This is just a quick tip how to enable auto completion in PyDev for indirectly created objects. By default, PyDev has no problems in presenting you the possible object attributes and methods on a variable if that variable gets a new object instance assigned directly in the code. For example, when you first type ……
OVal 1.40 released
I am happy to announce the immediate availability of Version 1.40 OVal the Object Validation Framework for Java. This release fixes some minor issues and provides the following two new features: 1. Enabling/disabling constraints based on the object state: Using the newly introduced when attribute for constraints it is possible to specify under which circumstances…
Installing WebSphere Portal in a local network
Recently I had to setup some WebSphere Portal 6.1 installations in VMWares within a private network. Unfortunately the portal installer aborted with the following message “EJPIC0067E: Portal requires a fully qualified host name that is recoganized by the DNS Server.” Even when adding the fully qualified hostname to the hosts file the installer may still…
Comparing version numbers in Jython / Python
Here comes a function to compare version numbers of e.g. Maven artifacts in Jython / Python. import re def cmpver(vA, vB): “”” Compares two version number strings @param vA: first version string to compare @param vB: second version string to compare @author Sebastian Thomschke @return negative if vA < vB, zero if vA == vB,...
Running TomCat 6 in Debug Mode under Windows
While tracing some problems in one of my grails applications I had the need to do step debugging on a remote Tomcat server. Eventually I came up with the following lines to launch TomCat in debug mode: @echo off set JPDA_TRANSPORT=”dt_socket” set JPDA_ADDRESS=”8000″ set JPDA_SUSPEND=”y” catalina.bat jpda start Simply create a debug.bat file in TomCat’s…
Determine the user who logged on via SSH
Today we had the need to determine the initial id of a user who logged onto a Linux box via SSH and executed the su command. When the su command is issued the effective user is changed and whoami or id commands will report that new user id instead. For anyone who is interested, that…