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I'm loving Hibernate after using it for a few weeks. I'm sure I'd like it a lot more if I'd break down and read the documenation. But nope, I'm still only reading it on a JIT basis. I feel about Hibernate like I first felt about Struts. It's fun and easy to work with and makes my persistent-life soooo much easier. Now if I could only break down and learn something about ConvertUtils.
I'm in the midst of checking in my struts-resume app to the struts-apps project at sourceforge.net. I hate to admit it, but I'm doing it the ugly way. I have a ~12MB lib directory that contains all the 3rd party jars used in this application. Ugh, I wish I was using Maven now. I figure you gotta start somewhere though - so I might as well get it all in there and clean it all up later.
Anyone know how to access a CVS server (i.e. SourceForge) though an HTTP Proxy? I need to get the latest CVS version of XDoclet at work and I can only get out via a proxy. Thanks in advance.
I'm going to test out my articles on Tomcat+Apache and Apache+SSL this morning - and will update my findings here. I already have Tomcat 4.1.18 installed and working great. I will NOT be setting up clustered instances of tomcat (i.e. tomcat 1, tomcat2) but I will set up my environment to allow for a clustered environment. I am doing this on a Windows 2000 SP3 machine, which Cygwin installed. Cygwin has all the required modules already installed - SSH, OpenSSL, etc. Below are the errors I've found - hopefully someday I'll use this post to update the articles.
#
# Load mod_jk
#
LoadModule jk_module modules/mod_jk-2.0.42.dll
#
# Configure mod_jk
#
JkWorkersFile conf/workers.properties
JkLogFile logs/mod_jk.log
JkLogLevel info
JkMount /* tomcat1
Syntax error on line 114 of C:/Tools/apache/conf/ssl.conf:
SSLCertificateFile: file 'C:/Tools/apache/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt' does not exist or is empty
SSLCertificateFile c:/tools/apache/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt in ssl.conf to be (same as beginning of above)/conf/ssl/server.crt, and SSLCertificateKeyFile c:/tools/apache/conf/ssl.key/server.key to remove .key so it's just .../conf/ssl/server.key. Then I stopped and restarted Apache.Hope this helps make your next Tomcat/Apache installation easier.
I upgraded one of my client's applications from Struts 1.1b2 to Struts 1.1b3 tonight. It was a small headache, but not too bad. As far as the differences b/w 1.1b2 and 1.1b3 - they're pretty significant. Some classes/methods are downright gone - not just deprecated, but gone. Oh well, that's why it's a beta - and it's free, so who's complaining? I'll try to remember a few issues I found. The first is how to create a DynaActionForm. The code below worked with 1.1b2:
DynaActionForm messageForm =
(DynaActionForm) DynaActionFormClass.getDynaActionFormClass(
Constants.MESSAGE_KEY).newInstance();
But the getDynaActionFormClass method is now gone, so you have to use this:
FormBeanConfig cfg =
mapping.getModuleConfig()
.findFormBeanConfig(Constants.MESSAGE_KEY);
DynaActionForm messageForm =
(DynaActionForm) DynaActionFormClass.createDynaActionFormClass(cfg)
.newInstance();
A few deprecation errors cropped up as well.
Finally, I found an issue with using BeanUtils.populate(dest, orig). It worked fine with 1.1b2, but throws a NPE with 1.1b3. I replaced this with BeanUtils.copyProperties(dest, orig) and everything works as it should. My guess (from doing a toString() on the orig) is that "multipartRequestHandler=null" was messing things up.
It's interesting doing maintenance/enhancements on code that I wrote a year ago. I've learned sooooo much since then. I wish I could go back and re-factor a bunch, but my client would never go for it - it works right?! Maybe I'll refactor some for kicks - just to see if it's possible. I'd love to replace a few DAOMySQL's with DAOHibernate's ;-)
Anyone know of a utility that can be used to "remember" my CVS password? I can only access the server using SSH (similar to SourceForge) and it's getting to be a real pain to type my password every time.
After talking with Erik Hatcher a bit, I'm a bit worried about how I'm storing the current user's information. Basically, I'm putting a UserForm (extends ValidatorForm) into the session, and keeping it there to retrieve any user information I might need - in particular the userId. This is not the same as the user's login name, or the value I get from request.getRemoteUser(). How do you do this? I need the user's id from database lookups and filtering drop-downs, etc.
After working with Eclipse pretty heavily for the last week - I am beginning to become one of those guys that cannot live without an IDE. It's unfortunate in one sense, but it's great because it sure is saving me a lot of time. I love the "Organize Imports" feature, especially on the package level. Use it with caution if you've got generated classes - or add the generated classes to your classpath. I also really like the Jalopy Beautifier. I'm sure IDEA has these features too - if it doesn't, it should! Another cool plugin I found last week was one from the Eclipse team to hide CVS directories.
This morning, I found that the Hibernate team has released a new plugin for Eclipse - the Hibernator.
*** Hibernator - Hibernate plugin for Eclipse ***
Provides an Eclipse view to create and edit Hibernate mapping files (.hbm.xml).
Note this plugin will only work with Eclipse 2 (WSAD 5) and above
* Installation
- Unzip hibernator-0.9.zip into <eclipse-install>/plugins
- Restart Eclipse
* Using the plugin
Go to menu Window->Show View->Other and select Hibernator
Open up some Java source and the plugin will either display the mapping
file <class-name>.hbm.xml or a generated version
To save the contents of the mapping file right click in the window and
select "Save"
Report any bugs / Submit patches to - http://sourceforge.net/projects/hibernator.
I doubt I'll use this as I'm using XDoclet to generate my Hibernate mapping files from POJOs. However, the CodeGenerator for Hibernate is being re-vamped to allow for generation of .java files from an .hbm.xml file. Now if I could hook this into generation of Struts' ValidatorForms, I might actually use it.
Matthew E. Porter provided us with a heads up that Hibernate 1.2.2 was released. I don't even think they posted this to the mailing list, as I'm a subscriber to hibernate-devel and never received an e-mail. Released yesterday, on my Mom's birthday.
Version 1.2.2 fixes an incompatibility with certain application servers and JVM implementations. [Download]
In other news, Julie did some worrying tonight and decided that I should prepare for our house burning down. The only real thing she wanted me to do was to make sure that all the pictures of Abbie were backed up at an off-site location. So I'm doing some disaster recovery planning. Yikes - 565 MB (after tar and gzip, 1.2 GB before!) - I guess I won't be backing this one up online! I think I'll burn a CD and send it to my folks.
These are notes-to-self more than anything, but maybe you can use them.
You can add colorized text to Vim by adding the following to .vimrc in your $HOME directory:
" Switch syntax highlighting on, when the terminal has colors
" Also switch on highlighting the last used search pattern.
if &t_Co > 2 || has("gui_running")
syntax on
set hlsearch
endi
If you don't have this file, you can create it using :mkv. You can change your font-settings by editing them with Edit >> Select Font and then typing :set guifont, followed by :mkv!. I prefer Courier New, 9pt.
If you want colors for file listings (using ls) in Cygwin, add the following to your .bashrc file in your $HOME directory:
alias ls="ls -CF --color"