Java: Near to the Barking SealsJava development, J2EE, IDEs, XML, SOAP, toolsIdeas for Eclipse Books- March 31, 2003 These are suggestions I sent to the mailing list for the Eclipse Powered book, but I think these can apply to any potential book on the Eclipse IDE. Starting with a practical perspective, these are things I think people (like myself) are likely to need to do with Eclipse and plugins, and so warrant some sort of coverage in a book on Eclipse. In no particular order, here are some topics I'd consider useful. Writing a new syntax-aware editor, for...http://www.jroller.com/ericfj/entry/ideas_for_eclipse_books Fix for FreeRoller Ekit Applet CopyPaste Failure- March 20, 2003 I've been struggling with the Ekit text-editor applet for entering Weblog entries here on FreeRoller. After I installed J2SE 1.4.1, copy and paste failed in all versions of Mozilla, as well as Netscape and Internet Explorer, all on Windows 2000. The Ekit text-editor applet will not paste text from the clipboard. Furthermore, text copied into the clipboard from it will not paste into other applications. All of this worked before, though.I tracked...http://www.jroller.com/ericfj/entry/fix_for_freeroller_ekit_applet Sun's Lack of since Tags Makes Me See Color.RED- March 19, 2003 The since javadoc tag is a very important way to let you know when a class, method, or variable was introduced. Because many projects have to support older versions of APIs, since tags alert you to avoid features that are newer than the API level you must support. For example, XML-parsing libraries were introduced in J2SE 1.4 as standard libraries. If you are using J2SE 1.3, a very common requirement, you need an extra library because the J2SE 1.3 API .http://www.jroller.com/ericfj/entry/sun_s_lack_of_since Eclipse RC2 Looks Good- March 11, 2003 The Eclipse Java IDE has reached another milestone, 2.1 Release Candidate 2, or RC2. After downloading and testing at two sites, the RC2 release seems to work just fine. The only difference from RC1 that I have noted is that the default text-editor font on Windows seems larger. Everything else is the same old Eclipse, working great. And, as usual, there is no news of this event on the Eclipse Web site.Download Eclipse from eclipse.org. Thanks again to...http://www.jroller.com/ericfj/entry/eclipse_rc2_looks_good Finished Red Hat RPM Guide- March 5, 2003 Well, mostly finished. I've completed all the text and the first rounds of editing. All that remains is proofreading and publishing. I haven't been writing much for a couple of years, so I had a great time getting back into writing books. I cannot thank the great folks at Red Hat enough. Everyone I worked with at Red Hat was very helpful.The Red Hat RPM Guide covers the RPM Package Manager, or RPM, used to install, upgrade, and remove packages on most...http://www.jroller.com/ericfj/entry/finished_red_hat_rpm_guide Generating Javadoc From Ant- March 5, 2003 Here's an Ant target that generates the Javadoc API references. You can use this as a template for your own Ant build scripts. <target name="apidocs" depends="init"> &160;<javadoc packagenames="com.foo." &160;&160;sourcepath="$my_sources"&160;&160;destdir="builddocs" &160;&160;version="false"&160;&160;use="true" ...http://www.jroller.com/ericfj/entry/generating_javadoc_from_ant AurigaDoc Ant Targets- March 5, 2003 AurigaDoc Instead of DocBook I use the following Ant targets to build AurigaDoc manuals into PDF and multi-page HTML versions, respectively.The following target builds a PDF manual:<target name="pdf_manual" depends="docdist_prepare" >&160;<echo message="Generating $manual PDF " >&160;<mkdir dir="$docbuild_dir$manual" >&160;<java classname="org.apache.fop.apps.Fop"...http://www.jroller.com/ericfj/entry/aurigadoc_ant_targets AurigaDoc Instead of DocBook- March 5, 2003 Faced with the prospect of having no documentation person on a project and yet still having a requirement to produce both printed and online manuals, I looked for some tool that might help. Just editing files with Microsoft Word wouldn't work, because the HTML it generates has always been yucky. DocBook came to the fore as a good and relatively standard choice for creating a document once, in XML, and then transforming that document into HTML for online..http://www.jroller.com/ericfj/entry/aurigadoc_instead_of_docbook Service Locator Pattern and SOAP Web Services- March 5, 2003 This is such a no-brainer to me, I am surprised at how difficult this is with a number of SOAP libraries.Problem: We have a set of objects available within a J2EE Web application. We'd like to expose some of the objects as SOAP Web services, but, our application needs to manage the lifecycle of the objects. Furthermore, we want to only expose some methods on each object, not all public methods. For example, object-lifecycle methods (initialization,..http://www.jroller.com/ericfj/entry/service_locator_pattern_and_soap Eclipse Tip: Remove Splat Imports- March 4, 2003 Within the Eclipse Java Integrated Development Environment, you can select a set of Java imports and then choose the right-mouse menu choice for Source->Organize Imports. This not only reorders the imports according to your preference settings, it also removes all imports that are not used. If you have selected a "splat" import, such as the following, Eclipse has an additional nice surprise:import javax.swing.;Eclipse will remove the splat...http://www.jroller.com/ericfj/entry/eclipse_tip_remove_splat_imports |