Rage Against the Android – Nearly solved! #eclipse #netbeans

After ranting against Android in my previous post I have mainly solved now the untestable situation Android is producing. Thanks to Robolectric all my tests are finally fast and do not unpredictable hang or similar! The tests execute nearly as fast as in a normal Maven project – plus additional 2 seconds to bootstrap (dex?). Robolectric … Continue reading »

Rage Against the Android #eclipse

Developing Android applications on Linux with Eclipse sometimes can get really ugly. Sadly neither NetBeans which has a really nice Android plugin, but cannot execute a single test nor IDEA can rescue me or make me switching but probably they wouldn’t rescue me due to problems of Android development kit itself – I’m not sure. … Continue reading »

Java Application Frameworks (not only client side …)

In an old post I listed all Java libraries,where only two application frameworks were listed. Today it is time to list some client side Java application frameworks, because I discovered some new ones while reading the W-JAX announcement. Some of the listed frameworks will make developing application with DB easier. And some of them are … Continue reading »

Plugable Spring RC? (OSGi with Spring Rich Client)

My last post was about pure Swing, which could be easily OSGified. OSGi technologie can be e.g. used to hotdeploy or undeploy jar files to your application server (at the moment only Spring’s server is suggested) or simply to update your Swing application at runtime or write plugins for them. I don’t know for sure, … Continue reading »

Hints for Mavenization of Java Web Applications

I discovered that it is not that easy to transform a web application from a native eclipse/netbeans project to a maven project. Here are some hints which can make your life easier: To create the project structure for the web application use this command: mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=de.mycompany.app123 -DartifactId=mywebapp -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp Be sure you replaced the 2.3 … Continue reading »

Encoding issues. Solutions for linux and within Java apps.

Puh, encoding! Did you ever have trouble with it? No? You must be a lucky guy! Even none-developers should have problems with it e.g. if they use different operating systems. What is encoding? And what’s so difficult with the encoding? First encoding (better: character encoding) defines how characters have to be saved to be displayed … Continue reading »

Real Time Editing with Eclipse and NetBeans

Do you know what real time editing is? No, then look at this fantastic video to see this feature in Eclipse. Or browse through this tutorial. It is really great. I love NetBeans. So is there something similar for NetBeans? Yes! There is a collaboration plugin, but I tried it for myself and, sorry, it … Continue reading »

Java Web Frameworks Survey

Introduction Recently I began to play with Eclipse and web frameworks, because I will use Eclipse at work and there I will program with JSP. Another reason for this web-framework-survey is that I need a web front-end for my open source project Jetwick. I love Swing so I looked how easy it is to program … Continue reading »

First Steps in Eclipse

Why Eclipse? Some days in the past I decided to try out eclipse 3.3.2. A lot of people are using it here in Germany and especially companies develop new plugins for it – it is a kind of an industry standard. I always felt a little bit hassle when people are talking about eclipse and … Continue reading »

Eclipse and Spring in Small Doses

Introduction Today I will write about a tutorial for spring and eclipse beginners. The original ‘Spring in Small Doses’ was posted here from Tiago Brito Spindola. Because I never really used eclipse I will try to describe additional steps, which will be necessary for eclipse newbies and I hope someone could benefit from it.I am … Continue reading »