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. …

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 …

Με το blog τι έγινε; Τίποτα απάντησα απλά δεν έχω χρόνο, αλλά το blog δεν σταματάει έχει ups και downs. Με προβλημάτισε η ερώτηση του φίλου μου, οπότε είπα να απαντήσω σε κάποια ping. Συνεχίζω να δουλεύω αρκετά εντατικά, ή μπορεί να δουλεύω αρκετά και να μεγαλώνω παράλληλα το θέμα είναι ότι στο τέλος της ημέρας νιώθω …

Step 1: Download the packages Java 6 for MacOSX (by Apple) (1.6_065) Eventually if you already have typed java in your terminal, the system might have already prompted you and installed this one for you, if not download it. Java 7 for MacOSX (by Oracle) (at the time being 1.7.045) Java 8 for MacOSX (by Oracle) Apache …

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 …

Last week, I visited my beloved Belgium, Ghent specifically, for this year's Oracle Community Leaders summit. A 2 day mini conference that aims to bring together, community leaders of various kinds within the Oracle Technology _universe'. This was my second Jug/Leaders summit, the previous one was a couple of years ago …

I have been a huge supporter and user of tools like FindBugs, PMD, Checkstyle during my day to day java development, used mostly under Eclipse, through the related plugins. I have been also preaching about their use and I still do. So please go and install them if you have not already done so! Lately with the …

UPDATE: I have changed the download links for some of the libs, since updated versions are available. The steps remain the same. I have been receiving a lot of requests over the time, from students and people willing to experiment with the Java language, on providing a simple guide on how to setup a Java development …

Note: if you are looking for an allaround guide to set up you environment, have a look here. Yet again, a small tip towards configuring your Java development environment on a Mac (OSX 10.8.x+). If you are really starting right now, I recommend you read one of my previous posts, a quick and clean (I suppose) way to set …

Another quick late night Eclipse test hack I guess. Well it is the Java application that I use the most, meaning at least 9-10 hours per day. In my case it is a long running instance, I try to garbage collect once in a while and in general I am pissed when I do have a crash or delays, since I am working on fairly large …