Software Trenches

Setting up Jetty in IDEA

Jetty is a lightweight embeddable Servlet/JSP container. I've configured it to run my test Tapestry application in IDEA and the server starts in about a second.

Here are the settings:

1. Main class: org.mortbay.jetty.Server
2. VM Parameters: -cp <include all jars from $JETTY_HOME/lib and $JETTY_HOME/ext>
3. Program parameters: YOUR-APP-CONFIG.xml
   

YOUR-APP-CONFIG.xml (Note: default + value of jetty.home will point to directory with your web.xml):

  ...
  <Call name="addWebApplication">
    <Arg>/your-app/*</Arg>
    <Arg><SystemProperty name="jetty.home" default=".."/>/war/web</Arg>
  </Call>
  ...

Disabling Tapestry Cache

-Dorg.apache.tapestry.disable-caching=true

Dan Creswell & JINI

• Dan Creswell's Weblog
  
  http://jroller.com/page/dancres
  
• JINI: Setting the Record Straight
  
  http://www.dancres.org/jini_setting_straight.html
  
• Getting started with Jini 2.0
  
  http://v2getsmart.jini.org/
  

ToStringPlugin for IDEA

http://www.intellij.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/ToStringPlugin

It is very useful. I've slightly changed the "Default StringBuffer" template -- it can be done from the IDE Settings|GenerateToString:

final StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();

sb

.append("$classname")

#set ($i = 0)

#foreach ($field in $fields)

#if (!$field.modifierStatic)

#if ($i == 0)

.append("{##

#else

.append(",##

#end

$field.name=")##

#if ($field.primitiveArray)

.append($field.name == null ? "null" : "")

for (int i = 0; $field.name != null && i < $field.name .length; ++i)

    .append(i == 0 ? "" : ", ").append($field.name[i])

#elseif ($field.objectArray)

.append($field.name == null ? "null" : Arrays.asList($field.name).toString())

#else

.append($field.name)

#end

#set ($i = $i + 1)

#end

#end

#if ($fields.size() == 0)

.append("{}");

#else

.append('}');

#end

return sb.toString();

How to use Ant 1.6.1 in IDEA

http://support.jetbrains.com/kb/entry.jspa?entryID=59&categoryID=27

wsadmin scripting

IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal Articles:

• Part 1: Overview of V5 Administration
• Part 2: Writing Your Own Administration Programs
• Part 3: Event Notifications
• Part 4: How to Extend the WebSphere Management System
• Part 5: Programmatic Configuration
• Part 6: Application Management

More:

• Sample Scripts in Jacl and Jython
• Firewall Port Assignments in WAS 5
• Jacl is a self-contained implementation of Tcl interpreter, written entirely in Java.