Posted by Kris Geusebroek in the early morning: August 28th, 2009
The ordinal of an Enum is used together with JPA to set the database value of an Enum type field of an entity. Since i find the use of the ordinal dangerous in case of future changes i was searching for an alternative way of populating my database field while still using the Enum in my application code.
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Posted by Maarten Winkels in the late afternoon: June 6th, 2009
Say you want to build a web application and you want to use Seam for integrating standard technologies like JSF and EJB. Furthermore, you want to use the power of Maven to build your project for different environments, on different systems (like you continuous build system) and use its’ rich reporting features to get an overview of the code quality of your project. And of course you want to use a good IDE, like Eclipse with JBoss tools to aid you in development. How does one go about setting up all these things?
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Posted by Andrew Phillips in the wee hours: April 30th, 2009
Posted by ShriKant Vashishtha in the wee hours: November 26th, 2008
Today JavaWorld published my article series “Automated code reviews with Checkstyle” in 2 parts.
Part 1:
Automated code reviews with Checkstyle, Part 1
Part 2:
Automated code reviews with Checkstyle, Part 2
This article series attempts to bridge the gap of code review with applying automated Checkstyle checks in a complete and proactive way. First goal is to make the task of custom Checkstyle rules creation so simple so that any enterprise IT team could create new custom rules suiting to their project (IT standards) needs.
Second goal is to apply these rules in PROCTIVE fashion. Instead of waiting the build to fail or waiting for rule violation reports and working on them in a reactive way, the idea is to apply these checks proactively with Checkstyle Eclipse plugin or applying them at SVN level itself. Irrespective of which IDE you are using, if your code contains some of the high severity violations, you will not be able to commit the code in SVN. You will see the same kind errors and location on SVN console as you see with Eclipse plugin. This is achieved using SVN pre-commit hooks.
Posted by ShriKant Vashishtha at around evening time: November 16th, 2008
As I got introduced to Flex world some times back, I started using Flex Builder as an IDE, a product from Adobe on top of Eclipse platform. I assumed that it’ll provide all the basic features available in Eclipse for Java, but I was wrong. Flex Builder is in nascent phase from tooling point of view. Just to refresh your memories, Flex Builder lacks some of the following Eclipse features.
Posted by Jeroen van Erp around lunchtime: September 15th, 2008
In many JEE apps today, you almost cannot forgo XML. Whether it is in configuration, data structures or service interfaces, you will certainly use a number of XML files. In a recent project we had to deal with a number of external services which used an XML interface. Little did we know that we introduced a potential time-bomb in our application… (more…)
Posted by Balaji D Loganathan at around evening time: March 4th, 2008
The purpose of this post is to give a Maven based sample code of Spring with Stripes integration. The source code set is already in Eclipse project format, so you can use eclipse to view files content and structure.
This post will not explain about the techniques of integrating spring with stripes. The spring with stripes integration is very well explained at Stripes framework wiki page – Spring with Stripes. I kindly suggest you to read that documentation first before trying out the sample code given in this post. This post also assume that you are familiar with the basics of Maven, Eclipse, Stripes and Spring.
Few of the other “How to” samples (like Ajax addition, addition, echo, stripes layout reuse) that were documented in Stripes framework wiki page were also included in this sample code.
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Posted by Robert van Loghem just before lunchtime: February 26th, 2008
Erwin van der Koogh shows you in this Eclipse tip; how to use templates.
Templates can make your coding life a lot easier, by just typing a short word and pressing ctrl+space, et voila, a complete line of code or even better! Just check it out.
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Posted by Robert van Loghem in the early afternoon: February 14th, 2008
Robert van Loghem shows you how you can declutter your Eclipse workspace by using the Fast View feature.
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Posted by Robert van Loghem in the early afternoon: January 14th, 2008
Erwin van der Koogh shows you 2 settings that will make your Eclipse life a lot easier.
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