I was recently asked the question about the conditions under which I would choose SOAP vs REST for writing a Web Service. I was thoroughly intrigued by the question, because I was curious in which way the discussion would go, as that would tell me a…
Category: Java
Finding a decent OpenJPA standalone example is very difficult. The one I’ve created on github does not provide any sort of complex example, but it at least shows how to get started with a standalone Open JPA application, with a maven build.
While you can find this information on the derby website, in a grossly large Derby Basics document, isn’t it nicer to just copy and paste? I just don’t understand why developers like to write documents that make you take so much time to get started.
So, I decided to get an apache tomcat 7 rpm going. I ended up finding someone who had created one, and then made it work a little bit better. I had one guy that used to be a fedora RPM contributor help out a bit…
After fiddling with a few different styles of coding a database upgrade implementation for Android, I’ve settled on a fairly simple method. Basically, I take the old version, and increment a counter until I get to the current version. Through each iteration, I use switch…
I’ve seen a lot of examples of how to send email from an android application. All of them result in applications coming up in a chooser list that are not appropriate for sending email. In this post, I’ll described the various solutions I found, and…
I went looking, and looking, and looking, for a solution to this problem. None of them seemed to fit the bill. I tried… updating proguard not using libraries I shouldn’t be re-importing the project removing duplicate android jars removing all android jars a host of…
In third part of the android hello world video, we explain the different components of the application, and why things are done in a certain way. This video is a bit raw. However, rather than editing the videos, I’m going to try and improve my…
Part 3 – Code Explained Okay, I’ve finished another android development demo video. Sorry it took so long, I got really busy with a new computer and what not, and life in general. In the next video in this series, I will explain the details…
I should have blogged about this long ago, as I feel that this is a very useful way of debugging unit tests with maven. This is especially so if you’re primarily a command line sort of guy like myself. All that is required to be…