Spring-ws on AppEngine

Use Spring-ws 1.5.8 and Spring framework 3.0.2.RELEASE.

Replace soap's messageFactory with an AxiomMessageFactory. Use Axiom 1.2.8.

Use xmlBeans for marshalling.

AppEngine, Maven and Eclipse

First step is to create the maven project:

mvn archetype:create

and select the

gae-archetype-jsp (Archetype for creating maven-gae projects that uses jsp for the view)

archetype.

Then, generate your Eclipse project:

mvn eclipse:eclipse

Create an application on AppEngine. Then, adjust the pom.xml, appengine-web.xml and perhaps the web.xml.
Now, you should be able to copy the app-engine sdk dependencies to your local maven repo:

mvn gae:unpack

and then start the app in your local server:

mvn gae:run

OK!?

Mardao 1.4 is released for download

OK, it's been a while, but now the next version of mardao is released. 1.4 contains one new feature, findBy(Expression... expressions), and one important bug fix, ResultSet.getTimestamp() instead of getDate(). As always, download from sourceforge:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mardao/files/1.4/

Mardao 1.3 is released for download

Including one important bug fix on the findBy(Map args) method, 1.3 is now released and available for download:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mardao/

Mardao 1.2 is released for download

Just a simple bugfix for Eclipse IDE and Java 1.5.
Check out http://sourceforge.net/projects/mardao/files/

/Ola

Mardao Tutorial

Hi folks,
there is now a tutorial for setting up a mardao project from scratch. Please visit
the project wiki.

Mardao 1.1 is released for download

So, about a week after the 1.0, next release is due. New features are

• Support for @Table(name="tblName")
• Support for @Column(name="colName")
• Per-table generated CREATE sql scripts

Fixed bugs:

• Use column names instead of Entity attribute names

Other:

• More JUnit tests

For more info and downloads: http://mardao.sourceforge.net/

Mardao - the Architect's Java DAO generator

Today I released the 1.0 version of mardao, the Architect's Java DAO generator.
It uses your annotated domain objects to generate DAO classes, see image.

For more information and downloads, visit
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mardao

SVN authentication with Apache and OpenLDAP on Debian

 DAV svn
 SVNParentPath /svn
 
 AuthType Basic
 AuthBasicProvider ldap
 AuthName "LDAP auth repo"
 AuthLDAPURL ldap://localhost/dc=sub,dc=company,dc=com?uid
 AuthLDAPGroupAttribute memberUid
 AuthLDAPGroupAttributeIsDN off
 AuthzLDAPAuthoritative on
 Require ldap-group cn=SVN-inhouse,cn=Groups,dc=sub,dc=company,dc=com

Recover a RAID disk

This server really needs to be replaced.

Bugzilla and Testopia on Ubuntu

This was done on Ubuntu 9.10, Bugzilla 3.4.6 and Testopia 2.3.1

Bugzilla

unzip tar to /var/www or similar, then do the
./checksetup.pl --check-modules

Manually install the missing required modules as described.

Then, if you get a
Attempt to reload DateTime.pm aborted.
Compilation failed in require at Bugzilla/Util.pm line 53.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Bugzilla/Util.pm line 53.
Compilation failed in require at Bugzilla/Hook.pm line 26.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Bugzilla/Hook.pm line 26.
Compilation failed in require at Bugzilla/Config.pm line 37.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Bugzilla/Config.pm line 37.
Compilation failed in require at Bugzilla.pm line 38.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Bugzilla.pm line 38.
Compilation failed in require at ./checksetup.pl line 101.

it seems to be the List:MoreUtils and DateTime::Locale that's missing:

/usr/bin/perl install-module.pl List::MoreUtils
/usr/bin/perl install-module.pl DateTime::Locale

Now, the
./checksetup.pl
works!

Edit the localconfig file a little. Set $db_pass and $webservergroup to what's
relevant for your system, 'bugs' and 'www-data' respectively in my case.

Again, do
./checksetup.pl

Time to access the web interface:
http://localhost/bugzilla-3.4.6/index.cgi

Installing Testopia
Unzip the tar to /var/www/bugzilla-3.4.6/

Then,
patch -p0 -i extensions/testopia/patch-3.4.4

./checksetup.pl

Install any missing required modules, e.g.
/usr/bin/perl install-module.pl JSON
/usr/bin/perl install-module.pl Text::Diff
/usr/bin/perl install-module.pl GD::Graph3d

./checksetup.pl
adds the missing tables. Now I can see the Testopia links at the bottom of the Bugzilla pages.

Eclipse and Tomcat and Maven

The optimal setup of a maven / eclipse / tomcat web project is setup as follows:

• [Download and install java 1.6]
• [Download and install Eclipse Galileo JEE]
• [Download and install Tomcat 6.0.x]
• Download SysDeo (eclipse-)plugin from http://www.eclipsetotale.com/tomcatPlugin.html
• Extract the zip to ECLIPSE_HOME/plugins
• [Re-]start eclipse with -clean option
• Set Tomcat version and home in Preferences - Tomcat
• Make sure Eclipse default JRE is a JDK
• Set your Eclipse project to be a Tomcat project: Project Properties - Tomcat
• Set a context path
• Set the Subdirectory to use as web app root to /src/main/webapp
• Activate DevLoader
• Check all jars, then uncheck test classes and servlet-api.jar
• Copy DevLoader.zip from ECLIPSE_HOME/plugins/SYSDEO to TOMCAT_HOME/lib and rename it to .jar