Tag Archives: java

Ant Talk At CJUG

Posted on April 9, 2004 by Joey Gibson

I want to thank the folks at CJUG for having me up last night to speak on Ant. I thought the talk went well, though I did run long. I must say it’s rather embarrassing to discover that your presentation, … Continue reading →

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I’m Presenting at NFJS: Atlanta

Posted on September 9, 2003 by Joey Gibson

If anyone will be in or around Atlanta, GA, October 24 – 26, you should think about attending the Atlanta Java Software Symposium which is part of the No Fluff, Just Stuff symposium series. I’ll be presenting a session entitled … Continue reading →

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Java Regex APIs and Quoting

Posted on September 8, 2003 by Joey Gibson

I’ve just been digging through the J2SE 1.4 regex stuff, and every time I have to do regex work in Java I keep thinking how much easier it is in other languages. Specifically I’m talking about the clunkiness of the … Continue reading →

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J2SE 1.4.2 + WLS 7.0 + weblogic.ejbc = Problem

Posted on August 23, 2003 by Joey Gibson

I discovered something interesting the other day at the office. We have a guy who has been unable to build a certain entire jar of entity beans ever since he started working there and I had only given it scant … Continue reading →

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Eclipse 3.0 M2 Is Out

Posted on July 18, 2003 by Joey Gibson

I just got the notice that Eclipse 3.0 M2 is now available. I’ve already been using 3.0, but judging by the release notes there’s a lot of chewy Eclipse goodness loaded in this release. I’ve already downloaded it and “installed” … Continue reading →

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A Golden Gem

Posted on June 10, 2003 by Joey Gibson

JavaPro Magazine has done a review of my book, Ant Developer’s Handbook!!! The first line is the best: The Ant Developer’s Handbook is one of those golden gems that appear every once in a while. That is music to my … Continue reading →

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No (Apparent) Love Lost In JBoss Group Split

Posted on June 4, 2003 by Joey Gibson

After this morning’s surprise announcement that JBoss Group was essentially forking, there has been a lot of speculation about what this means for JBoss Group specifically and JBoss in general. The new company was started by 8 now-former JBoss Group … Continue reading →

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Jython Is Just Too Useful

Posted on May 22, 2003 by Joey Gibson

A colleague just came to me asking about Java serialization and output options. We’re going to store some partially filled Serializable DTOs in a BLOB in our database so he needed some info. Our talk then turned to options for … Continue reading →

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Tracking Down a Log4J Problem

Posted on May 21, 2003 by Joey Gibson

I had a really interesting time tracking down a Log4J problem. We’ve been using Log4J for over a year now happily and even happier with the Commons Logging package on top of it. But last week (while I was on … Continue reading →

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Ant Developer’s Handbook at JavaRanch

Posted on March 11, 2003 by Joey Gibson

Starting today over at Java Ranch they are doing a book promotion with my book, Ant Developer’s Handbook. If you are interested in Ant and want a chance to win a copy of my book, go register with JavaRanch and … Continue reading →

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My One Complaint About The Latest Eclipse

Posted on March 4, 2003 by Joey Gibson

I have but one complaint about the latest release of my favorite IDE, Eclipse. Everyone who uses Eclipse knows that to close an editor you click on the little ‘X’ button on the right side of the editor’s tab. But … Continue reading →

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Latest Nightly Eclipse Re-Adds Editor Linkage

Posted on February 28, 2003 by Joey Gibson

The latest build of Eclipse has re-added a feature that I had been missing since the M4 or so. This feature is a linking of location between the Package view and the current editor. You’ve always been able to double-click … Continue reading →

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Eclipse M5 Painless Upgrade

Posted on February 7, 2003 by Joey Gibson

Man, I love Eclipse more and more every day. I’ve been using it for almost a year and it just keeps getting better. The fabulous Eclipse team released Eclipse 2.1 M5 a couple of hours ago and I fetched it … Continue reading →

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What I Don’t Like About the Java Plugin

Posted on January 15, 2003 by Joey Gibson

Why can’t the Java Plugin on Windows unload itself after you leave a page with a (stupid) applet on it, or after X amount of inactivity? I generally despise applets, but sometimes I have to use them, such as the … Continue reading →

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It’s Dead, Jim

Posted on January 7, 2003 by Joey Gibson

I’m working with some Java wrappers for some CICS programs on our mainframe. I’ve been having a devil of a time getting the thing to work properly. In typical mainframe fashion, when it fails you get an ABEND and then … Continue reading →

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OK, Maven is Cool

Posted on January 3, 2003 by Joey Gibson

I installed Maven tonight and within about 20 minutes had one of my simple projects building with it. Once I create the project.xml file, running maven java:jar fetched, compiled and jarred everything into a ready-to-use jar file. Running maven site:generate … Continue reading →

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“Weird” Error Messages

Posted on January 2, 2003 by Joey Gibson

Whilst trying to use the nifty management console included with JRockit (supposedly the world’s fastest JVM), I recieved this error COM.jrockit.common.util.AssertionFailedException: Received a weird y = 114 or weird time = 1041533639613 class = com.jrockit.console.ui.chart.DataSourceMemoryHeap That’s the first time I’ve … Continue reading →

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Maven and Eclipse

Posted on January 2, 2003 by Joey Gibson

I got this from James Strachan‘s blog. It’s about how you can have Maven generate the .project and .classpath files in order to have Eclipse auto-grok your project! You can define this property a local build.properties, in the build.properties in … Continue reading →

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Cool Use of Jython

Posted on December 31, 2002 by Joey Gibson

I just had to share this. I am working on a very large project using BEA‘s WebLogic 7. This project takes a good 10 minutes to go through an entire compile/deploy cycle. This is a real hassle when I need … Continue reading →

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