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Using Spring themes to override resource bundle messages
We use Spring quite a bit. In one project we use Spring MVC (I won’t get into a rant about whether that’s a good thing or not) and rightly or wrongly we use Spring themes within our UI. Yes I know JSP based UIs are so last century but sometimes if the shoe fits …
One [...]
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Just the stuff please
In April, 2008, I attended the “No Fluff, Just Stuff” in the guise of the North West Software Symposium, in Seattle, Washington, USA. For those not in the know, the NFJS series is aimed at tech savvy developers interested in expanding their knowledge and exposure to interesting developments in the land of Agile/Java (predominantly). With [...]
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Hudson - too easy
Continuous integration is a lovely thing. Automated testing is also lovely as you can see where things work or not almost instantly in different environments and scenarios.
Over the years I have used a few CI servers and tools - most notably, CruiseControl (Java and .NET) and Continuum (from the Maven crew). These systems, whilst useful, [...]
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You got mono!
One of our recent projects has a .NET backend (with a JavaScript frontend). As we use macs for our dev platform, this means dual booting or using parallels in order to fire up Visual Studio to work on and debug the backend using the embedded ASP.NET server … until now.
The other day, out of curiosity, [...]
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Highly cohesive, loosely coupled
With great vigor and a sense of wonder we headed into the great wide open that is Whistler Mountain. It’s not often that one can enjoy a day (or weekend even) on the slopes thanks to one’s workplace yet that is indeed what we were able to do as our work Christmas do.
Most of us [...]
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Webapp Configuration - the Spring Way
Most Java applications will need some context specific configuration when deploying to a certain environment. This configuration could be username, password and JDBC URL for a specific database configuration or the details of an SMTP server for java mail deployments amongst others.
There are many ways to to provide runtime configurations for Java applications. For web [...]
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gMail IMAP
Finally google have implemented IMAP for GMail. I set it up and it works quite nicely. Your ‘labels’, if you have any, are top level folders in IMAP and the google list of categories (All Mail, Drafts, Sent Mail, Spam, Starred, Trash) are all listed as folders within the [GMail] folder. Nice.
There are however a [...]
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