1 Logging quickstart: Log4j and Jakarta Commons logging
Jakarta Commons logging is a wrapper around Log4j (Log4jLogger), the Java native logging system(Jdk14Logger) and the built-in fall-back logger SimpleLog.…
2 End of an era (for me): Oracle SCM State of Direction
It does not come as a great surprise, yet I feel sad. Oracle’s Statement of Direction on Oracle SCM declares…
2 MySQL, stored procedures and callable statements
The stable 3.x versions of MySQL don’t support stored procedures. Consequently the associated JDBC driver can’t support callable statements. The…
3 On-line Java/J2EE courses!
On Sang Shin’s J2EE Programming with Passion! page, you can find many good (introductory) courses on J2EE (and related topics).…
3 JBoss EJB anomalies (JBoss 3.2.4, Eclipse, Xdoclet & Lomboz)!
Developing CMP entity beans with JBoss 3.2.4, Eclipse and the Lomboz plug-in, I encountered the following anomalies:
7 Oracle Designer/Oracle SCM Meta Model
This post – or rather its comments – contain some investigations into the Designer 9i/10g Meta Model and Meta Meta…
0 Logging with J2SDK 1.4 API or Log4J ?
According to this article: After examining the standard logging API, my opinion is to stick with the log4j package if…
4 Working with Hibernate in Eclipse
In my search for an XML plug-in for Eclipse, I stumbled upon the following article: Working with Hibernate in Eclipse…
0 Tools for Automated Checking of Java Coding Standards
Automated Quality Audit or Standards Enforcement There is a number of tools available for automated standards checking. These tools parse…
8 Research into Java Development standards
Yesterday I started research into the current state of affairs with regard to coding standards for J2EE development. We are…
12 Eclipse 3.0 & Lomboz plugin download/installation
The Lomboz 3.0rc2 release works perfectly together with Eclipse 3.0. You can download it here (lomboz.3rc2.zip). Please make sure to…
13 Tip: free Struts book
The Apache Struts web application framework is is a flexible control layer based on standard technologies like Java Servlets, JavaBeans,…
2 Callable statements supported in HSQLDB
Recentely I noticed that MySQL 3.x lacks support of callable statements via the JDBC API. The good news is that…
6 Database access using Eclipse
Want to see what’s residing in your database from Eclipse? Get the QuantumDB plug-in, and create a DB connection using…
4 A Generic MVC Model in Java
An interesting article about reducing the amount of code needed to implement a certain objectmodel, using JDK1.5’s generics. “Model-View-Controller (MVC)…
3 ADF Toystore Demo
Steve Muench published his ADF version of the Toystore Demo: see http://otn.oracle.com/products/jdev/collateral/papers/10g/adftoystore.html. I have not yet tried it out but…
3 KC Session on ANT
On Tuesday we had a very good session with the Knowledge Center for Web & Java on ANT, the Jakarta…
1 Reg Exp in Oracle 10g
Last week I installed a 10g database on my laptop. I must say this was by far the easiest installation…
6 Configure sendmail to forward all mails
Go to /etc/mail/ and look in the sendmail.mc file. Uncomment and change the entry define(`SMART_HOST’,`forward.host.domain’). Additional info: The sendmail.cf is…
3 Oracle Data Cartridge – Extending the Database
Oracle Data Cartridge is a technology component, part of the Oracle RDBMS (ever since the 8i release), that allows developers…