Andrej Koelewijn

I just received an email from Brian Duff, as he couldn’t comment on my blog. I had turned commenting off during my vacation, as i was getting some serious comment spam. 3500 comments in 1 week. I get a notification for every comment in my mailbox, but the webmail i’m using is not usable when it contains 3500 mails. So thanks to all the weblog comment spam, i couldn’t use my email anymore.

What’s weird though, is that i still received some comment spam, eventhough i disabled commenting.

Anyway, i just re-enabled the commenting, let’s see how long i can stand the spam.

While going through the Preferences window i noticed that the preferences for Oracle’s version control system are gone. The two left are Clearcase and CVS. I have no problems with this, as i’m only using CVS at the moment, but i hope sometime in the future Oracle will add support for Subversion, as more and more opensource projects are starting to use that instead of CVS.

The preferences window now also contains a section called XDoclet Configuration, which allows you to, among others, enable and disable XDoclet support for EJBs, Hibernate, Spring and Web (Struts).

For hand coding java Eclipse used to be a lot more productive than Jdeveloper, thanks to it’s extensive support for refactoring and quick fixes. Jdeveloper now has better support for both. So if you start throwing exceptions which haven’t been declared in the method header, jdeveloper will offer to automatically add the exception to the method header, or it can automatically surround the throw statement with try and catch. Nice.

I just downloaded and installed the 10.1.3 preview. One of the problems i have with jdeveloper 9.0.5.2 is that the projects in the application navigator do not show the directory structure under the projects. Instead it categorizes all files and under the project category folders are displayed instead of directories. For example, all xml files are considered one category, and are usually displayed under one category, even if you put them in different directories. This is a pain if you have a lot of different xml files for different purposses in different directories, especially if some of these files have the same name.

Now, jdeveloper 10.1.3 doesn’t store a reference to every files in the project file. This makes it easier to put project files in cvs, you’ll have less conflicts. In the project properties you can specify which files need to be displayed as part of the project, you can filter on directories and on files. This is configured in so called working sets.

To test this I created a new workspace and a new project, and then i created one new file in this project: a file called config.cfg in a folder conf. The first thing i do in this new jdeveloper version, and immediately i seem to experience a bug or a misunderstanding on my part: the project doesn’t show config.cfg. I’ve edited the working set (which shows the conf directory), i added a *.cfg pattern to the working set. I’ve also added the extension .cfg under File Types in the preferences windows, but nothing helps. Config.cfg is not displayed as part of my project…

A couple of days ago i returned from an excellent holiday: 2 weeks of kitesurfing in Cumbuco, Brazil. While browsing through orablogs and otn i noticed i have a lot of catching up to do: a lot of interesting Oracle Open World presentations to read, a new Oc4j preview and a new Jdeveloper preview. The list of new features in jdeveloper is very impressive, it looks like a lot of problems have been fixed.