http://rockhoppertech.com/blogs Java development tips Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:46:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The m2Eclipse plugin has been accepted into the Eclipse Foundation.  Perhaps this will push development along. Already there is a ton of new features in the current release - along with decent documentation! Thanks! The update site at codehaus is still alive but it looks like the new versions will be at http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/update/ and ... http://rockhoppertech.com/blogs/archives/49 Let's say you wrap stored procedures with Spring's StoredProcedure class like this: @Repository public class SPGetWhatever extends StoredProcedure { @Autowired public SPGetWhatever (DataSource dataSource)etc. That @Repository annotation like @Component and @Service allows you to tell Spring to scan the classpath and instantiate them without you having to write a bean ... http://rockhoppertech.com/blogs/archives/47 I've been taking a legacy codebase, putting testing in place and refactoring. For DB access I retrofitted the persistence classes to be injected via Spring with a DataSource instead of looking them up via JNDI. IN my Spring context I defined a PlatformTransactionManager. <bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource" scope="singleton" p:driverClassName="${jdbc.driverClassName}" p:url="${jdbc.url}" p:username="${jdbc.username}" p:password="${jdbc.password}" /> <!-- has a property ... http://rockhoppertech.com/blogs/archives/46 In a previous post I wrote about using JUnit4 with Selenium. So how about injecting your JUnit run listener via Spring? My first attempt modified my runner to be a subclass of SpringJUnit4ClassRunner Then I created the usual XML spring config file but named it after my test class name. So for FooTests I ... http://rockhoppertech.com/blogs/archives/44 The Selenium website seems to be biased towards TestNG. That's fine but I'm using JUnit4. One nice feature of the selenium testcase class is to produce a screendump for failures. But it's a JUnit 3 class; it seems they have not noticed that JUnit4 exists. So how to get a screendump ... http://rockhoppertech.com/blogs/archives/45 Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire MySQL, Developer of the World's Most Popular Open Source Database And then Oracle announces that it's buying BEA. (Will it become BEAL? Bill, Ed, Alfred and Larry?) http://rockhoppertech.com/blogs/archives/41 There is a plugin for Eclipse for developing JavaFX. The official installation instructions are ok to a point. You do get the plugin installed. But then what? I hope to save you a bit of time with this post. Create a new Java project. You don't have to add anything to ... http://rockhoppertech.com/blogs/archives/40 One of the food related sites I visit has a nice layout and presentation in general. So, I took a look at their source. I had to laugh when I saw the CSS conditional. (I had to do something similar for this blog's theme). http://rockhoppertech.com/blogs/archives/39 Netbeans version 6 final has been released. View announcement http://rockhoppertech.com/blogs/archives/37 I use microformats whenever I can. This blog uses hCard, hAtom, and geo If you use the excellent Firefox plugin Operator you can see them. There are several built in formats. You can download additional scripts for Operator here: Mike’s Musings » Operator User Scripts http://rockhoppertech.com/blogs/archives/17