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Learning a new Language
I attended a No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium a few weeks ago. One of the main emphasis during the weekend was learning new languages that are available on the JVM. While there are a variety of reasons that we need to take time to learn new programming languages, one of...Spring Injection with @Resource, @Autowired and @Inject
Annotations public interface Party { } 'Person' is a component and it implements 'Party'. package com.sourceallies.person; ... @Component public class Person implements Party { } 'Organization' is a component and it implements 'Party'. package com.sourceallies.organization; ... @Component public class Organization implements Party { } I setup a Spring context that scans both of these packages for beans marked with '@Component'. <context:component-scan base-package="com.sourceallies.organization"/> <context:component-scan base-package="com.sourceallies.person"/> @Resource private Party party;</pre> ```java @Autowired private Party...Debugging memory leaks with VisualVM
At work I had run into a memory leak when scrolling through large result sets returned from Hibernate. I thought I had fixed it by performing a evict()/clear()/flush() in the HibernateTemplate that I was using but suddenly the leak was back. I was using VisualVm to monitor the...Creating an Open Source Project
I feel like I understand the differences a little better, but I would like to know what other open source projects are using. I found a list of the “Top 20 Most Commonly Used Licenses in Open Source Projects" (http://www.blackducksoftware.com/oss/licenses). With the comparisons and the ranking I am leaning towards...Maven 3 Tutorial - Project Setup
To illustrate this point I will share a story from my early years in software development. Our shop used Ant without Ivy. Ivy didn’t become a full fledged Apache project until October, 2007. Each team had their own Ant build. As we began to move from team to team we had to find...
Selenium IDE - Part II
In Part I we covered All examples will use the sample site https://sites.google.com/site/example4selenium/. <li>You can verify your XPath by clicking the 'Find' button. The element will be highlighted in the browser with flashing neon green if it exists.</li> <li>If you want to select elements by position, you may want the following information....Selenium IDE - Part I
Selenium IDE is a free Firefox plugin that leverages javascript to record automated test scripts. In this first tutorial we will install Selenium IDE and create a basic test script. The next tutorial will cover more advanced topics. I primarily use Selenium IDE in three areas: <li>Click the 'Results' link.</li> <li>Right-click and...Greasemonkey
Greasemonkey is an extension for Firefox that leverages javascript to modify the look and functionality of a page. At first glance this tool looks like a neat toy. However, this tool came in quite handy at one of our partners recently. Our partner was tracking their daily status on...Javascript functions for creating a read-only view
I'm sure you've all been there before. After months of creating page after page of crud screens, you're now asked to create a read-only view of everything. I usually see this implemented with setting the readOnly attribute on every field to a variable that indicates whether or not the screen...Exploring Design Patterns in the JDK
Design Patterns are software design solutions that can be applied in our daily software development to help us develop code that is flexible, resilient to change and easily understood (when you are familiar with the pattern). The JDK APIs employ patterns in several areas. So even if you aren't familiar...