Dependency Injection and Sisu

Dependency injection is certainly one of the most effective design patterns for writing clean, maintainable and testable code. For these reasons it's been very popular over the past few years and a number of libraries/frameworks have been created to provide support for dependency injection. The most...

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Tinybundles, a little gem for OSGi testing

In my OSGi applications I often make use of the OSGi extender pattern. An excellent example is available on Kai's Toedter blog. As Peter Kriens explained: In the Synchronous Bundle Listener event call back, the subsystem can look at the resources of the bundle and check if there is anything of its...

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Edit keyboard shortcuts in Nautilus 3.6

After upgrading to Ubuntu 13.04, I was a bit annoyed by a short-cut change: I have always used a lot BackSpace in Nautilus to go up one folder. Now, in Nautilus 3.6 this has been changed to ALT-UP. Luckily enough, even if there is no GUI for this, you can change Nautilus key bindings pretty easily....

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Global JNDI support in Virgo Server 3.5 for Tomcat

This rather long post analyses four solutions to the problem of using data sources, and more in general JNDI in Virgo, the 4th being the one I recommend and decided to use, which consists in leveraging Tomcat's built-in JNDI provider in Eclipse Virgo Server for Apache Tomcat. If you are not interested...

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Developing for Virgo server with Eclipse PDE

Last week I pushed to github an Eclipse plug-in released under the EPL license that allows using PDE plug-in projects with Virgo Tools. Source code, binaries and documentation are available here:   http://github.com/giamma/pde2virgo  The plug-in is pretty simple: it contributes a new builder...

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EclipseLink and extensible entitites

[Originally shared on G+ the 14th of August 2012] If you are interested in EclipseLink support for extensible entities, besides the official documentation you may want to have a look at this forum thread: http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/357791/880331/#msg_880331 The last post is...

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Eclipse and the Ubuntu global menu

[Originally shared on G+ the 7th of August 2012] For those working with Eclipse on Ubuntu, if you don't like the fact that the Eclipse menu does not blend into Unity's global menubar, you may want to try this hack https://bugs.launchpad.net/eclipse/+bug/618587/comments/46You may experience some...

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