tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89782025088340366762011-11-27T17:40:57.513-06:00Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444543808994164187noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978202508834036676.post-46383191383018684342010-04-26T14:31:00.006-05:002010-04-26T14:43:12.353-05:00

Maven WAR Overlays are wonderful things, allowing for manipulation of a WAR artifact published by someone else into what you need for your application.Pre-compiling JSPs (JSPC) is great when you don't want users to potentially be hit with the wait for your container to compile the JSP on first visit.Here is how to put the two together: <!-- ===== Compile Time Dependencies =====================

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The Spring LDAP framework is a great library to assist in working with LDAP servers through a more manageable API. It provides the niceties that the DataSource interface does for JDBC along with support similar to the Spring JDBC framework. One area that has been lacking though is testing. With JDBC based code it is easy enough to use HSQLDB to provide an in-memory database to test against. With

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444543808994164187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978202508834036676.post-69135758142564846872008-06-07T21:58:00.005-05:002008-06-07T22:19:33.811-05:00

uPortal 3 uses the new (JDK5+) Java scripting APIs via Cernunnos, the scripting language used in the data import/export scripts. This has been working great and is a huge step forward for the uPortal project. I've been building uPortal 3 on my Apple computer since development started and it has been working great.Until I installed the Apple JDK6 Update.Now I've been itching for JDK6 on my Mac for

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Well we had a rainless day yesterday so I ran out and got a tube of all-weather flashing/concrete caulk and climbed up on the roof. I found a 1/4" crack on the corner of the flashing where the water was coming in. I caulked that and every other crack I could find on the up-roof side of the chimney.Today we had rain, lots and lots of rain. While I haven't yet been up in the attic to make sure the

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Gretchen heard this before we saw anything but we found a leak down the side of our chimney that we're pretty sure wasn't there last year. It has damaged about a 2' area of drywall on the ceiling but the joists and such, while wet, look like they'll be fine when the dry. For now we have a nice home-made funnel from the attic into a bucket in the house to avoid any further damage:Hopefully the

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In JDK 1.4 chained Throwables were added and made logging and tracing exceptions much easier. Being able to create a new exception and specify the causing exception in a standard way, tied to JVM printing out the stack chain, was a big boost to tracking down problems in an application.There are still some exceptions that do not use this standard chaining mechanism and one of the most frustraiting

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00444543808994164187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978202508834036676.post-12296267378864644932008-03-20T06:06:00.003-05:002008-03-24T21:11:37.323-05:00

With great sadness we've decided that Sirius is not going to work as a member of our family. Gretchen ran head long into a pretty serious behavior issue while taking him on a walk yesterday and we don't think we have the necessary additional time it would take to deal with these issues.He will be going back to his foster family some time in the next few days.

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So as promised here are pictures of Sirius our new dog.He is a black lab mix and about a year and a half old. We got him from a Labrador rescue group that operates in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. We drove over to Racine, WI on Saturday (about a 2 hour drive) to go meet him and then do some shopping. We had expected that if we did want to adopt him we would have to wait 24 hours to

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While shell scripting is not my strong suit I put this together to do automatic backups of the Postgres database that backs the ja-sig.org services. The script will vacuum each database, do a full dump of each database, do a dump of each schema and do a global meta-data backup. All the dumps are compressed with bzip2 and date/time stamped. Logs and backups older than 7 days are removed.The

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I recently had to take a Maven 2 WAR project and make it buildable on a system that did not have Maven available. Not being one to duplicate configuration I put together an Ant build script that, when Maven is available, can be used to pull the dependencies into the project file structure in an organized fashion and write out properties about the maven project for use by the script.Currently the

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The 2.5 release of the Spring Framework re-organized many packages and classes in the specific module JARs. Moving from Spring 2.0 to 2.5 introduces some pain in figuring out what moved where and I couldn't find anything detailing which packages reside in which module JARs. So after a few lines of shell-fu I produced the following to help with the upgrades:spring-jms.jarMETA-INF/org/org/

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The shell script on the computer being backed up, needs a no-password ssh key to work.#!/bin/bashBACKUP_HOST=user@hostSSH_KEY=/home/user/.ssh/host_rsaLOG_DIR=~/logsLOG_FILE=$LOG_DIR/backup.`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M`.logSRC_DIR=/home/user/DEST_BASE_DIR=/home/user/backups/localhostDEST_DIR_NAME=backup_`date +%Y.%m.%d_%H.%M.%S`PREV_DIR_NAME=previousDEST_DIR=$DEST_BASE_DIR/$DEST_DIR_NAMEPREV_DIR=$

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