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Automatic release packaging w/ version numbers for Netbeans Java Projects…

I just did a nice little Netbeans build.xml hack for the visural-wicket project to add a build target which packages a release of the library for distribution (e.g. on Google Code). A version number is added to the project in … Continue reading

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Add Package (or Class) Filtering To Your Findbugs Ant Task

Following on from my last post about using hbm2java to generate a @Entity bean DAO layer for our application, Findbugs, the great automatic bug finding tool, will find a lot of issues with Hibernate’s auto-generated code (primarily around exposing internal … Continue reading

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Using Bottom-Up Iterative Object/Database Layer With hbm2java and warp-persist

This post sort of follows on from my last one – for the project I’m currently working on at work, we have a very large legacy database (1500+ tables) on top of which we are implementing a new business layer … Continue reading

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Automatically Updating Your Source File Headers With Ant’s ReplaceRegExp Task

A while ago I was looking for a way to automatically be able to update the standard “flowerbox text” at the start of all the source files in our projects. Generally this is the space where you would include information … Continue reading

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