Year: 2014
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Year in review
The year 2015 is almost here so it’s time to take a short review what I wrote this year and plan for the next. In 2014 I managed to wrote almost monthly and got together total of 14 articles covering topics of software development, WebLogic issues, Sailfish OS, user experience and gadgets.… Jatka lukemista →
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Getting Git Right in Helsinki
Software development is fun if you have tools which work great and support what you’re doing. So it was finally great to get hear Sven Peters talking about better software development in teams as Atlassian’s Getting Git Right landed to Helsinki (24.11.2014). Event about Git and of course about Atlassian’s tools.… Jatka lukemista →
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Authentication with LDAP provider in WebLogic gets stuck
Lately we upgraded our Java EE applications to new platform and began seeing stuck threads and slow starting times. The platform was upgraded from OC4J to WebLogic 12c and also the underlying LDAP service was changed to Oracle Access Manager. Looking at the server logs the one possible reason for stuck threads was quite clear:…
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Planning for Fujitsu Forum 2014: Human Centric Innovation
In late November it’s again time for business- and IT decision-makers, experts, project managers, IT architects, consultants and bloggers to travel to Munich, Germany to visit Fujitsu’s largest IT-event in Europe: Fujitsu Forum 2014. This year the event is held 19th and 20th November at the ICM in Munich and there will probably be over…
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Distribute project’s artifacts in Maven Central with OSSRH
You have developed some crafty Java library or Maven plugin and now you want to distribute it to other users through Maven Central repository? Using Sonatype Open Source Software Repository Hosting Service is a nice way for open source projects to achieve that and there’s two options to get your artifacts in it: 1.… Jatka…
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Monitor and profile application with Java Mission Control
Monitoring Java applications is can be done with different tools and with JDK you get one good tool for it: Java Mission Control. Java Mission Control and Java Flight Recorder together create a complete tool chain to continuously collect low level and detailed runtime information enabling after-the-fact incident analysis. Starting with Oracle JDK 7 Update…
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Sailfish OS User Interface design practices
The operating system running on Jolla has different and refreshing approach to user experience than the mainstream mobile operating systems. Sailfish OS is quite new project which also shows in applications’ user interfaces as common practices are not quite established. There are some guidelines and component usage examples how the applications should be built but…
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Weblogic 12c and Managed Server in incompatible state
Oracle WebLogic application server (WLS) is quite a behemoth and usually works much better than e.g. OC4J which we previously had to use. But sometimes things don’t go as they should and it gets stuck. Some time ago my managed Server was in “FORCE_SHUTTING_DOWN” state and when trying to restart it I got an error…
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Using the WebLogic 12c Maven Plug-In for Deployment
Using the WebLogic 12c 12.1.2 Maven plug-In for deployment is much easier and quicker than going through the WebLogic Server’s AdminServer and Oracle Documentation provides good examples how to do it. The weblogic-maven-plugin provides enhanced functionality to install, start and stop servers, create domains, execute WLST scripts, and compile and deploy applications.… Jatka lukemista →
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Maven plugin to generate HTML from Markdown now in Maven Central
Generating documents is always not the most pleasant job but it can be made easier by using easier markup language like Markdown. For that purpose I made last year a simple Markdown to HTML Page Generator Maven Plugin and now it’s also available in Maven Central. “Markdown to HTML Page Generator” is a simple Maven…