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Category: Legacy

Exp not working in Oracle 11gR2

Starting from Oracle 11gR2, exp is deprecated and will exclude empty tables from the dump file (not even the table definition). The fact that exp is deprecated does not make it less than…

Better logging on ATG 2007.1 and JBoss

Here’s a way to have actual Nucleus component paths in log files with ATG 2007.1 and JBoss: create a localconfig/atg/dynamo/service/logging/ScreenLog.properties file with the following content useNucleusPathForClassName=true useFullPaths=true The result is: 15:52:15,650 INFO [/atg/registry/PipelineRegistry]…

The Usual Suspects

I decided to try some of the most known Java IDE on the market to see which one would work better for me: the idea was to install each IDE and work with…

Stop the pollution in WEB-INF/classes

Of the 12 or so Java libraries used in this site, 6 of them by default have their configuration files in the CLASSPATH: log4j (log4j.properties / log4j.xml) commons-logging (commons-logging.properties) XWork (xwork.xml) WebWork (webwork.properties,…

Never send email from a web page…

… synchronously. Recently I had to deal with nonsensical email bounces from a site I occasionally update, errors of the type: unrouteable mail domain "hotmail.com" Of course, domains such as hotmail.com, yahoo.com, etc….

On my bookshelf: Agile Project Management with Scrum

Agile Project Management with Scrum (Microsoft Professional) The book is interesting in the way it presents case studies of applying Scrum to software development projects in different kind of organizations, and in what…

Wiping out an ATG repository

Or, wiping out all the data in an ATG repository. Sometimes you have to do it, for example to reset some tables to start from scratch: ATG provides a documented operational tag remove-all-items…

Cannot find web application MyWebApp in web app registry WebApplicationRegistry

I’m sure it happened to most people, sooner or later. The problem: you’re trying to send an email from a scenario or from a workflow, and the action fails with the following message…

How to explain thread-safety in another language?

In between a site redesign, learning Python and being swamped with work, I have an issue: some of the people I’m working with configured a couple of instances of ItemLookupDroplet in request scope….

On my bookshelf: The Data Warehouse Toolkit

The Data Warehouse Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Building Dimensional Data Warehouses I wanted to read this book to get an overview about data warehousing, a subject I never really had the opportunity to…

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