Java Tutorials
I've been working in Java of late. One of the problems with Java is that you end up working with a bunch of tools from a bunch of places and it can be a bit tricky to get up to speed.
In keeping with the theme of Take the First Step, I've started working on some tutorials on Java Development Tools (the process is also an effective way of imprinting the information in my brain).
| Ant | |
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| Writing an Ant Build File:
Hello World |
Ant tutorial on targets, target depends and the echo task. |
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Java Hello World |
Ant tutorial on the javac, jar and java tasks. |
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Using Properties |
Ant tutorial on the use of properties to specify work directories. |
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Using JUnit Part 1 |
Ant tutorial showing a trivial junit task example with an explicit java classpath. |
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Using JUnit Part 2 |
Ant tutorial showing control of JUnit exit status with multiple test cases. |
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Conditional Execution |
Ant tutorial showing the conditional execution of targets, includes the use of JUnit test status to optionally execute targets. |
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Setting Properties |
Ant tutorial on setting properties, introduces the available and condition tasks. |
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Java System Properties |
Demonstration of the sysproperty attribute of the Ant java task. |
| Writing an Ant Build File: Modifying Property Files |
Ant tutorial on modifying values in a property file with the propertyfile task. |
Hibernate |
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| So you want to learn Hibernate | A simple [and useless] console application using Hibernate. Presents a simple ant build file. |
| Controlling Hibernate output with Log4J | A still simple [and useless] console application using Hibernate and Log4J. A property is used to direct hibernate log output to either System.out or a log file. |
| A Persistent Collection with Hibernate | Simple application to create and retrieve a persistent collection. |
| Hibernate Prototyping with the BeanShell | Using the BeanShell to interact with Hibernate. |
| Adding a Hibern8IDE browser | The Hibern8 IDE is a quick'n'dirty Hibernate query tool and a pretty slick way to view your persistent data store. |
| Cascading actions from Parent to Child | A set of BeanShell sessions that demonstrate the behavior of a many-to-many relationship for different values of the cascade attribute. |
OpenEJB | |
| Getting Started with OpenEJB | The OpenEJB Hello World example is a good place to get started, but I kept looking for an ant build file. Here is my version of that build file. |
| A Simple Entity Bean with OpenEJB | A simple entity bean with ant build file. This example uses HSqlDB and provides a custom Home query method. |
Weblog Customization
- Textpattern and custom_url_func
- Using htaccess and custom_url_func to implement an alternate permlink mode that supplements the standard Textpattern permlink mode.
- Index Pages in Textpattern
- Using htaccess and a Textpattern section to provide "static" index pages with clean urls.
- Surrounding Articles Redux
- Generate a list of articles that were posted before and after the article being viewed. Handle a day request similarly in year-month-day-title permalink mode.
The following articles apply to an previous version of Textpattern and my attempts to add a default section to it.
- Adding a default section
- Add a default section that includes all articles
- Default Section Permalinks
- Generate default section aware permalinks
- Recent Articles
- Generate a default section aware list of recent articles
- Surrounding Articles
- Generate a default section aware list of articles that were posted before and after the article being viewed
- Entry Drafts in Radio Userland
- Create a draft category for work in progress
- Accessing weblogData.root
- Access your weblog data through weblogData.root
- The Current Post
- Find the date associated with the page being rendered and the oldest post on that page.
- Local Macros and Loops
- Use a local macro to retrieve post titles
- Categories and Post Links
- Handle categories and retrieve post permalinks
- The myRecentTitledPosts Macro
- A complete macro to display posts originally published around the date associated with a page.
- Styling myRecentTitledPosts with CSS
- Use CSS to control the presentation of the myRecentTitledPosts macro
- Working Copy of Your Radio Weblog
- Use Apache Virtual Hosts to create a local working copy of your Radio Weblog
Content Management Systems
What is a Content Management System? A Content Management System manages the process by which content is created, stored, retrieved, and prepared for distribution. Typical reasons for deploying a CMS include: to streamline or automate an existing process, to promote the reuse and repurposing of content, and to control the distribution of content.
Why is CMS so Confusing? The concept of a Content Management System may seem simple, but understanding the CMS market can be hard. The underlying problem is that both the range of problems that can be addressed by a CMS and the range of content that can be managed by a CMS are quite large. Consequently, there is often disagreement whether an product is a CMS and there is often disagreement about what content is.
What's the Deal with XML for Content Management? It seems that XML is in the process of taking over the technology world and content management is no different. While most everyone else is interested in the exchange of data via XML, CM is focused on the separation of content from presentation and access to content structure.
What's the Relationship between a Portal and a CMS? A portal aggregates information from multiple sources. It is meant to alleviate information overload by providing a common interface to interact with those sources. A content management system (CMS) is simply a potential information source. The two are often confused because most portal software includes some CMS capability and most CMS software includes some portal capability.