Changing Ports With Grails / May 05, 2009

February 01, 2011

Mark Wielaard: New GPG key. Finally created a new GPG key using gnupg. The old one was a DSA/1024 bits one and 8 years old. The new one is a RSA/2048 bits one. I will use the new one in the future to sign any release tarballs I might create. pub 2048R/57816A6A 2011-01-29 Key f...

February 01, 2011

Andrew Hughes: [SECURITY] IcedTea6 1.7.8, 1.8.5, 1.9.5 Released!. We are pleased to announce a new set of security releases, IcedTea6 1.7.8, IcedTea6 1.8.5 and IcedTea6 1.9.5. This update contains the following security updates: The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK6 u...

May/2009

May 05, 2009

Changing ports with Grails

When you run a Grails application from the command line (using grails run-app, for example), it will run on port 8080 by default. This also applies when Grails runs web tests such as Selenium, Canoo webtest or HTMLUnit. If you...

What do you call a...well, that's the problem

A few of months ago I blogged about a simple but powerful pattern for working with Objects not key/value pairs - use dynamic proxies to generate an implementation of an interface, which delegates to the backing storage transparently. It's ready to b...

Rails Conf 2009 - Day 1 Trip Report

Rails Conf 2009 started this morning. The first day consists of morning and afternoon tutorials. I attended Nick Sieger's JRuby on Rails tutorial, the slides are available. A survey in the room showed: 95% comfortable with Ruby/Rails 80% have used J...

Using Felix Web Console in GlassFish v3

Earlier I had written how one could use Apache Felix Remote Shell to administer OSGi runtime hosting GlassFish v3. This time, I shall be showing how you can use Felix Web Console to do the same.

Father of Java at Jazoon?

There's an interesting initiative (read my blog for more details) that has just started to invite James Gosling to attend Jazoon Conference this year, on behalf of the community. Are you interested to see him at Zurich? Why not invite him then?

EJB Almanac @Stateful

How do you declare a class to be a stateful session bean?

Rails Conf 2009 Day 2 - DHH Keynote

Rails Conf Day 2 start with DHH's keynote. The room was packed (close to 1200 attendees) and SRO. It was interesting to know that 70% of the attendees are first timers and only a handful have attended for all 4 years in a...

Can JavaFX Compete?

Sun's Joshua Marinacci, who works on the development of JavaFX, was recently interviewed by Scott Hanselman, in a podcast titled "JavaFX and the Web's Four Virtual Machines"... also: Java Today: JavaFX and the Web's Four Virtual Machines, A Hudson Re...