Technobabble

The conf directory, JBoss v5.x

Ant — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:24:09 +0000

Configure what you need So you’re ready to configure some JBoss files? Great, lets have a look at the conf directory. The jboss/server/<configured instance>/conf directory is where you’ll find the majority of the configuration files for your jboss instance. For most deployments, the majority of these folders and files will remain untouched as they default [...]

Apache XSL-FO’ sho v1.0

Ant — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 04:39:36 +0000

Transforming XML into PDFs.. and stuff If you’ve ever been tasked with providing PDF documents via xsl, you’ve surely done some homework and shopped around for viable third party libraries. Some are good, some are great and rightly so charge a price, and some are just flat out incomplete or shanty in their documentation. It’s [...]

Sardine powered webdav client?

Ant — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:14:04 +0000

Extra Sardines on my pizza please A few days ago I came across the need for an easy to use webdav client. Currently we’re using jakarta slide, which as it turns out is a project that was discontinued (as of fall 2007!), and whose code base as of this writing is practically 10 years old. [...]

Sending Attachments with the Javamail 1.4.x API

Ant — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:06:08 +0000

Make your emails interesting with attachments! Not that your emails aren’t already interesting – if you have some kind of regular job running and you want to produce a results bound file sent to your recipients as an attachment, this code example can illustrate one way it can be done. It’s pretty much the same [...]

The Deploy vs Deployers directory, JBoss v5.x

Ant — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:28:18 +0000

Tae Bo for JBoss! JBoss ships with a few configurations that are meant to provide examples of how JBoss can be configured for your environment. It’s recommend you take the “default” configuration (or “all” if you require clustering), and then slim it down by removing the various mbean components found in the “jboss/server/<configured instance>/deployers” and [...]

Jars and Class Loading, Jboss v5.x

Ant — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:40:22 +0000

So where do I put all my jars? As you write your applications you’re bound to leverage third party libraries to cut down on the amount of work; lets face it no one wants to reinvent the wheel. A downside is sometimes these third party libraries might not be the most mature or stable releases [...]