Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of instability and memory issues in Eclipse (Europa) with WTP, both in my own use, from co-workers, and on IRC. Today, a friend sent me this link which appears to show the cause for at least some of these issues. It appears the latest release used:
–launcher.XXMaxPermSize256m
in the eclipse.ini to […]

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Having finally got Hibernate Tools working with a project I’m working on, I was pretty excited - the HQL console and auto-complete features are going to save us tons of time, specifically, time spent re-deploying the web application as we debug JPQL queries. Time spent redeploying an application is wasted time and can sometimes eat […]

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One tricky thing I’ve seen people have trouble with (and at one point had some trouble with myself..) is the way events fired by listeners are processed in JSF - specifically, how exceptions are handled. The symptom is easy to see - exceptions are being thrown in methods called by these listeners, but aren’t being […]

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(Note: This article is a bunch of high-level thoughts and tips I’ve come up with over the last little while. For more in-depth and comprehensive Hibernate information, I highly recommend Java Persistence with Hibernate)
A little over a year ago, I joined the project in part to add some Hibernate expertise. Since then, we have been […]

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I use Java almost 100% of the time in my day job. I think it is perfectly suited for what we do and love working with it. I also do work on the side and am really struggling to use Java for that stuff.
I actually think that with some really cool developments made over the […]

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It seems like once a month or so, someone comes out with an article about the ‘real’ problem with JSF, how JSF is dead in the water, or how bad it is. I think uninformed articles like these are the biggest problem with JSF right now - go to a JEE forum and read JSF […]

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Despite using Eclipse for several years now, I’ve only recently started to use a really cool feature - templates. It may seem a bit silly at first, but it has been a very useful feature for us. Why?
- Saves a small amount of typing - it adds up though
- It helps cut down typos or […]

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Ah, what a fun weekend.. I’m working on a few projects using Seam right now, and I wanted a way to deploy them out onto an actual server so that other people could look at them. Normally, you’d have a dedicated server for running Java apps, but those are kinda pricey, especially for while you […]

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