As you may already know PowerMock can be used to easily mock static methods which is normally not possible with standard mock frameworks such as EasyMock, JMock or Mockito. All you have to do is to use mockStatic in one of the PowerMock extension API’s as well as telling PowerMock to enable the class for [...]

The megahertz race is over, and instead we get more execution cores. This means that we as developers must make our applications parallel, in order to take advantage of the new performance. The easiest way to be parallel is to execute tasks in new threads, something that is useful also for lengthy but not resource [...]

Up until now this WordPress blog has been hosted by DreamHost, a company with a good reputation and a solid knowledge in hosting. Unfortunately, the server we’ve been located on, Trafficante, have lately had some problems with stability and performance and DreamHost have also had some MySQL stability issues. This, plus the fact that we’ve [...]

Regular expressions is a powerful tool for solving many problems related to text. It can be misused as any good tool, but there are moments when they are the best solution for a given problem. At those moments the lack of regular expressions for Cocoa on Mac OS X and Cocoa Touch on iPhone OS [...]

In JayView 17 we presented a short introduction to PowerMock, a framework that allows you to create automated tests for almost any code in isolation from its environment. In this article we’ll dig a bit deeper into PowerMock and explore the goals and more of its feature set. Background PowerMock is intended for developers who [...]

NSArray and NSMutableArray have methods for sorting arrays, NSArray returns new sorted arrays and NSMutableArray can be sorted in place. The sort methods comes in three flavours; using a function, using a selector, or using an array of NSSortDescriptor objects. NSArray admits to sorts being a slow operation, and adds a method pair for comultive [...]

Onejar-maven-plugin collects your application including dependencies, into one executable jar. It’s both easy and works well!

(UPDATED for version 1.3.0. See below.)

It lets all your dependency jars stay jars, and your code is in its own jar. All of those jars are put in a bigger jar, which is made executable.

Configuration

It may sound weird, but it’s quite elegant! Just put this in your pom.xml‘s <plugins> tag to make it work:[...]

The new release of iPhone OS 3.0 adds some nice API:s for managing a contextual toolbar. This is well needed as toolbars in the current iteration of iPhone OS is not only poorly documented, it is also quite hard to do right. So I will go over how to do toolbars the right way, for [...]

Liferay is the leading Open Source enterprise portal platform in the Java market. It’s certainly an impressive piece of software. I’ve been following it for some time now and the product is improving a great deal in many areas, perhaps most in end user usability. One area that, in my opinion, could still be improved [...]

I’ve spent quite some time getting my private Joomla! site to work the way I want with urls. A short good step-by-step has for me proven very hard to find. Several guides and post have been close, but still failed at the end for various reasons, so I’ll explain briefly what I wanted to achieve [...]

We’re proud to announce that PowerMock 1.1 was released a couple of days ago and it has many new interesting features. Framework independence First of all the internal structure of the project has undergone major changes. PowerMock core is no longer coupled to EasyMock which means that PowerMock can now be used as a foundation [...]

When developing SC68 Player for the iPhone I came upon a quite peculiar problem regarding the UIButton. First the preface I wanted to add a star button to the right side of each row, subclassing UIButton that can manage selected states, images and all I needed, and use it as the accessory view of the [...]

We have released 1.0 of PowerMock just in time for the Øredev conference! PowerMock is an open source mock framework based on EasyMock that allow you to mock static methods, private methods and even constructors. Our intent is mainly to allow unit testing of legacy code and people really seemed to appreciate this idea at the conference.

Hi there, Øredev was great success, especially all the people and the organization – a big Thank You to Michael and Emily for making this possible, you rock! Now, it was really awesome to exchange Android games with Mike Jennings fro the Android team, and get him excited over the recent Android port to the [...]

Previously a colleague of mine described an idea for mocking static methods. Earlier this year we started an open source project to implement these ideas in a very simple to use form. The idea is that it will just be a normal jar file that extends EasyMock and JUnit. Instead of using AspectJ we have [...]