Installing Subversion 1.5 on Ubuntu 8.04

Using the new Eclipse version 3.4.0 and its subeclipse plugin, I found that my linux svn client has been too old:
svn: This client is too old to work with working copy ‘.’; please get a newer Subversion client
So, I have followed cylindric.net instructions installing via apt-get the 1.5 version of svn client: it works [...]

Read Full Post »

Universal JDBC GUI Client

I’ve found Squirrel Client very useful and mature product.
What I like in Squirrel Client:

Autocomplete during sql writing for table names and fields, see below a screenshot.
Automatically Keep your queries history also with the results
…

Read Full Post »

Tomcat 5.5 JNDI DataSource definition for Mysql

I share with you a DataSource definition for Tomcat 5.5 and Mysql that works fine for me. Before this version I found some problems because Mysql, under Debian, closes the connections after 8 hours of inactivity… so after a night the connection pools has not been available.

<Context
path=”/webappname”
docBase=”webappname”
debug=”5″
reloadable=”true” [...]

Read Full Post »

A rough Jboss Debian init script

I share with you my rough script for init jboss on Debian.
I have:

taken this from the JPackage Project
simplified and adapted to work on DebianSarge with lsb functions.

I have tested compliance with HA LSB semplified rules and seems working.
I’m not very famliar with shell scripts , if you can get better I’m happy to learn. [...]

Read Full Post »

Sun Java -> GPL

Today in a historic move, Sun is opening the door to greater innovation by open sourcing key of Java implementations:

Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE),
Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME),
and Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE)

Sources has been available under GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2)
News Source

Read Full Post »

MotorBike Accident: Developing PlatypusWiki

A motorbike accident has broken my fibula, more or less one month ago.

During these days I’m working hard to refactoring PlatypusWiki. I hope to achive an acceptable release.
PlatypusWiki is a free time project, we are searching, from long time: founds, investors or partners to trasform it in a not free time project and achieve [...]

Read Full Post »

OCM: Object/Content Mapping framework

After: XML data binding, ORM (Object To Relational Mapping), DTO, FormBeans, DAO, and so on … Arrives the new “pattern” OCM.
So, I’m asking to myself, how many years and written code lines, before we find a large accepted standard way to persist Objects ?
Is the future way, to develop applications, still with object oriented [...]

Read Full Post »

Java Content Repository

Presentazione allo JUG Milano di JCR, standard JSR 170. La specifica propone uno standard java per la gestione della persistenza per applicativi orientati al Content Management. EventoJUG

Read Full Post »