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Apache tomcat easy deployment script

Muhammad Ali BuildTools, Java February 13, 2018

Following is the script that can be used to deploy application to Apache tomcat running on a Linux machine. Also this script can be called from a Jenkins to automate the deployment process. The script file can be downloaded from HotDeployScript #/bin/bash#/bin/bash # . ~/.profile export APP_ID=$1export URL1="http://localhost:8257/myWebApp/mvc/" export CHECK_URLS="$URL1" export CATALINA_HOME=/opt/myWebApp/tomcat7/ export CATALINA_BASE=$CATALINA_HOME echo CATALINA_HOME:
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TIBCO Java Event Source

Muhammad Ali Tibco January 15, 2018

TIBCO Java event source activity gives you the flexibility to write custom process starters. In following post we will create a simple project where we use the event source plugin. The java source code and the tibco project can be found here. Sample github project code Do a maven clean install on the java project
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Hotswap for Java using DCEVM+Hotswap Agent

Muhammad Ali Hacks, Java May 4, 2017

Here is an opensource setup that does the job as JRebel which offcourse is not free. Download HotswapAgent latest release from this url https://github.com/HotswapProjects/HotswapAgent/releases Download DCEVM jar from the following url https://github.com/dcevm/dcevm/releases Install DCEVM as an administrator java -jar DCEVM-light-8u112-installer.jar Create a new run configuration in intelliJ with following VM option -XXaltjvm=dcevm -javaagent:C:\Dev\sw\HotswapAgent-0.3\hotswap-agent.jar -Xms1G -Xmx5G
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TDD with java a good overview book

Muhammad Ali Java, Tibco December 7, 2016

Was contacted recently by PACKT publishing to act as technical reviewer for Test driven java development book by Viktor Farcic and Alex Garcia. I accepted the challenge and reviewed around 10 chapters. It a nice overview book which touch almost all the concerns in test driven application development without diving deep into details and you
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XML Schema generation from Java 8 code and Gradle integration

Muhammad Ali BuildTools, Java July 23, 2015

Using Java 8 and Gradle I had to generate XSD schema. Most of the Gradle plugins out there are not compatible with Java 8 yet. So I tweaked my way and following is how I did it. I had following model class supporting both JAXB and JSON. @XmlType(namespace = "http://com.invalid/1.0/request/schema") @XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD) @XmlRootElement(name = "Person") @JsonRootName(value
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Create maven archetype project

Muhammad Ali BuildTools, Java April 22, 2015

A simple maven archetypes with most common set of libraries, configured property files and some boiler plate code that you often copy past in every project can be of great help. I had similar requirements and here I am sharing my experience of creating a maven archetype project. The source code is available here Java-maven-archetype-github
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Dynamic SOAP web service endpoint address

Muhammad Ali Java, SOAP April 14, 2015

Every one prefers REST API’s now a days but hard luck lots of back end systems are SOAP XML based. There are some nice benefits e.g a contract (WSDL xsd) and of course web service client code generation that can easily be integrated into the client application. However you can have several environments continuous integration,
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