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Comment on Spring Security Database Schema by richfreedman

richfreedman — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:22:46 +0000

I fixed the links – they should be available now.
By the way, this information is a bit old now – you should take a look at Spring Security 3.0 – it’s a lot easier now, especially with Roo

Comment on Spring Security Database Schema by Michael

Michael — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:22:42 +0000

The whitepaper and examples are not in the indicated location. Do they still exist somewhere?

Comment on An Accordion Panel for Swing by richfreedman

richfreedman — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:46:03 +0000

Bob,

You may do as you wish with respect to my changes to the original code – since I posted it publicly with no license, it’s public domain (if not by default, then I hereby declare it so).
However, what I published were changes to someone else’s code that was also posted publicly, apparently with no license.
I suggest that you also check with the original author (see the original post).

Comment on An Accordion Panel for Swing by Bob

Bob — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:34:16 +0000

Hello,

under which licence do you publish the JAccordion.java? Can one use it even for commercial apps?

Comment on Maven pom file for Spring 2.5 Web Project by richfreedman

richfreedman — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:27:58 +0000

Dominik,
I’m glad this helped you, but the post is now a year and a half old, and the world has moved on.

Firstly, Spring is now at version 3, and has many improvements. If you are just starting a new Spring project, you really should use version 3 instead of 2.5

Secondly, there’s no longer any reason to manually configure a pom for starting a Spring app. Spring has released Roo, which, among other things, will create a customized ppm for you.

Comment on Maven pom file for Spring 2.5 Web Project by Dominik

Dominik — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:47:52 +0000

Thanks a lot middle-age.
Your post saved by day!

Comment on Keeping It DRY – Automation of Repetitive Tasks by killall

killall — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 01:23:33 +0000

or there’s killall jboss

Comment on Hierarchical SQL Queries and Hibernate by richfreedman

richfreedman — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:59:21 +0000

Excellent question.
Frankly, I didn’t.

This is essentially a copy of the code from org.hibernate.id.IncrementGenerator, with some additional processing to encode the resulting Long into a fixed-width String.

Just off the top of my head, I’d probably re-factor this class to:

1. subclass org.hibernate.id.IncrementGenerator instead of re-implementing most of it.

2. move the string manipulation code to a separate class, so that it could be easily unit-tested without involving the database.

3. Write a unit test that mocks the database.

4. Write an integration test that uses dbUnit.

Comment on Hierarchical SQL Queries and Hibernate by kissen

kissen — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:35:57 +0000

How you UNIT TEST this class??

Comment on VirtualBox vs. VMware on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala by richfreedman

richfreedman — Sun, 16 May 2010 21:42:05 +0000

fritzelshitszl – I share your frustration with the operating system from Redmond.
However, VirtualBox and VMWare are not just better ways to run applications written for that OS.

I use VMWare and VirtualBox on my Linux machines primarily to run additional Linux VMs.

I personally don’t care that folks spend their time writing applications for the most commercially successful operating system.
What I do mind is when they write applications that only work on that operating system.
As I may have mentioned elsewhere, my wife runs a small business, and uses QuickBooks – there’s really no viable alternative. Consequently, there’s a copy of Windows XP running on VirtualBox on my Linux server at all times :-(