or other does not work. Where should I start? Try refreshing your projects. Try cleaning your your projects using the menu item Project/Clean to trigger a rebuild. Try closing/reopening your projects. Try restarting Eclipse.
  • 4.2 Where are Eclipse's log files located?
  • Where are Eclipse's log files located? <workspace>/.metadata/.log You can view this workspace log as a view if you have PDE installed on your computer (which you would if you have downloaded the Eclipse SDK). You can open that view via Window -> Show View -> Other -> PDE Runtime -> Error Log. <eclipse install>/configuration/<sometimestamp>.log <eclipse install>/configuration/org.eclipse.update/install.log
  • Where are Eclipse preferences stored?
  • Where are Eclipse preferences stored?
  • Where are Eclipse preferences stored?
  • Where are update site bookmarks stored? It is within an XML file called <user_home>/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3.1.2/configuration/org.eclipse.update/bookmarks.xml. Your Eclipse version may vary.
  • kuni katsuya on 17 Jul 12
     
    Where are Eclipse preferences stored?
kuni katsuya

Plugins - Jenkins - Jenkins Wiki - 0 views

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jenkins continuousintegration ci plugin hudson

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  • Git Plugin — This plugin allows use of Git as a build SCM
  • Subversion Plugin — This plugin adds the Subversion support (via SVNKit) to Jenkins
  • Subversion Release Manager — This plugin allows you to set up a job in Hudson for building specific revisions of a project.
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  • Subversion Tagging Plugin — This plugin automatically performs subversion tagging (technically speaking svn copy) on successful build.
  • ViewVC Plugin — This plugin integrates ViewVC browser interface for CVS and Subversion with Hudson.
  • Source code management
  • Build Pipeline Plugin — This plugin creates a pipeline of Hudson\Jenkins jobs and gives a view so that you can visualise it.
  • Build tools
  • JBoss Management Plugin — This plugin allows to manage a JBoss Application Server during build procedure
  • Maven 2 Project Plugin — Jenkin's Maven 2 project type
  • Phing Plugin — This plugin allows you to use Phing to build PHP projects.
  • Post build task — This plugin allows the user to execute a shell/batch task depending on the build log output. Java regular expression are allowed.
  • Promoted Builds Plugin — This plugin allows you to distinguish good builds from bad builds by introducing the notion of 'promotion'.
  • Publish Over SSH Plugin — Publish files and/or execute commands over SSH (SCP using SFTP)
  • Selenium AES Plugin — This plugin is for continuous regression test by Selenium Auto Exec Server (AES).
  • Vagrant Plugin — This plugin allows booting of Vagrant virtual machines, provisioning them and also executing scripts inside of them
  • Unicorn Validation Plugin — This plugin uses W3C's Unified Validator, which helps improve the quality of Web pages by performing a variety of checks.
  • Build wrappers
  • Android Emulator Plugin — Lets you automatically generate, launch and interact with an Android emulator during a build, with the emulator logs being captured as artifacts.
  • Artifactory Plugin — This plugin allows deploying Maven 2, Maven 3, Ivy and Gradle artifacts and build info to the Artifactory artifacts manager.
  • AWS Cloudformation Plugin — A plugin that allows for the creation of cloud formation stacks before running the build and the deletion of them after the build is completed.
  • Build Keeper Plugin — Select a policy for automatically marking builds as "keep forever" to enable long term analysis trending when discarding old builds - or use to protect logs and artifacts from certain builds
  • Build Name Setter Plugin — This plugin sets the display name of a build to something other than #1, #2, #3, ...
  • SSH plugin — You can use the SSH Plugin to run shell commands on a remote machine via ssh.
  • SeleniumRC Plugin — This plugin allows you to create Selenium server instance for each project build.
  • Vagrant Plugin — This plugin allows booting of Vagrant virtual machines, provisioning them and also executing scripts inside of them
  • Timestamper — Adds timestamps to the Console Output.
  • VirtualBox Plugin — This plugin integrates Jenkins with VirtualBox (version 3, 4.0 and 4.1) virtual machine.
  • Version Number Plugin — This plugin creates a new version number and stores it in the environment variable whose name you specify in the configuration.
  • VMware plugin — This plugin allows you to start a VMware Virtual Machine before a build and stop it again after the build completes.
  • AWS Cloudformation Plugin — A plugin that allows for the creation of cloud formation stacks before running the build and the deletion of them after the build is completed.
  • Desktop Notifier for Jenkins — This is useful for those who are looking for a Desktop Notifier for Jenkins builds to automatically notify you about failed builds directly from their desktops.
  • Email-ext plugin — This plugin allows you to configure every aspect of email notifications. You can customize when an email is sent, who should receive it, and what the email says.
  • Google Calendar Plugin — This plugin publishes build records over to Google Calendar
  • HTML5 Notifier Plugin — Provides W3C Web Notifications support for builds.
  • Jabber Plugin — Integrates Jenkins with the Jabber/XMPP instant messaging protocol. Note that you also need to install the instant-messaging plugin.
  • Build reports
  • Checkstyle Plugin — This plugin generates the trend report for Checkstyle, an open source static code analysis program. 
  • Clover PHP Plugin — This plugin allows you to capture code coverage reports from PHPUnit. For more information on how to set up PHP projects with Jenkins have a look at the Template for Jenkins Jobs for PHP Projects.
  • Crap4J Plugin — This plugin reads the "crappy methods" report from Crap4J. Hudson will generate the trend report of crap percentage and provide detailed information about changes.
  • Dependency Analyzer Plugin — This plugin parses dependency:analyze goal from maven build logs and generates a dependency report
  • Dependency Graph View Plugin — Shows a dependency graph of the projects using graphviz. Requires a graphviz installation on the server.
  • FindBugs Plugin — This plugin generates the trend report for FindBugs, an open source program which uses static analysis to look for bugs in Java code. 
  • Grinder Plugin — This plugin reads output result files from Grinder performance tests, and will generate reports showing test results for every build and trend reports showing performance results across builds.
  • JSUnit plugin — This plugin allows you publish JSUnit test results
  • Performance Plugin — This plugin allows you to capture reports from JMeter and JUnit . Hudson will generate graphic charts with the trend report of performance and robustness.
  • PerfPublisher Plugin — This plugin generates global and trend reports for tests results analysis. Based on an open XML tests results format, the plugin parses the generated files and publish statistics, reports and analysis on the current health of the project.
  • PMD Plugin — This plugin generates the trend report for PMD, an open source static code analysis program. 
  • Sonar plugin — Quickly benefit from Sonar, an open-source dashboard based on many analysis tools like Checkstyle, PMD and Cobertura.
  • testng-plugin — This plugin allows you to publish TestNG results.
  • Violations — This plug-in generates reports static code violation detectors such as checkstyle, pmd, cpd, findbugs, codenarc, fxcop, stylecop and simian.
  • xUnit Plugin — This plugin makes it possible to publish the test results of an execution of a testing tool in Jenkins.
  • Artifact uploaders
  • ArtifactDeployer Plugin — This plugin makes it possible to copy artifacts to remote locations.
  • Artifactory Plugin — This plugin allows deploying Maven 2, Maven 3, Ivy and Gradle artifacts and build info to the Artifactory artifacts manager.
  • Confluence Publisher Plugin — This plugin allows you to publish build artifacts as attachments to an Atlassian Confluence wiki page.
  • Deploy Plugin — This plugin takes a war/ear file and deploys that to a running remote application server at the end of a build
  • FTP-Publisher Plugin — This plugin can be used to upload project artifacts and whole directories to an ftp server.
  • HTML Publisher Plugin
  • Publish Over FTP Plugin — Publish files over FTP
  • Publish Over SSH Plugin — Publish files and/or execute commands over SSH (SCP using SFTP)
  • S3 Plugin — Upload build artifacts to Amazon S3
  • SCP plugin — This plugin uploads build artifacts to repository sites using SCP (SSH) protocol.
  • Hudson Helper for Android — Monitor your CI builds right from your Android device.
  • Hudson Mobi, the iPhone, iPod and Android client for Hudson CI — The iPhone, iPod and iPad client for Hudson CI monitoring on the road.
  • Hudson Monitor for Android — Monitor and display the status of your builds on your Android™ phone.
  • External site/tool integrations
  • Jira Issue Updater Plugin — This is a Jenkins plugin which updates issues in Atlassian Jira (by changing their status and adding a comment) as part of a Jenkins job.
  • JIRA Plugin — This plugin integrates Atlassian JIRA to Jenkins.
  • ChuckNorris Plugin — Displays a picture of Chuck Norris (instead of Jenkins the butler) and a random Chuck Norris 'The Programmer' fact on each build page.
  • UI plugins
  • Active Directory plugin — With this plugin, you can configure Jenkins to authenticate the username and the password through Active Directory.
  • Audit Trail Plugin — Keep a log of who performed particular Jenkins operations, such as configuring jobs.
  • JClouds Plugin — This plugin uses JClouds to provide slave launching on most of the currently usable Cloud infrastructures.
  • Checkstyle Plugin — This plugin generates the trend report for Checkstyle, an open source static code analysis program. 
  • FindBugs Plugin — This plugin generates the trend report for FindBugs, an open source program which uses static analysis to look for bugs in Java code. 
  • JIRA Plugin — This plugin integrates Atlassian JIRA to Jenkins.
  • M2 Release Plugin — This plugin allows you to perform a release build using the maven-release-plugin from within Jenkins.
  • PMD Plugin — This plugin generates the trend report for PMD, an open source static code analysis program. 
  • Meme Generator Plugin — Generate Meme images when a build fails (and returns to stable), and post them on the project page.
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Enterprise Architect - Product Demonstrations - 0 views

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enterprisearchitect overview video

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  • Part 2 Subversion Setting up a Subversion repository for use with Enterprise Architect models.
  • Part 4 Configure & Connect Configuring Enterprise Architect and connecting to your Version Control system.
  • Part 5 Controlled Packages Working with version controlled UML packages in Enterprise Architect.
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  • Eclipse A tour of MDG Integration for Eclipse.
  • Baseline Diagram Comparison Conduct a visual diagram comparison between your current diagram and a previous baseline .
  • Personal Information Window See how the Personal Information Window in Enterprise Architect can help you organize your daily tasks and workflow.
  • Working Sets As you perform work on your model, you open various windows, diagrams and views. Working Sets allow you to return to these same views in a later work session.
  • Business Rules A car rental system is used to illustrate how to generate executable business rules using Enterprise Architect.
  • Menu Customization Quickly and easily suppress individual menu items or entire categories of commands to create custom menu layouts.
  • Floating and Dockable Windows Save the position and layout of Floating and Dockable Windows using a Working Set in the Personal Information Window.
  • Build and Debug a Java Application Set up Enterprise Architect to build and debug a Java Application, using a VEA sample project.
  • Sequence Diagrams Learn how to create a simple Sequence diagram. The video also illustrates how to bring your Sequence diagram to life using model simulation.
  • HTML Report Generation This brief introduction illustrates how to automatically generate a HTML Report using Enterprise Architect.
  • Basic Use Case Demonstration A guide to constructing a Use Case model in under 30 seconds, including use cases, notes and issues.
  • Traceability within Enterprise Architect This video examines Traceability and discusses how to use Enterprise Architect to conduct an Impact Analysis.
  • Requirements Reporting A brief overview of requirements reporting in Enterprise Architect. Topics include document generation in web and RTF formats, report customization and virtual documents, including Model and Master documents.
  • Requirements Traceability An examination of requirements traceability in Enterprise Architect. Topics include traceability views, tracing to external artifacts, conducting an impact analysis, viewing the Relationship Matrix and using Enterprise Architect's Auditing capabilities.
  • Requirements Modeling A brief overview of requirements modeling in Enterprise Architect. Topics include requirements capture and definition, custom properties, tabular editing, auto-naming and screen prototypes.
  • Installing EA An introductory walk through and discussion of Enterprise Architect in the Software Development Lifecycle.
  • Enterprise Architect 7.5 Overview An overview of Enterprise Architect features released with version 7.5.
  • Introduction to Enterprise Architect An introductory walk through and discussion of Enterprise Architect in the Software Development Lifecycle.
  • Brief Overview The 10 minute guide to Enterprise Architect, from Requirements Management and Business Process Modeling to MDA and Code Engineering.
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TH01-EP03-US004 - Property Mgmt, Edit Location & Directions, Content Mgmt - Projects - ... - 0 views

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  • Property Mgmt
  • Property Mgmt
  • Property Mgmt
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  • Property Mgmt
  • Property Mgmt
  • Property Mgmt
  • As a user
    • kuni katsuya
      kuni katsuya on 06 Dec 12
       
      with what granted roles? from which organization?
  • ability to see
    • kuni katsuya
      kuni katsuya on 06 Dec 12
       
      permissions required: retrieve these resource types
  • Location Type
  • Description
  • Airports
  • belonging to other organizations
    • kuni katsuya
      kuni katsuya on 06 Dec 12
       
      content (license) owned by organization different than user's
  • clone this information
    • kuni katsuya
      kuni katsuya on 06 Dec 12
       
      clone = retrieve, then create ie. required permissions: {retrieve,create:}
  • have the rights
    • kuni katsuya
      kuni katsuya on 06 Dec 12
       
      generally speaking, there can be a few independent but overlapping mechanism that will control who is allowed to do what with content: 1. any subject's access to the content itself can be controlled via authorization rules (ie. required vs granted permissions) enforced via system-wide resource-based access control 2. content licensors (~content owners) can restrict the usage of their content by: * whom - ie. content licensee (legally/commercially represented by an organization) * how - eg. reuse as unmodified, create derivatives, composite, redistribute, etc * where - ie. distribution channels their content can be used (eg. only on hotel's vbrochure site, but not in any ids/gds channels) * when - temporal restrictions may limit scope of content license grant by: start, end, duration, season, etc 3. content licensees can further filter or funnel content available to them (resulting from a combination of license granted to them and access control) based on their own criteria (eg. generate a templated hotel presentation only if: at least 1 textual description, 5 photos and 1 video for a hotel is available with a license to combine them (composite content)
  • see how other organizations describe the property
    • kuni katsuya
      kuni katsuya on 06 Dec 12
       
      permission required: retrieve hotel descriptive content(?) owned by independent organization
  • Property Mgmt
  • which textual information
  • displayed
    • kuni katsuya
      kuni katsuya on 06 Dec 12
       
      displayed where? on specific channels?
  • ECM will ask user to confirm that the user has rights to use that content
    • kuni katsuya
      kuni katsuya on 06 Dec 12
       
      if ecm/vfml is to manage content licensing as a third party between organizations (content licensors & licensees) shouldn't ecm *know* if the user('s organization) has rights to use the content in question? is this question posed to the user (with required explicit acknowledgement) purely to absolve vfml from liability issues that may result from licensing disagreements?
  • property’s
    • kuni katsuya
      kuni katsuya on 06 Dec 12
       
      this being the user's (organization's) 'version'or 'view'of the hotel, since this user normally wouldn't/shouldn't be granted permissions to replace content for a hotel on a different organization's 'view'or 'version' of the same hotel
  • to see the user’s original content
    • kuni katsuya
      kuni katsuya on 06 Dec 12
       
      this implies that *at least* one version of such (temporarily) replaceable content needs to be managed/maintaned to allow reverting what if, deliberately, ignorantly or maliciously, a user replaces the same piece of--textual or any type, really--content for this hotel n times? will all n versions be required to be managed as an undo history? the user's ''original content'' might have been version 1, but equally might have been 1 mean: - previous version of the content, regardless of which user - initial version of that content attached to the hotel regardless of which user created/updated it and ignoring which organization owns it?, or, -
kuni katsuya

How to trace JDBC statements with JBoss AS - jboss datasource - JBoss application serve... - 0 views

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java jdbc logging jbossas7

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Stephen Colebourne's blog: Javadoc coding standards - 0 views

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java javadoc BestPractices documentation design communication

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  • Javadoc coding standards
  • explain some of the rationale for some of my choices
  • this is more about the formatting of Javadoc, than the content of Javadoc
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  • Each of the guidelines below consists of a short description of the rule and an explanation
  • Write Javadoc to be read as source code
  • Making Javadoc readable as source code
  • Public and protected
  • All public and protected methods should be fully defined with Javadoc
  • Package and private methods do not have to be, but may
  • benefit from it.
    • kuni katsuya
      kuni katsuya on 13 Dec 12
       
      think of it as internal design documentation when you revisit this code 8 months from now: - based on nothing but your well-chosen ;) package/class/method/variable names, will you recall all of your current design intentions and rationale? likely not - when you hand-off this code to another software engineer, how easy will it be to mostly rtfm? will you have to waste time preparing design/implementation notes specifically for the hand-off? if this is the case because the code is unreadable and not self-guiding and there's not already at least high level design notes in a wiki, you're doing it wrong!
  • If a method is overridden in a subclass, Javadoc should only be present if it says something distinct to the original definition of the method
    • kuni katsuya
      kuni katsuya on 13 Dec 12
       
      ie. don't just copy-paste the javadoc from the superclass. that's mindless and pointless monkey work
  • Use the standard style for the Javadoc comment
  • Do not use '**/' at the end of the Javadoc
  • Use simple HTML tags, not valid XHTML
  • XHTML adds many extra tags that make the Javadoc harder to read as source code
  • Use a single <p> tag between paragraphs
  • Place a single <p> tag on the blank line between paragraphs:
    • kuni katsuya
      kuni katsuya on 13 Dec 12
       
      this at least makes the paragraph breaks wysiwygísh and somewhat easier to read
  • Use a single <li> tag for items in a list
  • place a single <li> tag at the start of the line and no closing tag
  • Define a punchy first sentence
  • it has the responsibility of summing up the method or class to readers scanning the class or package
  • the first sentence should be
  • clear and punchy, and generally short
  • use the third person form at the start
  • Avoid the second person form, such as "Get the foo"
  • Use "this" to refer to an instance of the class
  • When referring to an instance of the class being documented, use "this" to reference it.
  • Aim for short single line sentences
  • Wherever possible, make Javadoc sentences fit on a single line
  • favouring between 80 and 120 characters
  • Use @link and @code wisely
  • @link feature creates a visible hyperlink in generated Javadoc to the target
  • @code feature provides a section of fixed-width font, ideal for references to methods and class names
  • Only use @link on the first reference to a specific class or method
  • Use @code for subsequent references.
  • This avoids excessive hyperlinks cluttering up the Javadoc
  • Never use @link in the first sentence
  • Always use @code in the first sentence if necessary
  • Adding a hyperlink in that first sentence makes the higher level documentation more confusing
  • Do not use @code for null, true or false
  • Adding @code for every occurrence is a burden to both the reader and writer of the Javadoc and adds no real value.
  • Use @param, @return and @throws
  • @param entries should be specified in the same order as the parameters
  • @return should be after the @param entries
  • followed by @throws.
  • Use @param for generics
  • correct approach is an @param tag with the parameter name of <T> where T is the type parameter name.
  • Use one blank line before @param
  • This aids readability in source code.
  • Treat @param and @return as a phrase
  • They should start with a lower case letter, typically using the word "the". They should not end with a dot. This aids readability in source code and when generated.
  • treated as phrases rather than complete sentences
  • Treat @throws as an if clause
  • phrase describing the condition
  • Define null-handling for all parameters and return types
    • kuni katsuya
      kuni katsuya on 13 Dec 12
       
      ideally, if the method in question has any specified/required pre and/or post conditions, they should be noted in the javadoc, not *just* null handling also, there are cleaner ways to design around this type of old school null handling hackage
  • methods should define their null-tolerance in the @param or @return
  • standard forms expressing this
  • "not null"
  • "may be null"
  • "null treated as xxx"
    • kuni katsuya
      kuni katsuya on 13 Dec 12
       
      DO NOT DO THIS this is just bad design
  • "null returns xxx"
    • kuni katsuya
      kuni katsuya on 13 Dec 12
       
      this might also stink of poor design ymmv
  • In general the behaviour of the passed in null should be defined
  • Specifications require implementation notes
  • Avoid @author
  • source control system is in a much better position to record authors
  • This wastes everyone's time and decreases the overall value of the documentation. When you have nothing useful to say, say nothing!
    • kuni katsuya
      kuni katsuya on 13 Dec 12
       
      likewise with javadoc on things like default constructors /**  * Creates an instance of SomeClass  */ public SomeClass() {} is equally useless and unnecessarily clutters up the source code
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Selling Weld and EE6 | Weld | JBoss Community - 0 views

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javaee6 weld Spring GavinKing

shared by kuni katsuya on 28 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • regarding the issue of selling Weld and EE6 to developers/shops....
  • How bout a JdbcTemplate Spring equivalent in the case of projects using legacy db schemas
  • portable extension to Weld
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  • William Drai
  • Honestly I don't see any value in switching to CDI if it is
  • to reproduce the same awful patterns
  • please not this Dao/Template mess
  • Gavin King
  • Their template pattern is a solution in search of a problem
    • kuni katsuya
      kuni katsuya on 28 Sep 12
       
      gold! :)
  • to reproduce the same awful patterns
  • please not this Dao/Template mess
  • Because, of course, there are no other well-known patterns for dealing with boiler-plate cleanup code and connection leaks.
  • This is exactly the kind of
  • brain-damage that Spring does to people!
    • kuni katsuya
      kuni katsuya on 28 Sep 12
       
      platinum!!!
  • It gives people a
  • half-assed solution
  • and somehow shuts down their brains so they
  • stop asking themselves how this solution could be improved upon
  • It's a very impressive magic trick, and I wish I knew how to do it myself. But then, I'm just not like that. I'm always trying to poke holes in things - whether they were Invented Here or Not.
  • but that might be too high-level for your taste. Their are other, less-abstract options.
  • exception handling, this is one area where Spring does a good job: "The Spring Framework's handling of SQLException is one of its most useful features in terms of enabling easier JDBC development and maintenance. The Spring Framework provides JDBC support that abstracts SQLException and provides a DAO-friendly, unchecked exception hierarchy."
  • Utter nonsense and dishonest false advertising
  • Automatic connection closing (and other boiler-plate code) is obviously a hard requirement to be handled by the fwk.
  • Pffffff. It's a trivial requirement which I can solve in my framework with two lines of code in a @Disposes method. Did you see any connection handling in the code above?
  • I mean, seriously guys. The Spring stuff is trivial and not even very elegant. I guess it's easier for me to see that, since I spent half my career thinking about data access and designing data access APIs. But even so...
  • I don't understand. You hate the ability to write typesafw SQL that much?
  • Gavin King
  • Methods with long argument lists are a code smell.
  • It's something Spring copied from Hibernate 1.x, back in the days before varargs
  • It's something we removed in Hibernate2 and JPA.
  • there are a bunch of people
  • who don't want to use JPA.
  • They don't understand, or see the value of, using managed objects to represent their persistent data.
  • Um. Why? Why would that be a bad thing? I imagine that any app with 1000 queries has tens of thousands of classes already. What's the problem? Why is defining a class worse than writing a method?
  • Are you working from some totally bizarre metric where you measure code quality by number of classes?
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JBoss Developer Framework - 0 views

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javaee6 examples

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  • jta-crash-rec Crash Recovery, JTA Uses Java Transaction API and JBoss Transactions to demonstrate recovery of a crashed transaction
  • jts-distributed-crash-rec JTS Demonstrates recovery of distributed crashed components
  • cdi-injection CDI Demonstrates the use of CDI 1.0 Injection and Qualifiers with JSF as the front-end client.
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  • bean-validation JPA, Bean Validation Shows how to use Arquillian to test Bean Validation
  • ejb-security Security, EJB Shows how to use Java EE Declarative Security to Control Access to EJB 3
  • payment-cdi-event CDI Demonstrates how to use CDI 1.0 Events
  • richfaces-validation RichFaces Demonstrates RichFaces and bean validation
  • ejb-in-war JSF, WAR, EJB Packages an EJB JAR in a WAR
  • greeter EJB, JPA, JSF, JTA, CDI Demonstrates the use of CDI 1.0, JPA 2.0, JTA 1.1, EJB 3.1 and JSF 2.0
  • helloworld-mdb EJB, MDB, JMS Demonstrates the use of JMS 1.1 and EJB 3.1 Message-Driven Bean
  • helloworld-rs JAX-RS, CDI Demonstrates the use of CDI 1.0 and JAX-RS
  • kitchensink BV, EJB, JAX-RS, JPA, JPA, JSF, CDI
  • servlet-async CDI, EJB, Servlet Demonstrates CDI, plus asynchronous Servlets and EJBs
  • servlet-security Security, Servlet Demonstrates how to use Java EE declarative security to control access to Servlet 3
  • shopping-cart EJB Demonstrates a stateful session bean
  • tasks Arquillian, JPA Demonstrates testing JPA using Arquillian
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How do I migrate my application from AS5 or AS6 to AS7 - JBoss AS 7.0 - Project Documen... - 0 views

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jbossas7 jpa hibernate3 hibernate4

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  • Configure changes for applications that use Hibernate and JPA
  • Update your Hibernate 3.x application to use Hibernate 4
  • Changes for Hibernate 3.3 applications
  • ...16 more annotations...
  • Changes for Hibernate 3.5 applications
  • if your application uses Hibernate 3 classes that are not available in Hibernate 4, for example, some of the validator or search classes, you may see ClassNotFoundExceptions when you deploy your application. If you encounter this problem, you can try one of two approaches: You may be able to resolve the issue by copying the specific Hibernate 3 JARs containing those classes into the application "/lib" directory or by adding them to the classpath using some other method. In some cases this may result in ClassCastExceptions or other class loading issues due to the mixed use of the Hibernate versions, so you will need to use the second approach. You need to tell the server to use only the Hibernate 3 libraries and you will need to add exclusions for the Hibernate 4 libraries. Details on how to do this are described here: JPA Reference Guide.
  • In previous versions of the application server, the JCA data source configuration was defined in a file with a suffix of *-ds.xml. This file was then deployed in the server's deploy directory. The JDBC driver was copied to the server lib/ directory or packaged in the application's WEB-INF/lib/ directory. In AS7, this has all changed. You will no longer package the JDBC driver with the application or in the server/lib directory. The *-ds.xml file is now obsolete and the datasource configuration information is now defined in the standalone/configuration/standalone.xml or in the domain/configuration/domain.xml file. A JDBC 4-compliant driver can be installed as a deployment or as a core module. A driver that is JDBC 4-compliant contains a META-INF/services/java.sql.Driver file that specifies the driver class name. A driver that is not JDBC 4-compliant requires additional steps, as noted below.
  • DataSource Configuration
  • domain mode, the configuration file is the domain/configuration/domain.xml
  • standalone mode, you will configure the datasource in the standalone/configuration/standalone.xml
  • MySQL datasource element:
  •         <connection-url>jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/YourApplicationURL</connection-url>        <driver-class> com.mysql.jdbc.Driver </driver-class>        <driver> mysql-connector-java-5.1.15.jar </driver>
  •        <security>            <user-name> USERID </user-name>            <password> PASSWORD</password>        </security>
  • example of the driver element for driver that is not JDBC 4-compliant. The driver-class must be specified since it there is no META-INF/services/java.sql.Driver file that specifies the driver class name.
  •  <driver-class>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</driver-class>
  • JDBC driver can be installed into the container in one of two ways: either as a deployment or as a core module
  • Install the JDBC driver
  • Install the JDBC driver as a deployment
  • In AS7 standalone mode, you simply copy the JDBC 4-compliant JAR into the AS7_HOME/standalone/deployments directory
  • example of a MySQL JDBC driver installed as a deployment:     AS7_HOME/standalone/deployments/mysql-connector-java-5.1.15.jar
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Preemptive commit comments | Arialdo Martini - 0 views

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BDD BehaviorDrivenDevelopment CommitComment BestPractices SoftwareEngineering

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  • Tell me what the software does
    • kuni katsuya
      kuni katsuya on 15 Mar 13
       
      tell me how the software should *behave*, not how the behavior was *implemented* ie. describe the changes in this commit from the behavioral perspective rather than implementation details
  • What is the project behavior, in this snapshot?
  • What did the programmers, in order to produce this snapshot?
  • ...43 more annotations...
  • committing comments describing the
  • behavior of the software,
  • rather than the
  • implementation or a description of what we did
  • commits’ comments started to look like BDD’s methods name: a description of a behavior.
  • principles
  • Talk about the feature, not about yourself
  • Don’t refer to the past
  • I know it’s now
  • list of benefits
  • More focus while developing
  • Commit review is much easier
  • Less cognitive load
  • You learn commenting much more precisely
  • commit comment becomes a
  • declaration of intent
  • like a BDD method name
  • No more “Just a fix“, “Improvements” or “I made this, this, this and also this” comments.
    • kuni katsuya
      kuni katsuya on 15 Mar 13
       
      BDD/TDD or any methodology aside, these are the worst commit comments as they are as useless as empty commit comments
  • Each preemptive comment triggers a micro design session
  • A preemptive comment sets a micro goal
    • kuni katsuya
      kuni katsuya on 15 Mar 13
       
      which also aligns well with the 'micro goal' or incremental deliverables approaches of most agile methodologies 
  • helps to focus a goal to be reached
  • Without preemptive comments, I often went on coding, always asking myself: “Should I commit now? Have I reached a stable state which I could consider a good commit?“
  • define micro-goals through preemptive comments
  • macro-goal through the feature branch name
  • A preemptive comment creates a little timebox
    • kuni katsuya
      kuni katsuya on 15 Mar 13
       
      similar to the timeboxing strategy of a short sprints, for instance
  • Writing comments preemptively puts the agreement between the pair members to a test
    • kuni katsuya
      kuni katsuya on 15 Mar 13
       
      more relevant to methodologies using pair programming
  • commit history gains a very balanced granularity
  • feature branch becomes a collection of evolutionary commits each of which has usually a 1:1 binding with tests
  • very easy to find which commit introduced a bug, since each commit is related to a single new goal/feature
  • Preemptive commit comments
  • Rule #2: write what the software
  • I started taking a lot of care of the words I was using in comments, commits, test names and classes/variables/methods’ names
  • be supposed to do,
  • not what you did
  • should
  • Introducing BDD
  • began with the simple attempt to replace the world
  • “should“
  • “test”
  • with the world
  • Rule #1: write commit comments before coding
  • use the same criteria for my commits’ comments as well.
  • (not what you did)
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Article Series: Migrating Spring Applications to Java EE 6 - Part 1 | How to JBoss - 1 views

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spring javaee6 migration

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  • In fact people still love those books without realizing that the world has changed dramatically ever since
  • The reality check here is to wonder whether the rhetorics set forth by Rod Johnson in his 2003/2004 books are still actual today
  • So if you still care about those books, the best way to show your appreciation is probably to use them as your monitor stand
  • ...21 more annotations...
  • The discussion whether or not to use Spring vs. Java EE for new enterprise Java applications is a no-brainer
  • Why migrate?
  • since then fallen a prey to the hungry minds of Venture Capitalists and finally into the hands of a virtualization company called VMware
  • While the different companies and individuals behind the Spring framework have been doing some work in the JCP their voting behavior on important JSRs is peculiar to say the least
  • outdated ORM solution like JDBC templates
  • some developers completely stopped looking at new developments in the Java EE space and might have lost track of the current state of technology
  • size of the deployment archive
  • fairly standard Java EE 6 application will take up about 100 kilobytes
  • comparable Spring application weighs in at a whopping 30 Megabytes!
  • Lightweight
  • Firing up the latest JBoss AS 7 Application Server from scratch and deploying a full blown Java EE 6 application into the server takes somewhere between two and five seconds on a standard machine. This is in the same league as a Tomcat / Spring combo
  • Dependency injection
  • Java EE 6, the Context and Dependency Injection (CDI) specification was introduced to the Java platform, which has a very powerful contextual DI model adding extensibility of injectable enterprise services
  • Aspect Oriented Programming
  • “AOP Light” and this is exactly what Java EE Interceptors do
  • common pitfall when taking AOP too far is that your code might end up all asymmetric and unreadable. This is due to the fact that the aspect and its implementation are not in the same place. Determining what a piece of code will do at runtime at a glance will be really hard
  • Testing
  • With Arquillian we can get rid of mocking frameworks and test Java EE components in their natural environment
  • Tooling
  • capabilities comparison matrix below to map Spring’s technology to that of Java EE
  • Capability Spring JavaEE Dependency Injection Spring Container CDI Transactions AOP / annotations EJB Web framework Spring Web MVC JSF AOP AspectJ (limited to Spring beans) Interceptors Messaging JMS JMS / CDI Data Access JDBC templates / other ORM / JPA JPA RESTful Web Services Spring Web MVC (3.0) JAX-RS Integration testing Spring Test framework Arquillian *
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The 4 Most Important Skills for a Software Developer | Javalobby - 0 views

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SoftwareEngineer skills

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  • The 4 Most Important Skills for a Software Developer
  • Skill 1: Solving Problems
  • It is amazing how bad most developers are at solving problems.
  • ...17 more annotations...
  • problem solving is the base skill of software development.
  • Skill 2: Teaching Yourself
  • There is probably no more important skill in life than learning to learn.
  • especially important in software development, because no field I know of changes more rapidly than software development.
  • need the ability to quickly acquire the knowledge you need for the task at hand.
  • learn how to teach yourself
  • Skill 3: Naming
  • Software development is all about describing the metaphysical
  • Every time you are writing code you are naming things
  • can accurately predict a developer’s skill level by looking at how they have named methods, variables and classes in code they have written
  • A developer who lacks the ability to give good names to concepts and data in their code is like a mute translator
  • focus on giving good names to things
  • most visible thing about your code
  • if I read it and can understand it, I am going to assume you know what you are doing.
  • Skill 4: Dealing with People
  • humans are not logical creatures
  • we are emotional ones
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Migrating from Spring to Java EE 6 - Part 4 | How to JBoss - 0 views

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  • discuss the rationale for migrating your applications from Spring to Java EE 6 and show you real examples of upgrading the web UI, replacing the data access layer, migrating AOP to CDI interceptors, migrating JMX, how to deal with JDBC templates, and as an added bonus will demonstrate how to perform integration tests of you Java EE 6 application using Arquillian
  • EntityManagerClinicTest
  • There is also an interesting Arquillian Persistence extension that integrates DBUnit in Arquillian where you can define your test data externally
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • @RunWith(Arquillian.class)
  • JDBC Templates hardly give any abstraction on top of the database and you’re on your own for Object Relational Mapping. We strongly advise to use JPA wherever possible; it gives portability by abstracting most of the database specific SQL that you would need, and it does all the hard and painful work of object mapping
  • small part of your application
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java Interface NamingConvention BestPractices

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  • interfaces define
  • capabilities
    • kuni katsuya
      kuni katsuya on 19 Dec 12
       
      this is one sensible interface naming option, if the interface encapsulates a cohesive set of behaviors and yes, compared to blindly following the meaningless I+ convention, it requires some thought, but thinking of an appropriate name also forces you to (re)consider the interface's primary responsibility and how it fits into the overall design imho, a class diagram for a domain model should be almost fluently readable english
  • not types
  • ...16 more annotations...
  • Comparable
  • Runnable
  • Serializable
  • Sometimes an Adjective doesn't make sense, but I'd still generally be using interfaces to model behavior, actions, capabilities, properties, etc,... not types.
  • Also, If you were really only going to make one User and call it User then what's the point of also having an IUser interface?
    • kuni katsuya
      kuni katsuya on 19 Dec 12
       
      another anti-pattern... blindly create an interface for every class, even if there's only one implementation!! arrgghhhh! consider introducing an interface when there are 2-3 well-distinguished, concrete implementations required
  • if you are going to have a few different types of users that need to implement a common interface, what does appending an "I" to the interface save you in choosing names of the implementations?
  • prefer not to use a prefix on interfaces:
  • hurts readability.
  • interfaces names should be as short and pleasant as possible
  • Implementing classes should be uglier to discourage their use.
    • kuni katsuya
      kuni katsuya on 19 Dec 12
       
      but they don't *have* to be ugly, like BlahImpl for specialized implementations, use descriptive adjective-noun combos
  • Code using an instance of some type should never, ever care if that type is an interface or a class
  • exposing such a detail in the name of the type is pointless and harmful to understanding
  • several reasons Java does not generally use the IUser convention.
  • should not have to know whether the client is using an interface or an implementation class
  • Java naming convention prefers longer names with actual meanings to Hungarian-style prefixes
  • Interface naming in Java [closed]
  • kuni katsuya on 19 Dec 12
     
    "have interfaces define"
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This is Stuff: Apache Shiro Part 2 - Realms, Database and PGP Certificates - 0 views

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security ApacheShiro Realm database

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  • Apache Shiro Part 2 - Realms, Database and PGP Certificates
  • move user account data to database
  • give users an option to authenticate themselves via PGP certificates
  • ...9 more annotations...
  • log in options: log in with user name/password and log in with certificate
  • how to create custom realm and how to handle multi-realm scenario
  • account credentials and access rights are stored in database. Stored passwords are hashed and salted.
  • Authorization
  • If the realm wishes to do also authorization, it has to implement Authorizer interface. Each Authorizer method takes principal as parameter and checks either role(s) or permission(s)
  • Permissions are supplied either as strings or as permission objects
  • use WildcardPermissionResolver to convert strings into permission objects
  • connect application to database and create tables to store all user account data
  • replace IniRealm with realm able to read from database and salt passwords.
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eclipse package explorer hierarchical

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  • How do I alter my package representation so that parent packages are housing child packages? 1. Click on the dropdown menu on the Package Explorer view. Go to the 'Package Representation' submenu and then click on 'Hierarchical'.
  • PDE I get an unhandled event loop exception in my console. What gives? 1. Open up the run dialog via the dropdown toolbar item.
  • 2. Select your Eclipse Application launch configuration. Go into the 'Arguments' tab and then append '-consoleLog' as an argument and then try running your application again.
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • 2. You should now see your packages presented in a tree like structure.
  • How do I not install a plug-in's extraneous dependency when I'm in the Update Manager? 1. Are you seeing a screen similar to the one where the plug-in you are installing is asking for some other plug-in? 2. Expand the section by clicking on the arrow. Keep expanding until you see everything and then tick off the "additional dependencies" that you don't want. 3. Now you can install the plug-in without installing other things.
  • I have just installed a plug-in but I do not see any indication of it in my workspace. What do I do? 1. Did you try restarting Eclipse with the -clean argument?
  • kuni katsuya on 17 Jul 12
     
    How do I alter my package representation so that parent packages are housing child packages? 1. Click on the dropdown menu on the Package Explorer view. Go to the 'Package Representation' submenu and then click on 'Hierarchical'.
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Facebook login authentication AccessToken FacebookAPI

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  • compare it to the same state variable stored client-side in the session
    • kuni katsuya
      kuni katsuya on 27 Mar 13
       
      cross-site request forgery defense mechanism
  • If the user decided to decline to authorize your app
  • YOUR_REDIRECT_URI
  • ...38 more annotations...
  • error_reason=user_denied
  • Handling Revoked Permissions to see how best to proceed
  • Step 6. Exchange the code for an Access Token
  • exchange it for a User access token that can then be used to make API requests
  • /oauth/access_token
  • server-side request to the following OAuth endpoint:
  • client_secret
  • code=CODE_GENERATED_BY_FACEBOOK
  • body of the response
  • access_token
  • USER_ACCESS_TOKEN
  • persist this User access token in your database or in a session variable
  • must have the same base domain as that specified in the App Domain property of your app's settings
  • URL of the form https://apps.facebook.com/YOUR_APP_NAMESPACE
  • scope=user_birthday,read_stream
  • Step 4. Add Permissions to Login Dialog request
  • comma-separated list of any of the Permissions available
  • Step 5. Handle the response from the Login Dialog
  • Step 5. Handle the response from the Login Dialog
  • Step 5. Handle the response from the Login Dialog
  • Step 5. Handle the response from the Login Dialog
  • YOUR_REDIRECT_URI
  • Step 3. Redirect the user to the Login Dialog
  • Login for Server-side Apps
  • Login for Server-side Apps
  • Login for Server-side Apps
  • Login for Server-side Apps
  • Login for Server-side Apps
  • Login for Server-side Apps
  • way to authenticate users in situations where the use of client-side Javascript is not appropriate.
  • Login for Server-side Apps
  • received an access token for them and can make API calls on their behalf
  • Step 5. Handle the response from the Login Dialog
  • include CSRF protection using the state parameter
  • if the user has authorized the app, they will be redirected to:
  • YOUR_REDIRECT_URI
  • code=CODE_GENERATED_BY_FACEBOOK
  • redirect_uri as the same URL that redirect the user to the Login Dialog
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Java EE wins over Spring « Bill the Plumber - 0 views

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javaee spring comparison

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  • Spring is controlled by ONE COMPANY. It is not an independent open source organization like Apache. At least with Java EE there are multiple OPEN SOURCE implementations. How long before VMWare decides its $500 million investment needs to be recouped and they start charging for Spring in a big way? Don’t think it can happen? Think again…VMWare is in the same poor position BEA/WLS was against JBoss with Red Hat’s VM/Cloud tech eating away at VMWare’s margins. There is a much higher chance of them scrambling for revenue sources than Red hat ever being acquired by Oracle.
  • Core JavaServer Faces JSF 2.0 Cookbook JavaServer Faces 2.0, The Complete Reference EJB 3.1 Cookbook Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1 Beginning Java EE 6 with GlassFish 3 Java EE 6 with GlassFish 3 Application Server Java EE 6 Development With NetBeans 7 Real World Java EE Patterns Rethinking Best Practices Real World Java EE Night Hacks Dissecting the Business Tier
  • books about the different APIs of Java EE 6:
  • ...8 more annotations...
  • if you’ve heard Rod Johnson speak he is always adamant that Spring has replaced Java EE. Its good to see that his rhetoric is utter BS!
  • Sorry, even Spring MVC sucks as much balls as JSF does.
  • Java EE wins over Spring
  • CDI closed API hole
  • Application server started to get their act together with regards to boot time.  It started with Glassfish and ended with JBoss 7.  Both of which can boot in a matter of seconds.
  • Arquillian allows you to run your unit tests in a real environment with real transactions, etc.  Personally I always despised mocks because they didn’t test in the environment you were going to run in.  I thought they were pointless and to this day, I refuse to use this testing pattern.
  • I’m glad Rod and company were able to cash out with the VMWare acquisition before Java EE was able to regain its dominance
  • SpringSource pushed Java EE to innovate and for that I’m very grateful.  For Java EE, it was either evolve or die.  They evolved, now its time for Spring to die.
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eav sparse open schema

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  • Entity–attribute–value model
  • Entity–attribute–value model (EAV) is a data model to describe entities where the number of attributes (properties, parameters) that can be used to describe them is potentially vast, but the number that will actually apply to a given entity is relatively modest
  • also known as object–attribute–value model, vertical database model and open schema
  • ...21 more annotations...
  • In an EAV data model, each attribute-value pair is a fact describing an entity, and a row in an EAV table stores a single fact
  • EAV tables are often described as "long and skinny": "long" refers to the number of rows, "skinny" to the few columns
  • Data is recorded as three columns: The entity: the item being described. The attribute or parameter: a foreign key into a table of attribute definitions. At the very least, the attribute definitions table would contain the following columns: an attribute ID, attribute name, description, data type, and columns assisting input validation
  • The value of the attribute
  • Row modeling, where facts about something (in this case, a sales transaction) are recorded as multiple rows rather than multiple columns
  • differences between row modeling and EAV (which may be considered a generalization of row-modeling) are:
  • A row-modeled table is homogeneous in the facts that it describes
  • The data type of the value column/s in a row-modeled table is pre-determined by the nature of the facts it records. By contrast, in an EAV table, the conceptual data type of a value in a particular row depend on the attribute in that row
  • In the EAV table itself, this is just an attribute ID, a foreign key into an Attribute Definitions table
  • The Attribute
  • The Value
  • Coercing all values into strings
  • larger systems use separate EAV tables for each data type (including binary large objects, "BLOBS"), with the metadata for a given attribute identifying the EAV table in which its data will be stored
  • Where an EAV system is implemented through RDF, the RDF Schema language may conveniently be used to express such metadata
  • access to metadata must be restricted, and an audit trail of accesses and changes put into place to deal with situations where multiple individuals have metadata access
  • quality of the annotation and documentation within the metadata (i.e., the narrative/explanatory text in the descriptive columns of the metadata sub-schema) must be much higher, in order to facilitate understanding by various members of the development team.
  • Attribute metadata
  • Validation metadata include data type, range of permissible values or membership in a set of values, regular expression match, default value, and whether the value is permitted to be null
    • kuni katsuya
      kuni katsuya on 01 Jul 12
       
      jsr-299 bean validation anyone?  :)
  • Presentation metadata: how the attribute is to be displayed to the user
  • Grouping metadata: Attributes are typically presented as part of a higher-order group, e.g., a specialty-specific form. Grouping metadata includes information such as the order in which attributes are presented
  • Advanced validation metadata Dependency metadata:
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