Friday, October 21, 2011

Increase the memory for MyEclipse Blue IDE

1. Open this file:
C:\Program Files\Genuitec\MyEclipse Blue Edition 8.0 GA\myeclipse-blue.ini

2. Edit lines so it looks like this at the bottom:

-Xms1024m
-Xmx1024m

This will give you 1GB ram for MyEclipse Blue.

My complete ini file looks like this:

-install
C:/Program Files/Genuitec/MyEclipse Blue Edition 8.0 GA
-vm
C:/Program Files/Genuitec/Common/binary/com.sun.java.jdk.win32.x86_1.6.0.013/jre/bin/client/jvm.dll
-startup
../Common/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.201.R35x_v20090715.jar
--launcher.library
../Common/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_1.0.200.v20090519
-vmargs
-Xms1024m
-Xmx1024m
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=64m

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Adding a datasource to the maven jetty plugin

In your pom.xml
           <plugin>
<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
<version>6.1.21</version>
<configuration>
<!-- <jettyConfig>src/main/resources/devJetty.xml</jettyConfig> -->
<webXml>${basedir}/src/main/resources/jetty-web.xml</webXml>
<jettyEnvXml>${basedir}/src/main/resources/jetty-env.xml</jettyEnvXml>
<contextPath>/OCM</contextPath>
<scanIntervalSeconds>3</scanIntervalSeconds>
<scanTargetPatterns>
<scanTargetPattern>
<directory>src/main/webapp/WEB-INF</directory>
<excludes>
<exclude>**/*.jsp</exclude>
</excludes>
<includes>
<include>**/*.properties</include>
<include>**/*.xml</include>
</includes>
</scanTargetPattern>
</scanTargetPatterns>
<stopKey>foo</stopKey>
<stopPort>9966</stopPort>
</configuration>
</plugin>
Key lines are
<webXml>${basedir}/src/main/resources/jetty-web.xml</webXml>
<jettyEnvXml>${basedir}/src/main/resources/jetty-env.xml</jettyEnvXml>

Define your jetty-env.xml like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC -//Mort Bay Consulting//DTD Configure//EN http://jetty.mortbay.org/configure.dtd>

<Configure class="org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">

<!-- an XADataSource -->
<New id="MAVENJETTYDS" class="org.mortbay.jetty.plus.naming.Resource">
<Arg></Arg>
<Arg>jdbc/datasource</Arg>
<Arg>
<New class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource">
<Set name="driverClassName">[[jdbc driver class]]</Set> <!-- for example, com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2Driver -->
<Set name="url">[[jdbc url]]</Set> <!-- for example, jdbc:db2://yourdbhostnameorip:[port]/yourdb -->
<Set name="username">[[username]]</Set><!-- for example, yourmom -->
<Set name="password">[[password]]</Set><!-- for example, correcthorsebatterystaple -->
<Set name="defaultCatalog">[[schema, if needed]]</Set>
</New>
</Arg>
</New>
</Configure>

Then add the ref to your web.xml
<web-app version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd" id="WebApp_1270163143862">
<pre>
<!-- SNIP -->

<!-- Bug fix for editing locked CSS and JS running in Jetty -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.DefaultServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>useFileMappedBuffer</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>0</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

<resource-ref>
<res-ref-name>jdbc/datasource</res-ref-name>
<res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
<res-auth>Container</res-auth>
</resource-ref>

</web-app>

Friday, October 7, 2011

Understanding Maven dependency scope

You can specify the scope for a dependency in the maven pom file, here are the scope values you can choose and what effect they have:

  • compile: This dependency is needed for compilation of the main source
  • test: This dependency is needed for compiling and running tests. It is not needed for compiling the main source or running the final artifact.
  • runtime: This dependency is needed for running the final artifact. It is not needed for compiling the main source or compiling or running the tests.
  • provided: This dependency is needed for compiling and/or running the artifact but is not necessary to include in the package, because it is provided by the runtime environment - for example, jsp-api.jar is provided by your web application container, so you don't include it in your WEB-INF/lib (for the example of a webapp); or a plugin or optional package that is a prerequisite for your application, but is not bundled with your application.
  • system: don't use this one

source: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/Dependency+Scopes

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

JSP debug code

The following can be pasted into a JSP and then used to display (either in HTML source or in the browser window), the JSP Request, Session, Page, and Application settings for the environment and container the JSP is running within.

I have found this to be a quick useful way to get the lay of the land, when joining a project already in development.




<!--
<%@ page import="java.util.*"%>
<%
Object eobj = request.getParameter("error");
if (eobj != null) {
Exception exception = null;
Object obj = request.getAttribute("exception");
if (obj != null && obj instanceof Exception) {
exception = (Exception) obj;
}
if (exception == null) {
obj = request.getAttribute("javax.servlet.error.exception");
if (obj != null && obj instanceof Exception) {
exception = (Exception) obj;
}
}
if (exception != null) {
%><pre>
<%
exception.printStackTrace(new java.io.PrintWriter(out));
%>
</pre>
<%
}
}
out.println("<h3>Request:</h3><ul>");
Enumeration names = request.getHeaderNames();
while (names.hasMoreElements()) {
String name = (String) names.nextElement();
out.println("<li>HEADER " + name + ": "
+ request.getHeader(name));
}

for (Enumeration e = request.getParameterNames(); e
.hasMoreElements();) {
String name = (String) e.nextElement();
out.println("<li>PARAM " + name + "="
+ request.getParameter(name) + "</li>");
}

for (Enumeration e = request.getAttributeNames(); e
.hasMoreElements();) {
String name = (String) e.nextElement();
out.println("<li>ATTRIB " + name + "="
+ request.getAttribute(name) + "</li>");
}
out.println("</ul><h3>Session:</h3><ul>");
for (Enumeration e = session.getAttributeNames(); e
.hasMoreElements();) {
String name = (String) e.nextElement();
out.println("<li>ATTRIB " + name + "="
+ session.getAttribute(name) + "</li>");
}
out.println("</ul><h3>Page Scope Attributes:</h3><ul>");
for (Enumeration e = pageContext
.getAttributeNamesInScope(pageContext.PAGE_SCOPE); e
.hasMoreElements();) {
String name = (String) e.nextElement();
out.println("<li>ATTRIB "
+ name
+ "="
+ pageContext
.getAttribute(name, pageContext.PAGE_SCOPE)
+ "</li>");
}
out.println("</ul><h3>Application Scope Attributes:</h3><ul>");
for (Enumeration e = pageContext
.getAttributeNamesInScope(pageContext.APPLICATION_SCOPE); e
.hasMoreElements();) {
String name = (String) e.nextElement();
if (name.equals("com.sun.jsp.taglibraryCache")) {
out.print("<li>ATTRIB " + name
+ "= <b>NULL POINTER!</b></li>");
continue;
}
out.print("<li>ATTRIB " + name + "=");
out.println(pageContext.getAttribute(name,
pageContext.APPLICATION_SCOPE)
+ "</li>");
}
out.println("</ul>");
%>
-->

Monday, October 3, 2011

JSP for DataSource Connection Pool testing

If you need to test a datasource here is a JSP that will help you do it.
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@ page import="java.sql.*,javax.naming.*,javax.sql.*" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Test Data Source</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Test Data Source</h1>
<p>Hello</p>
<%
DataSource ds = null;
Connection con = null;
Statement stmnt = null;
ResultSet resultSet = null;
try {
InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();
ds = (DataSource)ctx.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/DataSource");
con = ds.getConnection();
stmnt = con.createStatement();
resultSet = stmnt.executeQuery("select * from PERSON");
if (resultSet != null) {
%><table><tr><%
ResultSetMetaData resultSetMetaData = resultSet.getMetaData();
int nOfColumns = resultSetMetaData.getColumnCount();
for(int j = 0; j<nOfColumns; j++) {
String columnLabel = resultSetMetaData.getColumnLabel(j+1);
%><th><%=columnLabel %></th><%
}
%></tr><%
if (resultSet.getType() != ResultSet.TYPE_FORWARD_ONLY) {
resultSet.beforeFirst();
}
while (resultSet.next()) {
%><tr><%
for (int i = 1; i <= nOfColumns; ++i) {
%><td><%
Object value = resultSet.getObject(i);
if (resultSet.wasNull()) {
%><b>null</b><%
} else {
%><%=value.toString() %><%
}
%></td><%
}
%></tr><%
}
%></table><%
}
} catch(NamingException e) {
throw e;
} catch(SQLException e) {
throw e;
} finally {
try {
if (resultSet != null) {
resultSet.close();
}
} catch (SQLException e) {
}
resultSet = null;
try {
if (stmnt != null) {
stmnt.close();
}
} catch (SQLException e) {
}
stmnt = null;
try {
if (con != null) {
con.close();
}
} catch (SQLException e) {
}
con = null;
ds = null;
}
%>
</body>
</html>

Just change
java:comp/env/jdbc/DataSource

To what the name of your DataSource connection pool is.
Then change
select * from PERSON

To a test query from this table:


Cloudscape

#SQL SELECT 1

#DB2

#SQL SELECT COUNT(*) FROM SYSIBM.SYSTABLES

#Informix

#SQL SELECT COUNT(*) FROM SYSTABLES

#Microsoft SQL Server

#SQL SELECT COUNT(*) FROM SYSOBJECTS

#MySQL

#SQL SELECT 1

#Oracle

#SQL SELECT 1 FROM DUAL

#PointBase

#SQL SELECT COUNT(*) FROM SYSTABLES

#PostgreSQL

#SQL SELECT 1

#Progress

#SQL SELECT COUNT(*) FROM SYSTABLES

#Sybase

#SQL SELECT COUNT(*) FROM SYSOBJECTS



Do not use this code to interact with a datasource, this should only be used for figuring out what the name of a datasource you created in the J2ee container is and that it is working.

Monday, September 26, 2011

Database test SQL for each vendor

When I setup a connection pool or database tool with a new database profile I like to test that it works, here are some vendor specific SQL you can use to test your db connection.

Cloudscape

#SQL SELECT 1

#DB2

#SQL SELECT COUNT(*) FROM SYSIBM.SYSTABLES

#Informix

#SQL SELECT COUNT(*) FROM SYSTABLES

#Microsoft SQL Server

#SQL SELECT COUNT(*) FROM SYSOBJECTS

#MySQL

#SQL SELECT 1

#Oracle

#SQL SELECT 1 FROM DUAL

#PointBase

#SQL SELECT COUNT(*) FROM SYSTABLES

#PostgreSQL

#SQL SELECT 1

#Progress

#SQL SELECT COUNT(*) FROM SYSTABLES

#Sybase

#SQL SELECT COUNT(*) FROM SYSOBJECTS

This is useful because you don't often know what tables exist in a database to test a query with, you can't assume select * from person would work if no person table was created. These queries are for the builtin system database resource in the specific vendor database types, they should exist even on a freshly installed or blank database server.

Monday, September 19, 2011

How do I insert CR LF in string column of a DB2 insert statement?

The insert syntax for adding new lines or line terminators in varchar columns in DB2 is not straightforward:

INSERT INTO EXAMPLE_TABLE ("ID","LEVEL_ID","VERSION","CONTENT","TYPE","FRAGMENT_ID") VALUES (158781,317339,20110701, 'your line of text' || x'0D' || x'0A' || 'your next line of text','HTML',0); 

The key to the query is to use || operator to concatenate the strings for the content column. The syntax for adding CR LF is :

'your line of text' || x'0D' || x'0A' 'your next line of text' 

DB2 will take the above and combine the strings into a single value for the database. The x'0D' x'0A' is to say hex value OD (carriage return) and hex value 0A (line feed). Windows expects both, for Linux/Unix OS only the 0A character is expected. For some versions of Mac OS you use only 0D, the newest ones use only 0A to end a line. For browsers, 0A is also the only needed character which is often ignored unless surrounded by pre or code tags however having both 0D and 0A will not cause display issues. The newest Windows OS may have support for just 0A as well in some cases.




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