Just came home from a very interesting conference a couple of days ago. I still feel a bit jet lagged after the long trip over the atlantic ocean from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but it was really worth the effort.
Fort Lauderdale was greeting us with a comfortable wintery weather with temperatures at around 25°C so it [...]

This post is the first in a series of two blog posts where I will try to give some usefull tips on how to make your spring applications more configurable. Too often I see application configuration files embedded somewhere deep down in the application referenced only by its classpath location.
<context:property-placeholder location=”classpath:config.properties” />
By injecting the configurations [...]

Having used subversion for a long time I wanted to learn how to use a distributed versioning system. The selling points for these products are very interesting.
For instance the possibility to separate commit from delivery seems like a nice option.
If you work on something that takes a couple of days to do, you want to [...]

Backgroud
In my current project we have found that test using a slightly larger unit than single classes makes a lot of sense. Typically there is a service class with some methods that calls a number of entity objects to interact with the database. So our unit under test is often the service class, some entity [...]

Suppose you have an web application with a service layer implemented by spring beans and want to get a richer user interface ? One way to do it to use Flex.
Parts of the Flex development platform has become Open Source. What you absolutely need is addition to that is the Flex Builder. It enables debugging [...]

Integrating the Eclipse environment with Maven has always been a challenge, as we have reported upon before. I want the productivity of the Eclipse IDE and the expressive power, consistency and repeatability of Maven. But a fundamental difference in the underlying paradigms of Eclipse versus Maven have made that coexistence awkward and ugly:

Eclipse assumes all [...]

Skapa biblioteksstruktur
Om du inte redan har en struktur för utvecklingsverktyg, föreslås denna:

Installera Groovy (behövs senare för IDE:n)

Ladda hem Groovy 1.5.4 från http://dist.groovy.codehaus.org/distributions/groovy-binary-1.5.4.zip till Development/Tools/
Packa upp distributionen i Tools-biblioteket. När du är klar ska Tools innehålla biblioteket groovy-1.5.4
Sätt GROOVY_HOME till katalogen groovy-1.5.4

Installera Grail (med Groovy)

Ladda hem Grails 1.0.1 här: http://dist.codehaus.org/grails/grails-bin-1.0.1.zip
Packa upp till Development/Tools/. Du ska då [...]

Today is Valentine’s day and if you haven’t yet thought about what you are doing for your loved one tonight, you’d better start now. It’s winter now (at least here in Sweden) and you don’t want to be out in the cold, do you…? Well, anyway, I think you can agree with me that one [...]