Maven wrapper is a cool tool thing for running maven builds with the correct maven version. This introduces a script that is already known for gradle. Simply type m on the command line and run the maven wrapper. Even in case the wrapper is not in the current directory. Continue reading
TikaThe project is hosted by the Apache Software Foundation. It supports detecting various file and content types. There is a full list of supported formats. When having a look at the list that displays the supported formats, many document formats are listed in there. E.g. text/plain, text/xml, the propritary Microsoft OOXML or the office standard Open Document. Furthermore images (image/gif, image/jpeg, image/bmp or image/tiff), videos (video/avi, video/mpgeg or video/mp4) and audios (audi/ogg, audio/x-wav or audio/mpeg) can be recognized by Tika. Even feeds (application/rss+xml, application/atom+xml) may be recognized. And many, many more … Continue reading
When testing software that requires a database for persisting data there are different ways to do this. One way is to use a real database engine instance for testing purpose only. Setting up a full scale database server is totally oversized for testing purpose. So using a dedicated simply to use database is a good way. Furthermore the data may not persisted as after the test the data is not necessary anymore. For performance reasons a non-persistent database engine would be great. There are many solutions for in-memory database testing. One of them is H2. Let’s have a look how H2 can be configured for this purpose. Continue reading
When working with Java and XML there is a number of frameworks that support working with that technology. Furthermore when working with an already working api there must be code in order be able to convert Java objects into XML and vice versa. Using xjc is an easy way to generate Java classes in order to “talk” XML. Continue reading
When developing with maven by default there is no way to debug maven – or a self written maven plugin. This is really nasty when trying to write a plugin and then test the plugin. But there is a simple solution/workaround to do this. Continue reading