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AppFuse won't work with J2EE 1.4 Final I don't know why, but AppFuse's MailUtilTest won't run with J2EE 1.4 Final. It works fine with 1.4 Beta 2. Posted in Java at Nov 26 2003, 10:09:12 PM MST Add a Comment

Upgraded to Roller 0.9.9 I upgraded this site to Roller 0.9.9-dev about an hour ago. Seems to be humming along quite nicely - and the GZip Filter is back in action (wasn't working before I upgraded). There looks to be a few issues to iron out still, but since I was able to figure them all out - I'm pretty darn happy with this release.

  • oscache.properties is missing from CVS
  • a bunch of the editors had leftover (?) taglib declarations - I replaced them with an include to /theme/taglibs.jsp
  • the value in Website > Config > Site Name shows up where "Home" used to - I had to rename my site to "Home" to maintain my same menu selections
  • there's a lot of SQL (or HQL) logging going on that I can't turn off
  • bookmark display macros are broken - you'll need to change the name of your bookmark names (in the macros) to have a /root/ prefix. For example, #showBookmarks("Articles" true true) -> #showBookmarks("/root/Articles" true true)

Hope this helps any early adopters... Posted in Roller at Nov 26 2003, 10:06:00 PM MST 6 Comments

My Favorite Eclipse Plugins (Download v1.0) When I go to new clients, I either have to install Eclipse, or help others configure Eclipse with cool plugins. So I made my own download of my favorite Eclipse plugins. If you want it, download version 1.0 from SourceForge. It includes the following:

Installation: Unzip to where ever you have Eclipse installed. I use c:\Tools\eclipse on Windows.

I don't really use XMLBuddy because it doesn't allow spaces (only tabs), but I suppose it's better than nothing. The built-in Ant Editor has the same behavior (tabs only). I'd love to find a plugin that gives code-completion for XDoclet when typing JavaDocs, but I couldn't find one. Sure, there's JBoss-IDE (which is just a bunch of Eclipse plugins), but that only has jboss-specific tags - no @hibernate, no @struts.

NOTE: Many of these plugins didn't work on Eclipse 3.0 M5, so I reverted back to M4.

OS X Users: Jalopy and Colorer don't seem to work at all for me (M4). You'll need to change Easy Explorer from "explorer.exe {0}" to "open {0}" in Window > Preferences > Easy Explorer.

These are all the latest versions as of November 26, 2003.

Posted in Java at Nov 26 2003, 01:02:59 PM MST 13 Comments

Unix Utils for Windows If you develop on Windows, and you use Microsoft's "cmd" to run Ant or compile your classes - you really should install Cygwin - it's much easier and provides the same functionality as cmd. Even better, Dan sent me an e-mail (can't find it now) about UnxUtils - Native Win32 ports of some GNU Utilities. You can even download an executable to install it. I dig it - symlinks that actually work on Windows. Posted in General at Nov 26 2003, 07:02:20 AM MST 3 Comments