Posted by Jeroen van Erp in the early morning: August 17th, 2007
And walks and talks like XML, it surely must be XML. Yes, well how wrong you can be about assumptions is once more shown in this blog.
One of our clients has an application through which videos are streamed. They do this by providing a browser embedded player, or your stand-alone Windows Media Player with an ASX file. The ASX file tends to look like this:
Posted by Jeroen van Erp at around evening time: June 25th, 2007
Another installment in our mocking adventures. After I presented you last week with some possible solutions when you’re mocking static method calls. Today I am facing a different problem.
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Posted by Jeroen van Erp around lunchtime: June 22nd, 2007
Yesterday I presented you with a problem we were facing with mocking out the static call to FacesContext.getCurrentInstance(). The three solutions I presented all felt wrong somehow. Comments showed a fourth option, AOP. Today I will present you with yet another solution, which I think feels right in every way.
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Posted by Jeroen van Erp in the early morning: June 21st, 2007
How can you test methods that contain static method calls? This is a question we’re facing at the moment while working on an application of which parts have been written by another development team. In order to gain insight into functionality and quality of the codebase, we are writing JUnit tests. But a lot of the code is dependent on either the JSF FacesContext or the Spring ApplicationContext being available.
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Posted by Jeroen van Erp in the early morning: February 15th, 2007
One day, one of our testers comes up to our table and tells us: “The testing environment (Weblogic container on IBM JDK 1.4.2) is hanging”… So we kill Weblogic, fire it up again and have the tester replay his scenario. He manages to reproduce the hanging behaviour. So on come the Java Forces to find the problem. As the JDK is an 1.4.2 JDK we cannot use the Java5 jconsole to inspect the JVM. The easiest then is to first create a stack dump, as we want to see what the threads are doing. Upon careful inspection of the dump file we first find this disturbing snippet.
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Posted by Jeroen van Erp just before lunchtime: February 16th, 2006
Non-invasive Audit logging
Which developer hasn’t worked on a project where, at some point in time before the final delivery, some guy from maintenance wakes up and asks the development team whether they can perform audit logging… Specifically he wants to have a “detailed log”. It should contain the IPAddress of the user, his login name, and some information about which actions he performed and what the results were…
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Posted by Jeroen van Erp terribly early in the morning: January 12th, 2006
Using Spring and Axis it is very easy to create a client for a Webservice by just having access to a WSDL file. I’ve implemented a solution for this at one of our customers. Based upon this I’ve created a sample using the Google Web-API.
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