Tag Archives: automation

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

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Richard Nichols

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

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Richard Nichols

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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Automatic Javascript and CSS Compression For Java Webapps

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Richard Nichols

One of the “no brainer” ways to make your web sites / web apps load faster for users is to utilise Javascript and CSS compression. This means at least, stripping out all the white-space, comments and other non-essential character data … Continue reading →

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