Archive for December, 2007

Lately I came across some differences between the Eclipse Java compiler and the Sun Java compiler. I already experienced them in another case but both have to do with how the compiler handles generics. In most of my projects I am coding in Eclipse and building the product using ant – and the Sun Java [...]

Mylyn 2.2 released

In: Eclipse|Java

27 Dec 2007

Just before Christmas Mylyn 2.2 was released. Although it is just a small change in the version number this version comes with a lot cool new features as you can see on their new and noteworthy page. These are my favorite ones: Create Task from JUnit Failure – with a simple mouse click you can [...]

Merry Christmas

In: General

24 Dec 2007

and happy holidays to all my readers!

I added the shared items of Google Reader to the sidebar of this blog – check it out and read what I enjoyed to read. Some days ago there was a new feature added to Google Reader that allows to add shared items of friends to your list- now need my friends to shared their [...]

This week I ran into a strange problem with old bloody Internet Explorer 6. I created a Spring view for displaying PDF documents to the user. The code for this view looks like public class CorrespondencePdfView extends AbstractView { @SuppressWarnings(“unchecked”) @Override protected void renderMergedOutputModel(final Map model, final HttpServletRequest request, final HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception { [...]

Sometimes you have to accomplish work on a windows PC where you do not have administrator privileges. This can be quite frustrating if you are a power user and you are used to your shortcuts and tools. Here are some tips to get rid of useless limitations some system administrators may have configured to your [...]

Vim in action video

In: Linux|Tube

16 Dec 2007

Aaron just posted a short teaser video for a vim screencast tutorial he is producing. It show only some of the features vi improved offers:

I tried to create JUnit tests for a Spring based project which I upgraded to the newest Spring version 2.5. The project is developed in Eclipse and I already got the JUnit4 library included in my Java Project: To benefit from Spring JUnit support I had to add the following annotation to my test: @RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class) [...]

Google released a sync tool that allows to synchronize Google Calendar and BlackBerry. It works with a simple Google account and Google Apps For Your Domain. Now BIS users can get one step closer to what BES users have. Using Google Apps For Your Domain with a BlackBerry should be a very good solution for [...]

Today some of the students in my course had problems with their Tomcat setup. We configured Eclipse with WTP and Tomcat 5.5.25 and the default settings under Windows XP. Every time they started their application and tried to load a JSP the compilation failed with something like java.io.FileNotFoundException: could not access file \\someshare\directoryX\directoryY\workspace\.metadata\.plugins\ org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\work\Catalina\localhost\moviedbweb \org\apache\jsp\index_jsp.java [...]


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