Yesterday I attended the BeJUG session on Lambda expressions in Java 8, which was given by professor Eric Steegmans from the K.U.Leuven. Although Java 8 is scheduled to be released next year, it was nice to already learn about it. In this post you will find some points made in the session and a few personal observations. Required [...]
Jan Van den Bergh
Due to various contractual & legal circumstances you might sometimes be required to provide an escrow package to your customer. With regards to software this means you need to provide enough data for the client to be able to continue maintenance of the code in case of bankruptcy of your company or failure to comply to the terms of [...]
Dorien Jorissen
It took some time, but december 2011 Oracle released Weblogic 12c and finally Weblogic became fully JEE6 certified. 12.1.1.0 became the version number of this release. How about subsequent releases of Weblogic 12c after then? Here’s the answer. On 15/mar/2012 the Oracle download site provided us other installation binaries. Since [...]
Dorien Jorissen
Sometimes you need to be able to determine where exactly time is being spent in your JSF web application. Luckily there is something in the JSF specification that can help us with this task: PhaseListener. A JSF PhaseListener is a mechanism that’s similar to a Java web application filter. It’s a simple interface that a [...]
Dorien Jorissen
Typically, the creation of JSP hooks in Liferay is a time consuming task because of the limited support (code completion, compilation, …) you get from your IDE and the resulting trial-and-error process. For each cycle of this trial process, the developer needs to initiate a new build and deploy of the WAR and wait until the WAR has [...]
Peter Mesotten
The awkward moment when your login credentials do not work when you quickly need to make some changes, the embarrassment of not remembering the only administrator login when your colleague needs them. Your administrator credentials are lost. It has probably happened to quite a few of us. This can be very problematic when dealing with the [...]
Thomas Metten
If you want to run Oracle XE on OSX you’ll quickly run into the problem that Oracle only provides a Windows & Linux, but not an OSX specific version. This means we’ll need to run Oracle XE in some sort of virtualized environment and for this we’ll use the freely available Oracle VirtualBox (version 4.8.2 [...]
Dorien Jorissen
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