City LifeCity LifeRhino and E4X - Sounds Great! Does It Work- July 30, 2005 I got all fired up to try Rhino 1.6R1 with E4X, as described in Jon Udell's blog last September. It would be very cool to have a Java-compatible way to access XML without the grief of the Java XML APIs! Only one problem. As Chico Marx would say: No worka fa me. Maybe I just made some dumb mistake. I downloaded the latest XMLBeans zip from Apache and Rhino from Mozilla. Then I copied xbean.jar from XMLBeanslib to the Rhino folder. Then... D:rhino1_6R1dir D:rhino1_6R1xbean.jar Volume in drive D.http://www.jroller.com/bobfoster/entry/rhino_and_e4x_sounds_great Law of Diminishing Leaks- July 27, 2005 I just re-read Joel Spotsky's Law of Leaky Abstractions. In a nutshell, all abstractions "leak" because they don't—and can't—entirely hide what they're made of. The implementation leaks through, sometimes to the extent you can't get the abstraction to work without dealing directly with its inner mechanism. This, I would say, is an important idea. It explains something both fundamental and universal. But there's something missing from it, which for lack of a better term I would call.http://www.jroller.com/bobfoster/entry/law_of_diminishing_leaks Eclipse Cookbook: Making Nice With Other Editors- July 16, 2005 Problem. Your Eclipse editor plug-in works great when it's installed by itself, but users report that sometimes it can't open files, sometimes they get "File changed on file system" every time they open a file with it. Or they report that your editor seems to make other editors stop working! What's going on Diagnosis. These kinds of conflict are caused by your editor still using the Eclipse 2.0-compatible API for installing its partitioner. Even though this API is still "supported" it's...http://www.jroller.com/bobfoster/entry/eclipse_cookbook_making_nice_with |