Knowledge base

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Spring configuration inheritance
24 November, 2008 - 15:15
(1 comments)

Having to configure 34 almost identical beans with spring, I decided to RTFM. It's very easy if you know...

Network module on a Server with an Intel 82575EB
21 November, 2008 - 17:44
(5 comments)
thijs

We got us a new server! 16 Cores and 40GB of memory should make a nice virtualization server. So I decided to install the latest Ubuntu, 8.10 Server, on it. It turns out the network card (Intel 82575EB) is not recognized by the install procedure, so I had to install the right module afterwards. It was a bit of a hassle so I decided to document it.

Terracotta with Tomcat setup
10 October, 2008 - 09:39
(4 comments)
thijs

This is a brief setup of a Terracotta cluster together with Tomcat on 2 nodes. Each node has a terracotta instance and a Tomcat instance.

Eclipse and static imports
8 October, 2008 - 09:33
(3 comments)
martin

Here is a way to fix static imports and make them available for code auto-complete (CTRL + space)

EasyMock 2.4: capturing arguments passed to mock objects
22 September, 2008 - 14:49
(0 comments)
rommert

EasyMock2 is a library that provides an easy way to create on-the-fly mock objects based on interfaces. It can be used in combination with JUnit to create simple and powerful unit tests. Here's an overview of the basic EasyMock flow, followed by a brief example that demonstrates a new feature in EasyMock 2.4: capturing arguments passed to MockObjects.

Eclipse abbreviated package names
15 September, 2008 - 16:58
(1 comments)
martin

"Another useful Eclipse trick is to use abbreviated package names. It's a nice feature on projects where you're inflicted with super.long.package.name.syndrome. Go to Window -> Preferences -> Java -> Appearance. Check the Compress all package names checkbox and type 1. in the text field."

Installing Xen on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon Server
1 September, 2008 - 13:54
(0 comments)
thijs
This install guide is based on the HowToForge article.
Install Xen 3.2.0 from source
25 August, 2008 - 13:40
(0 comments)
thijs
Because of problems with the standard Ubuntu xen packages, I decided to try to build the latest Xen, just to see what you get building from source. Unfortunately the install is not really clear, it simply says to make world but then you get complaints about missing linux-2.6.18-xen.hg. It turns out External link mark you need to install mercurial (similar to svn, cvs) and get the thing from the xensource site.