Yesterday I found myself struggling with an odd Java problem. I suspect it is a Java bug, though I have deeply, deeply ingrained...
I’ve spent most of today wrestling with this and it ought to have been easier, but everywhere I looked for instructions had lots...
Since the rise of smart phones writing phone apps is all the rage, to the extent that it almost seems we have forgotten what we...
Unlike JBoss and Glassfish there is no way to define a custom JNDI object (eg a URL) in the WebLogic console. We need this to de...
The problem
We use ant for our builds and it generally works just fine. But we’ve been rationalising our many build scripts la...
This is about publishing java classes generated from xsd files using JAXB‘s xjc utility. Specifically I’m publishing a jar fil...
I decided it was well past time to take a closer look at JUnit4. If you are still using JUnit3 you need to know that JUnit4 uses...
Yesterday I wasted a coupled of hours and it is my own fault. Just in case you hit the same problem (or in case I hit it again a...
Lately I have been modifying some code other people have written. There are some things about writing Java that I consider fairl...
Last week we had a problem with a live system, therefore it was an emergency. The problem was around serialization. The applicat...