Upgrading ant was in the past no big deal. Just download the binary archive, extract it and adopt the ANT_HOME environment variable. ANT_HOME is set to the extracted folder and PATH contains a entry %ANT_HOME%\bin. So PATH does not need to change during an ant update. I’m recently updated from ANT 1.6.5 to 1.7.1. and [...]
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Most enterprises use LDAP as interface to their company structure database. In the Microsoft world is Active Directory the implementation for LDAP. Under Linux is OpenLDAP the common choice for admins. Such LDAP directories are tree based. OpenLDAP is the reference implementation for LDAP v3. The JNDI API inside the Java SDK is usable as [...]
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DBUnit is very nice for testing database content changes made by an application. You define in XML the data including the structure of your tables (dataset.xml). Simple_Data is the name of the table and each column is a attribute in the xml doc with the content value e.g. id with value 1. The Getting Started [...]
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´The Oracle OC4J is based on the Orion Application Server source and still has some problems from the origin. I tested to deploy a little Apache CXF Annotation based Webservice into OC4J 10.1.3.4.0 with Eclipse WTP. Add in the Servers view a new local server from type “Oracle OC4J Standalone Server 10.1.3.n” and add the [...]
GWT 1.5 (official version is 1.5.2) is now finally released and not longer a release candidate. GWT is very nice as AJAX toolkit for a java programmer. You code your application in pure Java and all the JavaScript stuff is done behind the scenes. Important is to understand the build process. The Java Source Code [...]