Eclipse on Micha Kops' Tech Notes

Downloading Maven Artifacts from a POM file programmatically with Eclipse Aether

Fri, 08 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0200

Sometimes I need to resolve Maven dependencies programmatically. Eclipse Aether is a library for working with artifact repositories and I’ll be using it in the following example to read dependency trees from a given POM descriptor file and download each dependency from a remote Maven repository to a local directory.

Figure 1. Using Eclipse Aether.

Dependencies

We’re adding a bunch of dependencies to our project’s pom.xml:

<properties>
    <aetherVersion>1.1.0</aetherVersion>
    <mavenVersion>3.2.1</mavenVersion>
</properties>

Playing around with MQTT and Java with Moquette and Eclipse Paho

Wed, 01 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0200

The MQ Telemetry Transport Protocol (MQTT) is a lightweight publish/subscribe messaging protocol developed in 1999 that experiences a growing popularity due to trends like the Internet-of-Things and the need to exchange information between low powered devices with aspects as CPU and bandwidth usage in mind.

In the following tutorial I’d like to demonstrate how to set-up a broker for this protocol with the help of the Moquette library and how to create a client and publish messages for a specific topic using this broker and Eclipse Paho as client library.

Finding Memory Leaks using Eclipse and the MemoryAnalyzer Plugin

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0100

The MemoryAnalyzer Plugin for Eclipse allows us to quickly analyze heap dumps from a virtual machine and search for memory leaks. In the following tutorial we’re going to create and run a small application that is going to cause an OutOfMemoryException during its runtime.

In addition, we’re forcing the virtual machine to save a heap dump and finally analyzing this data using Eclipse and the MemoryAnalyzer plugin.

Prerequisites

Contract-First Web-Services using JAX-WS, JAX-B, Maven and Eclipse

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0200

Using the contract-first approach to define a web service offers some advantages in contrast to the code-first approach.

In the following tutorial we’re going to take a look at some details of this approach and we’re going to implement a real SOAP service using JAX-WS, Maven and the Eclipse IDE.

Finally we’re going to run our service implementation on an embedded Jetty instance and we’re going to take a look at soapUI and how to test our service using this neat tool.

Creating a LDAP server for your development environment in 5 minutes

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0200

I am currently working on a plugin that needs to receive some information from an LDAP/Active Directory using JNDI. That’s why I needed to set up a directory server in a short time and I didn’t want to waste much effort for here. Luckily for me the Apache Directory Studio saved my day and allowed me to set up everything I needed in a few minutes.

Short and sweet: In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to configure everything you need in your Eclipse IDE and finally how to query the created LDAP server with a tiny java client using JNDI.

Java Server Faces/JSF 2 Tutorial – Step 1: Project setup, Maven and the first Facelet

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0200

In this short tutorial we are going to build a Java Server Faces Web-Application using JSF2.0, Facelets, Maven and Hibernate as ORM Mapper.

The goals for this first step are: Setting up the project structure using Maven, defining a frame template/decorator and a registration facelet, creating a managed bean and mapping it’s values to the facelet, adding some basic validation, displaying validation errors and finally adding a navigation structure.

In step2 of this tutorial we are going to add persistence using Hibernate, add some security, create a custom UI component and add some AJAX.

How to integrate Android Development Tools and Maven

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0200

With the Maven Android Plugin it is possible to build and deploy/undeploy your android app and start/stop the emulator – if you’re used to maven you won’t be going without it ;)

If you’re interested in signing your apk using maven – take a look at this article

Project Setup

Create an android project using the android tool

We need some dependencies – so create a pom.xml in the project’s root directory – I took this from the plugin samples and modified it:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
 Copyright (C) 2009 Jayway AB

 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 You may obtain a copy of the License at

 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 limitations under the License.
-->
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <groupId>com.hascode.android.app</groupId>
     <artifactId>demo</artifactId>
     <packaging>apk</packaging>
     <name>hasCode.com - Sample Android App using the Maven Android Plugin</name>
     <version>0.1</version>
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>android</groupId>
             <artifactId>android</artifactId>
             <version>2.1</version>
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>

         <dependency>
             <groupId>junit</groupId>
             <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
             <version>4.8.1</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>

     <build>
         <!--<finalName>${artifactId}</finalName>-->
         <plugins>
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>com.jayway.maven.plugins.android.generation2</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-android-plugin</artifactId>
                 <configuration>
                     <sdk>
                         <path>${env.ANDROID_HOME}</path>
                         <platform>3</platform>
                     </sdk>
                     <deleteConflictingFiles>true</deleteConflictingFiles>
                 </configuration>
                 <extensions>true</extensions>
             </plugin>

             <plugin>
                 <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                 <configuration>
                 <source>1.5</source>
                 <target>1.5</target>
                 </configuration>
             </plugin>

         </plugins>
     </build>

</project>

Eclipse Snippets

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Favorites

Spare my time when using static imports ..

Window > Preferences > Java > Editor > Content Assist > Favorites:

com.google.common.collect.Lists
com.jayway.restassured.matcher.RestAssuredMatchers
com.jayway.restassured.RestAssured
io.restassured.matcher.RestAssuredMatchers
io.restassured.RestAssured
org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert
org.hamcrest.Matchers
org.mockito.Mockito
javaslang.API
javaslang.Predicates

Template to insert a static logger instance

Go Windows > Preferences > Java > Editor > Templates > New …

Enter logger as name and as template:

${:import(org.slf4j.Logger,org.slf4j.LoggerFactory)}
private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(${enclosing_type}.class);

Afterwards you’re able to type logger in your code and ctrl+space gives the option to insert the logger

Java Snippets

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Remote Debug a Pod’s Java Process

Simple steps for remote debugging a Java process running on a k8 pod:

Edit deployment and add the following parameters to the Java start line: -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=127.0.0.1:5005

Also add the following port mapping at the section container → ports in the deployment:
```
- containerPort: 5005
  protocol: TCP
```
Safe, wait for the new pods and then add a port forward for port 5005 for this pod:
```
kubectl port-forward podname 5005
```

Scala Snippets

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

SBT – Eclipse Plugin

Add to your ~/.sbt/plugins/plugins.sbt

addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbteclipse" % "sbteclipse-plugin" % "2.1.1")