The easy way to test Android applications
I’m going to guess that most of you know what instrumentation is. In the event that you don't, instrumentation is a feature in which specific monitoring of the interactions between…
One artifact with multiple configurations in Maven
Problem When working on www.beertoplist.com I ran into a Maven problem, that is fairly common: Having a project that should be configured differently for different environments. That is for instance…
Classloader Deep-Cloning without Serialization
Background In PowerMock we're using a custom classloader to byte-code manipulate classes that are normally not mockable to make them mockable. But when running a test case there may be…
PowerMock + TestNG = True
After having it on our todo list for at least a year we've finally managed to integrate PowerMock with TestNG 5.11 as of PowerMock version 1.3.5. This is a big…
Referential Integrity using Spring LDAP
The directory servers of today are packed with a lot of nice features, one of them being Referential Integrity which performs integrity updates on attributes like member, uniqueMember, owner etc.…
Getting Android SDK working on Ubuntu 64
Today I was trying to setup the Android SDK (version 1.6_r1) on the 64 bit version of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope). After having installed the ADT Eclipse plugin and pointed…
Pimp-my-Pumpkin!
As Halloween is approaching and the aftternoons grow rainy, it's time for some tinkering. So, why not try to get the pumpkins a bit more interesting than cut-out veggies? Getting…
Social Computing or Let the bots talk!
This is a long article to follow up my talk at SSWC, so I will start with a summary for the lazy reader :) Summary With connected devices, JavaScript enabled…
Mocking static methods in Java system classes
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…
Queued Background Tasks for Cocoa
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…
Blogging Among the Clouds
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,…
Regular Expressions and Cocoa
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…
PowerMock Part 2
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…
Adding Sorted Inserts to Cocoa Arrays
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,…
Executable .jar, with onejar-maven-plugin
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 yourpom.xml's <plugins> tag to make it work:[...]