Matt RaibleMatt Raible is a Web Developer and Java Champion. Connect with him on LinkedIn.

The Angular Mini-Book The Angular Mini-Book is a guide to getting started with Angular. You'll learn how to develop a bare-bones application, test it, and deploy it. Then you'll move on to adding Bootstrap, Angular Material, continuous integration, and authentication.

Spring Boot is a popular framework for building REST APIs. You'll learn how to integrate Angular with Spring Boot and use security best practices like HTTPS and a content security policy.

For book updates, follow @angular_book on Twitter.

The JHipster Mini-Book The JHipster Mini-Book is a guide to getting started with hip technologies today: Angular, Bootstrap, and Spring Boot. All of these frameworks are wrapped up in an easy-to-use project called JHipster.

This book shows you how to build an app with JHipster, and guides you through the plethora of tools, techniques and options you can use. Furthermore, it explains the UI and API building blocks so you understand the underpinnings of your great application.

For book updates, follow @jhipster-book on Twitter.

10+ YEARS


Over 10 years ago, I wrote my first blog post. Since then, I've authored books, had kids, traveled the world, found Trish and blogged about it all.

Ant Sucks? Puleeze!

Markus Kohler seems to think that Ant sucks. Personally, I love Ant, so I guess you could say I'm biased ;) I'm posting this in hopes that Erik Hatcher will see it and offer a rebuttal. I don't know that there is one, but I figured it's worth a try.

Posted in Java at Dec 17 2002, 11:11:59 PM MST 4 Comments

Now Running Tomcat 4.1.17

I upgraded this site to use Tomcat 4.1.17 in about 10 minute tonight. All I had to do was change my server.xml to use the proper ports for my ISP, and copy the MySQL JDBC driver to $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib. Nice and easy - short and sweet. My kinda software - "it just works."

Later: Tomcat seems to be running just fine, but I'm getting the following error in catalina.out. It doesn't seem to affect anything, so I'm not too worried. When running on Tomcat 4.0.6, I kept getting a ClassNotFound error for an hsql jdbc driver, and everything ran fine. I never even used or refered to the hsql driver was the wierd part. The error has been there since my very first post on August 1st.

17-Dec-2002 10:14:40 PM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket processConnection
INFO: server has been restarted or reset this connection
17-Dec-2002 10:14:51 PM org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler action
INFO: RESET

Posted in Java at Dec 17 2002, 03:55:54 PM MST 5 Comments

Jakarta's POI

I went to the kick-off party for my project tonight - too bad no one I'll be working with showed up! Oh well, everyone else that was there was very cool. Margaritas and nachos is always fun. I finally met the recruiter I've been working on the phone - and she's even cooler than she sounded on the phone. Apparently, there was a requirements meeting for the project on Monday. Doh! That would've probably been a good meeting to attend.

I heard that the hardest requirement will be parsing/reading Excel files, on a Unix box. I think the ol' POI project can come to the rescue for us.

The POI project consists of APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java.

OLE 2 Compound Document Format based files include most Microsoft Office files such as XLS and DOC.

You just gotta love open source!

Posted in Java at Dec 17 2002, 03:25:04 PM MST 6 Comments

Why do you blog?

I received the e-mail below from Andy Katz (no need to broadcast his e-mail) this afternoon. Messages like this make blogging worthwhile and the world a better place in general.

Date: Tue Dec 17, 2002  12:10:11 PM America/Denver
Subject: thanks for the great site ...

hello matt,

i just wanted to drop you a quick note to let you know how much 
valuable and interesting information i find on your website 
every day!

thanks so much for taking the time to put it all together.  as 
you know, it's often difficult trying to stay on top of all the 
latest software and tools.  you make it that much easier as well 
as providing unbaised feedback and commentary on all of the above.

i look forward to visiting your site every morning.

AWESOME! I'm glad I could help and I'm even more pumped that you took the time to send me this e-mail. Thanks Andy, much appreciated. I feel the same way about reading Dave and Russell's sites - good stuff.

Posted in Roller at Dec 17 2002, 06:52:58 AM MST 1 Comment

Tomcat Clustering with JavaGroups

Need clustering for Tomcat? Check out the tomcat-javagroups project at SourceForge.

This project consists of a custom Tomcat 4 Manager class which enables session replication across Tomcat 4 instances using JavaGroups as the communication mechanism.

Posted in Java at Dec 17 2002, 06:03:33 AM MST Add a Comment

Eclipse Plug-ins for Struts and DAO Generation

I ran across STRECL.COM today via the struts-user mailing list.

TRECL is a set of plugins for the Eclipse IDE. Using STRECL you will get a powerful tool for Java server-side applications development. STRECL plugins offer easier utilization of the Struts framework in Eclipse IDE by visualization of editing, facilitating navigation, wizards etc.

STRECL currently offers the following plugins:
  • struts-config.xml editor
  • JSP editor
  • DAO generator
  • validation.xml editor
  • Struts navigator view

Just in time to get some coverage in my Struts chapter - that is, if it's any good ;-)

Posted in Java at Dec 17 2002, 05:52:00 AM MST 3 Comments

[ANNOUNCE] Tomcat 4.1.17 Released!

As predicted... (man are they quick!).

The Tomcat Team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 4.1.17 Stable. Tomcat 4.1.17 includes many bugfixes and performance tweaks over Tomcat 4.1.12. Please see the release notes for a complete list of the changes. [Download]

Important note: When upgrading from another Tomcat 4.x release, the Tomcat work directory must be cleared.

Posted in Java at Dec 17 2002, 05:38:27 AM MST Add a Comment

Watching TV and Blogging

I have the opposite problem that Jeff has. He says he can't watch TV and blog as he never gets any blogging done. I can't watch TV and blog as I never get any TV watching done. Then again, I have Tivo so I can always rewind. But it is a pain the butt when I settle down to watch some football and I miss the whole game!

But I grew up without TV, so I actually don't like the stuff and I'm one of those parents who fear for their kids TV-watching habits. Julie, on the other hand, is a TV addict and loves the stuff. Should be an interesting compromise to raise Abbie (+1 in a year or two) with our opposite views on the boob tube.

Posted in General at Dec 17 2002, 01:02:17 AM MST Add a Comment

Tomcat 4.1.17 Stable

From watching the tomcat-dev mailing list, I'd expect a Tomcat 4.1.17 release either today or tomorrow. The website files have been updated in CVS to indicate this.

Posted in Java at Dec 17 2002, 12:35:29 AM MST Add a Comment

JK 1.2.2 Released

Since I 've modified a couple of articles to detail installing Apache and Tomcat, and I seem to get a lot of hits on this site from it - I'd better tell you about the latest release of the Apache/Tomcat connector. From my Inbox this morning:

JK 1.2.2 maintenance release is available. Changes with JK 1.2.2:

  • tomcat_trend.pl updated script to support changed logging of aborted requests
  • jk set correctly the content-type in Apache 2.0, making it ready to works with mod_deflate and AddOutputFilterByType
  • jk will check result of get_endpoint and handle a failure. This call can fail if the allocation for the endpoint fails because of low memory conditions causing a dereference of NULL when we try and access the endpoint

Sources, Linux (flat/rpms) and iSeries binaries are already available, Windows, Solaris, MacOS X binaries will be released soon.

iSeries Note: Previous JK binaries for iSeries (AS/400) were built without TERASPACE support nor multi-threading support code and should be considered incorrect. Production sites should upgrade to this version.

Binaries Providers: We're looking for binaries contributors for AIX and FreeBSD (Apache 1.3 (w/wo SSL) and Apache 2.0.42 or higher).

Posted in General at Dec 17 2002, 12:32:51 AM MST Add a Comment