This is one of these posts, for me as I call them. A log of helpfull tips during work that might prove handy in the future. So, I am doing lots of Oracle Weblogic configuration on these recent weeks, I needed to make my server instances auto-start and stop along with the operating system, RedHat Enteprise Linux that …

I am doing a lot of setting up and configuration for Weblogic this week (devops I guess). I have been working with Weblogic for the past 4 years and I have to admit - like Eclipse - I have started getting used of it. I was a Netbeans / JBoss developer, and I've turned to Eclipse/ Weblogic guy. I am writing this post as …

I came across today a case where I needed to complete a unit-integration test of some quite complex enterprise Java code. Actually it was JSF backing bean with a specific inheritance chain, wired all together with some EJB's. Mockito is my library of preference for all these kinds of tests (really lovely library and …

Continuous Integration became a point of interest in the enterprise software development world, in the recent 5 to 6 years. In the Java EE case, we are happy enough to see tools and practises evolving rapidly, becoming tools of reference for other technologies and contributing the most to modern software development …

One of the things I miss from google reader is the Shared items from other users. What a wonderful feature to be blown away by the bloated Google+ eco system. I used to discover many new blogs or articles through the shared items of my contacts, and now they are gone. I don't know how this Google+ thing is going to …

Just a couple of hours before I head up to the airport, I will write my last post related to LeWeb. This time I will focus on the conference it'self. Having attended a few developer conferences (not much but enough to give you some sort of experience) I have developed my own custom framework of rating a conference. I …

If you ask me,what is your framework of choice when it comes to unit testing, the answer would be Mockito. I have been using it extensively in the past 1 1/2 year and tried to introduce_ it (sometimes under the hood) in some projects. I think it is simple enough to use (simpler than JMock) and to be integrated, so it …

Yesterday evening I was glad to accept an invitation by the creators and admins of the Java Code Geeks site - to participate in this initiative. It was really an honour to be invited on a site that you read every day and hosts useful and interesting material very often. it's been almost 2 years that the Java Code …

God bless Canada and this small firm called Replacement Laptop Keys - that I found by just googling around desperate to find a solution. Ten days ago my X key on my MacbookPro just went off it's plastic case. I was silly enough to mess with glues and stuff (yes I know silly me). The only thing I managed was to break …

Using Ant 1.8 (eventually they have changed the implementation from 1.7 and onwards) in case you use the Input task to read multiple things from the system console and load them into properties or do what ever you like - you will end up with a Stream is closed IOexception the second time you will invoke an Input …