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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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,…
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.
pom.xml's <plugins> tag to make it work:[...]