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 It contains a reference to such a plug-in (XMLBuddy), …
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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 Java source code and determine which standards have been …
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 looking for an up to date set of low …
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 download the accompanying Eclipse Modelling Framework (EMF) plug-in too …
Tip: free Struts book
The Apache Struts web application framework is is a flexible control layer based on standard technologies like Java Servlets, JavaBeans, ResourceBundles, and XML, as well as various Jakarta Commons …
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 the Hypersonic DB (ships standard with JBoss) does support …
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 a driver suitable for your database. From then easy …
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) is a widely used design pattern, especially popular in …
KC Session on ANT
On Tuesday we had a very good session with the Knowledge Center for Web & Java on ANT, the Jakarta “make”-tool. We started with the usual roundup of everyones …
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 to extend the functionality of the database. One area …
ServletUnit
ServletUnit is a thin layer around the HttpUnit framework (reviewed here). An excerpt from the page: “As a testing tool, HttpUnit is primarily designed for “black-box” testing of web …
HttpUnit
First of all, although the name suggests otherwise, HttpUnit is NOT a unit-testing framework. What is it then? Well, read this excerpt from the HttpUnit site: “HttpUnit emulates the …
Eclipse 3.0
After a promising start, getting me all enthousiastic about the new features described in the “what’s new” document, Eclipse 3.0 got to a grinding halt when i tried to …
Eclipse intergration with JBoss J2EE application server using Lomboz plugin
I have tested JBoss via Eclipse with the Lomboz plugin along the lines of this great tutorial. I got it relativerly easy up and running and it is a …
Eclipse plugins
Currently, plugins for the 3.0 release of Eclipse are only sparsely available. However, I already discoverd two interesting ones: a subversion Eclipse plugin (CVS support is already present in …
First experiences Eclipse 3.0
Eclipse 3.0 is available for download from the 25th of June. I downloaded and installed it. It looks great and has some great new features, among others integration with …
Getting started with MySQL
If you have just installed the MySQL RPMs and wonder what to do next, check out Getting Started with MySQL. This is a wonderful concise to-the-point comprehensible “getting started”, …
Deployment in Tomcat 4.1.30 using Eclipse
With Eclipse 2.1.3 using the SysDeo plugin for Tomcat (I’m using Tomcat 4.1.30) I am not able to un/redeploy an application: the old code isn’t replaced by the new. …
Database access with Ant!
You can access a database with Ant. This can be useful when you want to create a database and fill it with some default data at the start/deployment of …