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Sardine powered webdav client?

July 28, 2010 / posted in Java / No Comments

Extra Sardines on my pizza please

A few days ago I came across the need for an easy to use webdav client. Currently we’re using jakarta slide, which as it turns out is a project that was discontinued (as of fall 2007!), and whose code base as of this writing is practically 10 years old. Who wants those jars collecting dust in their lib directories? Sure it works, but hey, I’m trying to keep up with the Jones’ here, I’d like an up-to-date library that hasn’t been discontinued.

Dismayed, I took a look a the replacement suggested…

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Sending Attachments with the Javamail 1.4.x API

July 25, 2010 / posted in Java / No Comments

Make your emails interesting with attachments!

Not that your emails aren’t already interesting – if you have some kind of regular job running and you want to produce a results bound file sent to your recipients as an attachment, this code example can illustrate one way it can be done. It’s pretty much the same thing as sending a regular email except that it uses multipart attachments as the body content of the message:

package com.faceroller.mail;

public class Mailer {

	private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(Mailer.class);

	public static void send(Email email)
			throws MessagingException, NamingException, IOException {

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The Deploy vs Deployers directory, JBoss v5.x

July 23, 2010 / posted in Jboss / No Comments

Tae Bo for JBoss!

JBoss ships with a few configurations that are meant to provide examples of how JBoss can be configured for your environment. It’s recommend you take the “default” configuration (or “all” if you require clustering), and then slim it down by removing the various mbean components found in the “jboss/server/<configured instance>/deployers” and “jboss/server/<configured instance>/deploy” folders until only your minimum requirements are met. If you deploy JBoss with everything as it is, you’re going to end up wasting system resources on services that your application is going to use. For example, if your application doesn’t make any use…

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Jars and Class Loading, Jboss v5.x

July 15, 2010 / posted in Jboss / 3 Comments

So where do I put all my jars?

As you write your applications you’re bound to leverage third party libraries to cut down on the amount of work; lets face it no one wants to reinvent the wheel. A downside is sometimes these third party libraries might not be the most mature or stable releases to date. As your product grows and matures, or you expand your client base or number of implementations, you’re bound to come across multiple third party library dependencies, even ones across the same library but different versions, what a headache! How can we organize these…

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