Properties in Oddjob
Two cool things have happened to properties in Oddjob 1.2. First is that nested property expansion is now supported. This allows us to resolve expressions like
${somesys.${our.profile}.host}
Oddjob 1.2 New Features – Part 2
Two Buttons
One new features in Oddjob 1.2, took me ages – and it’s just two little buttons!
Here they are:
All they do is move a row up or down. Here we need to move our row up, so that favourite.fruit is defined before it is needed to define favourite.snack.
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Oddjob 1.2 New Features – Part 1
It’s coming to that time again. That time where I draw a line in the README file and call it a release. Being the only developer on a project that doesn’t have a large user base, a release is really just a state of mind. Like the flying ants that decide on mass to pour forth from their nests without the aid of any social media – it becomes time for a release.
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An Oddjob Property in Spring
Here’s my previous password passed to Spring example run from Oddjob:
Run as a GUI, Oddjob provides a simple form for entering properties including a password prompt.
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A Simpler Custom Property in Spring
I previously presented a CustomPropertyConfgurer that allows properties outside of Spring to be accessed from within Spring. The article was syndicated by DZone where a reader noted that in fact the Spring class PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer has a setProperties method, and so for my particular example, the CustomPropertyConfigurer was redundant.
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SQL Scripts With Green Ticks
Running SQL install scripts can be tedious. They get so far, and then fail. Finding out where they failed isn’t always easy and when the problem is fixed, there is a choice – drop the schema and re-run, or comment out what has been applied already, and re-run. I once spent an entire morning in this fix/re-run cycle for a particularly large and badly maintained script. It was very ungratifying work. What I need, I thought, are some friendly green ticks, some positive visual feedback to aid job satisfaction.
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A Custom Property in Spring
(Please note there as a postscript to this post: A Simpler Custom Property in Spring)
<context:property-placeholder> is a really easy way to provide property replacements in Spring configurations with values from a standard Java Properties file. But what if you don’t want a property hard coded into a file – a clear text password for instance? Spring provides all the bits and pieces to write your own property replacement. Let me introduce my CustomPropertyConfigurer.
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A Detour on the Road to Maven
I’ve been progressing quite nicely along my Road to Maven, that was until today when I tried to take a detour.
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Another Take on Java Scheduling
While many are looking forward to the holidays, those that must support batch based applications may not be so enthusiastic as they anticipate the numerous support calls for jobs that failed because they shouldn’t have run or for jobs that should have run but didn’t. It was after one such lost long weekend a decade ago that I decided to have a go at writing my own scheduling system.
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The Road To Maven
Maven is one of those projects I’ve looked at periodically over the years but I’ve never been persuaded by the payback of a learning curve that looks pretty steep from the bottom of a mound of XML. On my most recent day trip to Maven, however, I found a reason to stay.
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