Author Archives: Matt

OCZ Vertex Plus SSD vs. MacBook

Posted on 2012/01/12

After the HD in my old (2006) white MacBook started making funny noises I decided – despite its age, as it is still working fine otherwise – to upgrade it to an SSD. The OCZ Vertex Plus 240GB seemed like … Continue reading →

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Scripting using JSR 223 in an OSGi environment

Posted on 2011/09/07

When providing scripting in a Java application, scripting engines conforming to JSR 223 (e.g. Groovy, JRuby, Scala, …) can easily be embedded using something along the lines of However, in an OSGi-based application, the ScriptEngineManager fails to discover scripting engines … Continue reading →

Posted in Java, OSGi | 2 Comments

git HTTP push fails with error “RPC failed”

Posted on 2011/09/07

Today, I had the problem that git failed to push a large change set to a HTTP remote with the errors HTTP error code 403: remote hung up unexpectedly and RPC failed; result=22. After some googling around I figured that … Continue reading →

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Maven: Check for dependecy and plugin updates

Posted on 2011/07/16

Ever wanted to check if there are updates for any of your Maven project dependencies or plugins? It’s as easy as doing mvn versions:display-dependency-updates versions:display-plugin-updates From Maven Versions Plugin.

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Eclipse Jubula Automated Test Ant File

Posted on 2011/07/14

As a followup to my previous post on automating Eclipse Jubula tests with Jenkins, here’s an Ant file that Extracts the target platform (Eclipse in this case) and Jubula’s instrumentation plugin Deploys the plugins under test into the target platform … Continue reading →

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Automating Eclipse Jubula Tests with Jenkins

Posted on 2011/06/14

Eclipse Jubula is a pretty new addition to the Eclipse universe. It’s a functional UI testing tool that allows you to specify and run tests. The tests are not code-based but can be assembled from available building blocks or recorded … Continue reading →

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Masquerade Service Simulator 0.9.1

Posted on 2011/05/31

Masquerade Service Simulator 0.9.1 has been released. It comes with some bug fixes and a few new features: Fixed class loading issues in standalone mode Added XPathAlternativesRequestIdProvider Added Tibco EMS connection factory provider Provide (default) option to not persist request … Continue reading →

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Configuring Maven Mirrors

Posted on 2011/05/23

Configuring a Maven mirror might be a good idea for example when You live in Europe and the UK mirror is faster for your repo1.maven.org is experiencing troubles It was only yesterday when repo1.maven.org was down that I learned how … Continue reading →

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Masquerade Service Simulator Released

Posted on 2011/05/04

A first version of Masquerade Service Simulator has been released. Masquerade is a configurable Service Simulator that returns simulated responses for service requests. Service stubs can easily be implemented using Masquerade. Simply run Masquerade standalone using its embedded Jetty server … Continue reading →

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Vaadin Widgetset Compilation with Maven

Posted on 2011/04/29

Joram has written an interesting post on how to avoid having Maven recompile the Widgetset for a Vaadin project with every build: http://www.jorambarrez.be/blog/2011/04/28/howto-vaadin-addon-maven/ Our continuous integration turnaround time for Vaadin projects has dropped to a few seconds without the GWT … Continue reading →

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