Monday 18 August 2008

Ant: automated deployment to WebSphere Application Server

It can be useful to automate deployment of enterprise applications to servers during development, either to automatically set up test builds or perform build verification during the kitting process. WebSphere Application Server (WAS) comes with a number of Ant tasks that can be used for this.

Tuesday 5 August 2008

Java: int versus Integer

Changes in the Java language have made the differences between int and java.lang.Integer less obvious but every Java developer should understand them. Unless otherwise stated, Java 7 syntax and types are used.

Many of these issues apply to all the primitive types and their wrapper types.

This post has been rewritten in 2013. The original post was still generating comments (not the good kind) five years after it was written. This post is more detailed and provides better examples. Old comments have been deleted to avoid confusion - new criticism is welcome.

Friday 1 August 2008

Java: using XMLBeans to edit web.xml

XMLBeans is a Java API and set of utilities for working with XML. The code that follows demonstrates how to use it to manipulate a J2EE web.xml (version 2.5) document.