A bug in JSSE 1.0.3 keeps me busy the whole monday – ending up with migrating from JDK1.2.2 to JDK1.4.2 „out of the cold“. In one of my maintenance project that realize some kind of an online-shop, „we“ use a third-party website for payment. Last friday afternoon they installed a new SSL-certificate. Since then, the…
In chapter 3 (you can read it online) we use the Track table to insert some data and to query data. We use CreateTest to create and QueryTest to query data. Some simple adaptions are necessary: change package name of hibernate classes to org.hibernate replace the use of the all-attributes-as-parameters-constructor with Java-Bean style use of…
This is chapter 2 of rewriting the examples of O’Reillys book „Hibernate – A Developers Notebook“ for using Hibernate 3.0 instead of Hibernate 2.x . To get the context, read chapter 1. The goal of chapter 2 is to write a hbm file for a single table, generating the corresponding java file and compile it.…
In this blog series I want to go through the examples in James Elliotts book „Hibernate – a developers notebook“ using object/relation mapping service Hibernate 3.0 instead of Hibernate 2.x that this book was written about and noting the differences, i.e. what I had to change to get them working. I enjoyed reading „Hibernate -…
A colleague of mine asked me how to route logging output of Jakarta Tomcat 5.0 to Unix syslog. This is rather easy since tomcat uses a library called „jakarta commons logging“ which in turn can use „log4j“ which itself can log to Unix Syslog. First, download log4j and commons-logging. Now copy log4j-1.2.x.jar and commons-logging.jar to…
Wer soll denn das glauben: 160 Entwickler werkelten an der ALG II-Software „A2LL“ ?? Das soll doch wohl heissen: das Projektteam besteht aus 160 Personen. Bei Projekten dieser Größenordnung sind nach meiner Erfahrung maximal ca. 20% der Teammitglieder auch in der Rolle eines Entwicklers, denn es gibt noch jede Menge Tester, Fachleute (Anforderungsmanagement) und Manager.…
Using a Garbage Collector doesn’t free you from thinking about references
This has happened to me several times: when working with eclipse, suddenly my german keyboard layout switched to the standard english keyboard layout. I couldn’t find any Preference-setting in eclipse for keyboard layout switching… Finally, the mystery is explained: de tomKronieken: Eclipse keyboard cycling „de tomKronieken“ found out its „alt-shift“ that switches the layout. and…