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Nov
23

ide for testing JDK 7 features (Milestone 5: Build b76)

ralf on November 23rd, 2009

Sun has published milestone 5 (b76) of the upcoming Java JDK 7. JDK 7 release is currently scheduled for September 2010. My standard IDE is eclipse but the current production version 3.5 SR 1 support only Java up to JDK 6. I tried the new eclipse e4 1.0 milestone 2 (status: technical preview) which has [...]

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Nov
19

Spring 3.0 RC 2 and JSR-330 (Dependency Injection for Java)

ralf on November 19th, 2009

SpringSource has published release candidate 2 of the upcoming 3.0 release of their Spring Framework. New Feature is the compliance with JSR-330 (“Dependency Injection for Java”). The JSR was developed together by Google (for their Guice Framework and SpringSource (for their Spring Framework) and is finally approved since 14.10.2009. A little example shows how to [...]

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Oct
15

ANT -version still shows 1.6.5 with installed version 1.7.x…

ralf on October 15th, 2009

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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Feb
4

Howto setup a OpenLDAP Server for Ubuntu 8.10

ralf on February 4th, 2009

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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Jan
5

Dbunit with JUnit 4.x and Spring for testing Oracle DB Application

ralf on January 5th, 2009

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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