Shards Of Development

After upgrading to Ubuntu 13.04, I was a bit annoyed by a short-cut change: I have always used a lot BackSpace in Nautilus to go up one folder. Now, in Nautilus 3.6 this has been changed to ALT-UP.Luckily enough, even if there is no GUI for this, you can change... [Read More]

This rather long post analyses four solutions to the problem of using data sources, and more in general JNDI in Virgo, the 4th being the one I recommend and decided to use, which consists in leveraging Tomcat's built-in JNDI provider in Eclipse Virgo Server for Apache Tomcat.If you are not... [Read More]

Last week I pushed to github an Eclipse plug-in released under the EPL license that allows using PDE plug-in projects with Virgo Tools. Source code, binaries and documentation are available here:   http://github.com/giamma/pde2virgo  The plug-in is pretty simple: it contributes a new builder to a PDE plug-in project and the... [Read More]

[Originally shared on G+ the 14th of August 2012] If you are interested in EclipseLink support for extensible entities, besides the official documentation you may want to have a look at this forum thread:http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/357791/880331/#msg_880331The last post is under my name but credits go to my colleague Paolo Di Patria for... [Read More]

[Originally shared on G+ the 7th of August 2012] For those working with Eclipse on Ubuntu, if you don't like the fact that the Eclipse menu does not blend into Unity's global menubar, you may want to try this hack https://bugs.launchpad.net/eclipse/+bug/618587/comments/46You may experience some refresh glitches from time to time,... [Read More]