How to transfer and transform very large files (> 1 GB) without headaches…
While Web Services (SOAP or REST based) gets all the attention in the press, there are many companies still struggling with file transfers and transformation of very large files (for the scope of this blog defined as files of size > 1 GB). [...]
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Tags: large files, mule, SFTP, Smooks
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Soi-toolkit and the upcoming Mule Studio (currently in beta) are two tools that simplify development of services and integrations based on Mule ESB. This article describes how these two tools complement each other to make the development even more simplified (and fun ☺).
First a short introduction of the two tools and then an illustrated test [...]
Tags: mule, soi-toolkit
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Soi-toolkit adds value to the leading open source Mule ESB. Its makes it very easy to start building integrations and services.
You get projects setup including tests all based on Maven. You also get support for logging, property handling, WSDL and XML Schema creation and much more.
So how do you get started ? The Soi-toolkit website contains [...]
Tags: mule, soi-toolkit
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Background
How many databases/schemas does your project use ? One common setup is to have one for each staging environment (development, test, customer, education, qa, production) and one for each developer and tester in the project. Maybe you even need a set of schemas free to use for anyone at special occasions. If the application is [...]
Tags: database, liquibase
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In a project I have been working in recently a strange problem appeared.
We had a third-party dependency provided by the application server and as a consequence the same dependency marked as provided in our maven build script. In one of our own classes we called a static method in class supplied by the third-party dependency.
Foo.bar()
The [...]
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Imagine a service implementation having autowired dependencies like:
@Service
@Transactional(rollbackFor=ServiceException.class)
public class ManageDrugServiceImpl implements ManageDrugService {
@Autowired
private DrugPrescriptionManager drugPrescriptionManager;
@Autowired
private UserDAO userDao;
@Autowired
private DrugDAO drugDao;
@Override
public List getNewDrugsForUser() throws ServiceException {…
To test this above service in isolation and mock each dependency is not hard. Create a setter method for each dependency [...]
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What is it?
CDI is an abbreviation of “Contexts and Dependency Injection for the Java EE platform”. First of all, I’d like to stress that CDI is not only for Java EE environments. It is equally applicable to Java SE applications, unit tests and other out-of-container environments.
The specification (JSR-299) defines its declared capabilities as follows:
This specification [...]
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JAX-WS is the Java-standard for Web-Service XML to Java POJO binding. It entered the scene in Java EE 5 and Java SE 6. I wrote a blog entry a while back on it’s advantages over the predecessor (JAX-RPC). With WSDL-first (contract-first) design, Java POJO:s are generated from WSDL and XSD source files. The resulting Java [...]
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A really useful plugin to Eclipse is FindBugs, install the plugin and you can actually find bugs in your code.
It’s a good tool to use during projects, but also when performing code reviews. You can get a feeling quite quick on areas that are containing more problems than others. You can use the plugin and [...]
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I am amazed each time I am working with timestamps and calendars – how hard can it be? It’s hard to meet all requirement since each person is used to their own calendar. Latest I been implementing a calendar, to be displayed graphcial, in Eclipse RCP.
Imaging a calendar that is representing working hours for a factory [...]
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