Last weekend I was fortunate to have participated in first ever random hacks of kindness event. This was quite an amazing experience and one I really enjoyed, however going into this event I had no idea what to expect, and no real insight into what to bring. So for the benefit of those looking to attend these awesome events in the future, firstly read About RHOK, secondly I compiled a list of my observations and tips. ...
Recently I started work on a new site which I plan to use underscore.js and backbone.js. Starting a site from scratch can be quite a chore, as well as time consuming. To remedy this I decided to take the plunge and give the html5boilerplate project a try, this project is designed to kickstart your html5 site development with a shell containing all of the stuff that you need to begin with. So why start with html5boilerplate at all? Well the following things come with it: ...
I discovered a couple of interesting issues when using Apache CXF and Maven behind a proxy this week. It started when I sent out a package of stubs in a Maven project I had built to enable developers of integration systems to regenerate there own stubs from the live WSDL. This project uses the wsdl2java tool from Apache CXF to generate some JAX-WS based SOAP stubs from the WSDL hosted on a staging server on the internet. When run on one of the developers sites it became apparent that the Maven cxf-codegen-plugin doesn’t pass through the already configured Maven proxy settings to wsdl2java, this was a bit annoying. ...
Recently I have been looking into setting up my own build server, having used Cruisecontrol, Hudson, Teamcity in the passed I wanted to give something new a try. With the recent release of Bamboo 3.1.1 I thought I would see what all the fuss is about. I logged onto Atlassian’s site and payed my 10 bucks, which much to my delight and respect, goes to charity. I then spun up a clean Ubuntu server running 10.04.02, yes old trusty Long Term Support release, and ran through the following steps. ...
Whilst working on my Javascript, ExtJS 4 and Apache CXF skills I came across a solution to a problem I encountered getting ExtJS to talk to Apache CXF using JSON. The basis for this issue revolves around “wrapping” in JSON and two different schools on what is correct way to encode it. As far as I can see there is the more verbose version which Jettison, the default JSON serialiser in Apache CXF produces, then there is the “unwrapped” version which the alternate serialiser Jackson produces. ...
Configuring logging in Apache CXF can be confusing at first, in my view this is further compounded by Apache Tomcat’s logging architecture. In my cxf based projects the first step is to use the logging configuration available in 2.2.8 or later. This enables you to configure your logger of choice for the entire CXF stack. Needless to say I really like this feature as I am not a big fan of java.util.logging as it’s configuration is not very intuitive. ...
Recently I have been doing quite a bit of work around Apache CXF, both on the server side and the client side. Over the next few weeks I will post some of the tricks I have learnt. In this post I will summarise one of the cxf-codegen-plugin options I used to assist me while consuming WCF web services using Apache CXF. When dealing with WCF based services, and indeed any WSDL which uses more than one namespace it is handy knowing how to control name spaces and how these translate into packages in your java stubs. ...
First post from my newly migrated blog reviewing migration from wordpress to Jekyll and Disqus. Jekyll for site generation. Sass for simplified css goodness. Pygments code highlighting. Disqus Following some of the sites which use Jekyll, I generated the skeleton and began building my site using Jekyll. After trialing some of the code highlighting options I selected pygments, this was to ensure my code samples looked good. Once the base was configured and working I moved on to add a plugin to utilise Sass in my website. Below is source to my _plugins/sass_converter.rb, this converts any scss (CSS like sass syntax) files to css. ...
Been installing RVM on anything that runs *nix lately, ran into some issues with using this great tool on Ubuntu 10.10. After a bit of reading I discovered a couple of solutions, either I could build and install some of these libraries using RVM, or I could locate and install the dev versions of these libraries in Ubuntu. As I like my libraries updated for security issues and such like I took the later option. ...
More often than not today I start my Java projects using an Apache Maven archetype. Whether it be for an Apache CXF based web service, a simple web application or some sort of service most are started from an archetype. However pretty much every project I need to add my secret project ingredients, this typically starts with a couple of key plug-ins: maven-checkstyle-plugin – I really like to know when my code is a mess, even if it does annoy some people. maven-license-plugin – Again I like stuff neat so getting everything tagged under a license is pretty important. I have extracted a sample of my default configuration to illustrate how these plug-ins are configured in the pom.xml. ...