it's been almost 2 weeks that I have completely switched over to IntelliJ as my main Java IDE at home and at work. So far so good, here are my initial findings. Migration: I took me a couple of hours to migrated my projects over. Eventually if your project is already Mavenized, things are simple, no risk involved. …

We are resuming for the 4th part, our simple project currently has a web maven module (a war) an ejb module (ejb) holding our stateless session beans (EJB 3.1) and a second (ejb) module holding our entity beans (JPA2) but we are still missing the one to package them all, archive, which will be of ear_ type (aka …

Series Previous Post, Next Post We are resuming for the third part, we already have a parent pom and we have already defined the pom for our war module. In our original setup we have defined that our application is going to include a services jar, in the form of an ejb jar. This where our Enterprise Java Beans are …

I am a regular Eclipse user, for almost 10 years now, it is not bad but in these recent years I feel like, I code towards a tool that is insisting on doing it's thing, maintaining it's state, invoking and running stuff that I can not control, on a daily basis. I have been spending more and more time trying to find, …

I can remember this constant argument of many developers advocating other platforms in the past. Yes you may use Java which is generally ok, but even if you develop an app using your frameworks, nobody is offering hosting for your application servers, there are simply not a lot JVMs in the cloud that you could easily …

Series Previous Post, Next Post We have just defined, our parent pom. A special type of pom that eventually defines the libraries that our application is going to use. It also configures all the maven tools used in order to package each module of our application. You can check out the part -1 sample code here. So up …

Series Next post Why ? Many times, I am trying to resolve several basic or complex Maven / Java EE project structure issues, on my day work. In order to provide the solutions, I often end up experimenting with the project structure, test my deployment on different application servers and fine grain my configuration. …

Ο φίλος @dikouv μου πάσαρε ένα ωραίο site το οποίο κάνει ένα page load analysis, παρόμοια με αυτή που μπορεί να κάνει το Developer Tools του firefox, το pingdom.com. Response times, load times, assets loaded και size. Μιας και είμαι στον χώρο, τον τελευταίο χρόνο, είπα να κάνω ένα απλοϊκό test, για τα load times των …

A quick one, you are a Java Developer and you may not still code towards JDK8 on your project but you would like your IDE or tools to make use of the all new stuff this new version of the jdk & jre brings. I assume you use the latest Eclipse version which currently is Kepler 4.3.2 . Step 1: Install JDK 8 for MacOSX, as …

I am writing this post as a tip and warning rather than an absolute solution. I will try to come back with a workaround for my case (WebSphere 8.5.5), but I am sure that other developers and applications will be affected. I've lost some time trying to figure out the cause of the problem, so for the time being this post …