ralf on May 16th, 2008

For testing database based applications with more or less fixed schema dbunit is nice for creating test data. There are several ways of defining the data in xml and loading it into the db. With the FlatXmlDataSet it looks like The first row defines the schema for dbunit with this format. When you have self [...]

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ralf on May 6th, 2008

Eclipse 3.3 runs with Java 1.4 but recommended is Java 5. Every customer is different for us. Not every time is Java 5 or the current Java 6 the JRE for development / production. These technical requirements are not fix for all time. So i adjust my laptop settings when i start to work for [...]

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Apache CXF 2.1 is released. I know XFire since a long time as web service provider. CXF is a merger of XFire with celtix, which provided an enterprise service bus. The main reason for choosing XFire rather then Axis was the WS-I BP compatibility. It’s a better arguing with a commercial eai provider when your [...]

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