http://www.dzone.com/links/users/links/193149.html DZone: fresh links for developers en-us Copyright (c) 2006 DZone, Inc. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:58:34 GMT The DZone community 2008-08-29T00:58:34Z en-us Copyright (c) 2006 DZone, Inc. http://www.dzone.com/links/feed/user/193149/rss.xml http://www.dzone.com/images/std/dzone.com_258x55.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/ http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/javaone_2008_summaryreflection.html JavaOne 2008 is over. I’m still processing everything I’ve seen, but so far I didn’t see to much I didn’t know about before; certainly nothing shocking. Here are some of my observations related to Java7 and alternative languages for the JVM groovy java ruby trends Sat, 10 May 2008 23:44:25 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/80300.html p3t0r 2008-05-10T23:44:25Z JavaOne 2008 is over. I’m still processing everything I’ve seen, but so far I didn’t see to much I didn’t know about before; certainly nothing shocking. Here are some of my observations related to Java7 and alternative languages for the JVM]]> 80300 2008-05-10T08:57:37Z 2008-05-10T23:44:25Z 12 0 393 2 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/80300.jpg p3t0r http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/193149.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/nesting_activerecord_transaction.html A look a solutions to nest transactions is ActiveRecord; mainly to allow for unittesting transactions. open source ruby Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:29:25 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/63185.html p3t0r 2008-01-24T21:29:25Z A look a solutions to nest transactions is ActiveRecord; mainly to allow for unittesting transactions.]]> 63185 2008-01-24T21:29:25Z 4 0 23 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/63185.jpg p3t0r http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/193149.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/closures_and_the_return_of_the_return.html Joshua Bloch showed a couple of slides to demonstrate the problems with the return keyword in context of closures at JavaPolis. It kept me thinking. I had a short look a the way it works in Ruby and think the solution could (I say could, since I'm not really in favor of adding closures to Java) be used for Java as well. java ruby Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:29:46 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/58090.html p3t0r 2007-12-21T22:29:46Z Joshua Bloch showed a couple of slides to demonstrate the problems with the return keyword in context of closures at JavaPolis. It kept me thinking. I had a short look a the way it works in Ruby and think the solution could (I say could, since I'm not really in favor of adding closures to Java) be used for Java as well.]]> 58090 2007-12-21T08:32:50Z 2007-12-21T22:29:46Z 17 0 477 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/58090.jpg p3t0r http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/193149.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/how_elvis_showed_me_a_neat_way_of_using_operators.html In one of the recent releases of Groovy the Elvis operator was added to the Groovy language. It made me discover how to do similar stuff in Ruby. java ruby Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:29:08 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/57854.html p3t0r 2007-12-21T07:29:08Z In one of the recent releases of Groovy the Elvis operator was added to the Groovy language. It made me discover how to do similar stuff in Ruby.]]> 57854 2007-12-19T19:41:53Z 2007-12-21T07:29:08Z 7 0 492 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/57854.jpg p3t0r http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/193149.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/soa_esb_stencil_for_omnigraffle.html I decided to loosely ‘port’ the excellent Sonic Icon and Sonic Diagram Library for drawing SOA and ESB diagrams to an Omnigraffle stencil. It's free to download! announcement tools web services Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:58:05 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/56528.html p3t0r 2007-12-10T09:58:05Z I decided to loosely ‘port’ the excellent Sonic Icon and Sonic Diagram Library for drawing SOA and ESB diagrams to an Omnigraffle stencil. It's free to download!]]> 56528 2007-12-10T09:58:05Z 1 0 135 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/56528.jpg p3t0r http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/193149.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/the_virtues_of_hpricot_scraping_dzone.html A simple how-to on using HPricot to scrape HTML pages. how-to ruby Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:14:51 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/56203.html p3t0r 2007-12-06T19:14:51Z A simple how-to on using HPricot to scrape HTML pages.]]> 56203 2007-12-06T19:14:51Z 4 0 40 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/56203.jpg p3t0r http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/193149.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/using_rails_without_a_database.html I had some problems to get my unittests to work in a database-less rails environment; this is how I managed to get it to work how-to ruby Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:47:18 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/55960.html p3t0r 2007-12-07T05:47:18Z I had some problems to get my unittests to work in a database-less rails environment; this is how I managed to get it to work]]> 55960 2007-12-05T12:26:12Z 2007-12-07T05:47:18Z 6 0 512 1 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/55960.jpg p3t0r http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/193149.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/log4p.html I ventured into the groovy metaclass to enhance the default Date object. With a couple of lines to implement missingProperty I managed to get stuff like 'new Date().hourOfDay' and 'new Date().dayOfWeek' to work. how-to other languages Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:37:36 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/55558.html p3t0r 2007-12-02T21:37:36Z I ventured into the groovy metaclass to enhance the default Date object. With a couple of lines to implement missingProperty I managed to get stuff like 'new Date().hourOfDay' and 'new Date().dayOfWeek' to work.]]> 55558 2007-12-02T21:37:36Z 4 0 17 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/55558.jpg p3t0r http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/193149.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/extending_ldap_in_java_with_jldap.html Writing you own controls and messages is a kind of under documented thing. In addition, not all LDAP libraries support all kinds of messages. In this small howto the author shows how to implement custom controls and messages based on my experiences with implementing a RFC4533 (synchronization) client. how-to java Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:11:34 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/53378.html p3t0r 2007-11-16T22:11:34Z Writing you own controls and messages is a kind of under documented thing. In addition, not all LDAP libraries support all kinds of messages. In this small howto the author shows how to implement custom controls and messages based on my experiences with implementing a RFC4533 (synchronization) client.]]> 53378 2007-11-16T22:11:34Z 2 0 41 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/53378.jpg p3t0r http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/193149.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/cpd_with_maven2_and_pmd.html Detecting copy/pasted code is a useful technique to find potential buggy code. Here is a how-to on configuring PMD for CPD in maven2. how-to java tools Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:12:20 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/52983.html p3t0r 2007-11-14T20:12:20Z Detecting copy/pasted code is a useful technique to find potential buggy code. Here is a how-to on configuring PMD for CPD in maven2.]]> 52983 2007-11-14T20:12:20Z 1 0 12 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/52983.jpg p3t0r http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/193149.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/multiproject_maven2_getting_the_site_to_work_at_l.html 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 exist which 'solve' this 'problem' (technically it is a feature). Here is how to do it. how-to java tools Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:47:01 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/52980.html p3t0r 2007-11-14T19:47:01Z 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 exist which 'solve' this 'problem' (technically it is a feature). Here is how to do it.]]> 52980 2007-11-14T19:47:01Z 2 0 36 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/52980.jpg p3t0r http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/193149.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/getting_started_with_multiproject_maven2.html A fairly basic howto on setting up a multiproject maven2 enviroment using the default archetypes. how-to java tools Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:32:20 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/52802.html p3t0r 2007-11-15T00:32:20Z A fairly basic howto on setting up a multiproject maven2 enviroment using the default archetypes.]]> 52802 2007-11-13T22:21:40Z 2007-11-15T00:32:20Z 12 0 425 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/52802.jpg p3t0r http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/193149.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/getting_started_with_jboss_seam_using_seamgen.html Two years ago I did a project using MyFaces. I didn't really like it and started using SpringMVC. Now, with an upcoming Seam project I decided to give Seam (and JSF) another try. Since getting started proved to be a tad more difficult then I expected I decided to do a write-up. how-to java Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:23:08 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/48662.html p3t0r 2007-10-20T16:23:08Z Two years ago I did a project using MyFaces. I didn't really like it and started using SpringMVC. Now, with an upcoming Seam project I decided to give Seam (and JSF) another try. Since getting started proved to be a tad more difficult then I expected I decided to do a write-up.]]> 48662 2007-10-19T05:08:34Z 2007-10-20T16:23:08Z 6 0 465 1 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/48662.jpg p3t0r http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/193149.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/starting_with_jboss_seam_using_seamgen.html Two years ago I did a project using MyFaces. I didn't really like it and started using SpringMVC. Now, with an upcoming Seam project I decided to give Seam (and JSF) another try. Since getting started proofed to be a tad more difficult then I expected I decided to do a write-up. how-to java Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:35:47 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/48590.html p3t0r 2007-10-18T18:35:47Z Two years ago I did a project using MyFaces. I didn't really like it and started using SpringMVC. Now, with an upcoming Seam project I decided to give Seam (and JSF) another try. Since getting started proofed to be a tad more difficult then I expected I decided to do a write-up.]]> 48590 2007-10-18T18:35:47Z 1 0 44 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/48590.jpg p3t0r http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/193149.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/howto_package_level_annotations.html While working with JAXB2 I was looking for a way to specify behavior using an annotation on package level. I didn't really know how to actually put an annotation on package level.... This is how it works! how-to java Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:28:50 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/47805.html p3t0r 2007-10-13T19:28:50Z While working with JAXB2 I was looking for a way to specify behavior using an annotation on package level. I didn't really know how to actually put an annotation on package level.... This is how it works!]]> 47805 2007-10-13T19:28:50Z 2 0 35 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/47805.jpg p3t0r http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/193149.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/how_to_start_doing_behaviour_driven_development_u.html After checking out the way testing/TDD works in Grails I just had to see if my initial interest in RSpec would stand ground; here are the results of my first experiments. how-to ruby Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:39:40 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/47491.html p3t0r 2007-10-12T11:39:40Z After checking out the way testing/TDD works in Grails I just had to see if my initial interest in RSpec would stand ground; here are the results of my first experiments.]]> 47491 2007-10-11T10:01:08Z 2007-10-12T11:39:40Z 6 0 399 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/47491.jpg p3t0r http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/193149.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/testing_a_grails_taglib_using_xmlslurper.html In this post I show how write a test for a dynamic Grails taglib using the excellent XmlSlurper. how-to java tools Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:11:29 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/45586.html p3t0r 2007-10-02T19:11:29Z In this post I show how write a test for a dynamic Grails taglib using the excellent XmlSlurper.]]> 45586 2007-10-02T19:11:29Z 6 0 53 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/45586.jpg p3t0r http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/193149.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/lazylist_implementation_for_googles_collection_li.html I wrote a LazyList counterpart for Googles' Collection Library using the Forwarding decorators. Full source included. java open source Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:48:09 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/45376.html p3t0r 2007-10-04T11:48:09Z I wrote a LazyList counterpart for Googles' Collection Library using the Forwarding decorators. Full source included.]]> 45376 2007-10-01T19:18:28Z 2007-10-04T11:48:09Z 12 0 307 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/45376.jpg p3t0r http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/193149.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/quick_look_at_the_google_collection_library.html A first impression of the Google Collection Library. frameworks java reviews Mon, 01 Oct 2007 05:00:11 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/45134.html p3t0r 2007-10-01T05:00:11Z A first impression of the Google Collection Library.]]> 45134 2007-09-30T15:07:23Z 2007-10-01T05:00:11Z 13 0 1127 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/45134.jpg p3t0r http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/193149.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/getting_started_with_tdd_in_grails.html Grails offers excellent support for doing Test Driven Development. This blogpost takes you through the bare basics. frameworks how-to java methodology Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:48:25 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/44482.html p3t0r 2007-09-28T07:48:25Z Grails offers excellent support for doing Test Driven Development. This blogpost takes you through the bare basics.]]> 44482 2007-09-27T05:40:55Z 2007-09-28T07:48:25Z 12 0 134 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/44482.jpg p3t0r http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/193149.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/activeform_plugin_released.html This plugin provides a base class for making forms with ActiveRecord validations without having a corresponding database table. You can use ActiveForm for: * making forms which don’t needed storage, like simple email forms * provide extra validations on existing ActiveRecord models * make forms for composite objects news open source ruby Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:33:36 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/44072.html p3t0r 2007-09-25T06:33:36Z This plugin provides a base class for making forms with ActiveRecord validations without having a corresponding database table. You can use ActiveForm for: * making forms which don’t needed storage, like simple email forms * provide extra validations on existing ActiveRecord models * make forms for composite objects]]> 44072 2007-09-25T06:33:36Z 3 0 26 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/44072.jpg p3t0r http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/193149.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/quick_take_on_wicket_web_beans.html A quick look at the recently released wicket web beans framework frameworks java Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:28:14 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/41524.html p3t0r 2007-09-15T10:28:14Z A quick look at the recently released wicket web beans framework]]> 41524 2007-09-13T20:17:43Z 2007-09-15T10:28:14Z 9 0 340 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/41524.jpg p3t0r http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/193149.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/unittesting_email_sending_in_spring.html A simple howto on using Wiser as a dummy SMTP for unittesting in Spring how-to java Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:37:12 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/37988.html p3t0r 2007-08-29T07:37:12Z A simple howto on using Wiser as a dummy SMTP for unittesting in Spring]]> 37988 2007-08-29T07:37:12Z 3 0 24 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/37988.jpg p3t0r http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/193149.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/exposing_services_to_soap_in_grails.html A simple example showing how to expose a service to SOAP using Grails' XFire plugin. frameworks how-to java web services Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:12:37 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/37919.html p3t0r 2007-08-31T16:12:37Z A simple example showing how to expose a service to SOAP using Grails' XFire plugin.]]> 37919 2007-08-28T21:15:04Z 2007-08-31T16:12:37Z 8 0 197 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/37919.jpg p3t0r http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/193149.gif