Virtage Devblog

About a three years ago I stumbled upon phenomenon Eclipse and it was love at first sight. However it’s not quite long ago and maybe not long enough to believe it’s serious. About a year ago I started to think how many Eclipse zealots is in Czech Republic. About a month ago I started Eclipse [...]

Using Eclipse with full user experience with newest Ubuntu 13.04 is tricky. Trickier then in previous Ubuntu releases as Ubuntu changes with every further release. The following tips also apply to any Eclipse-based apps like Aptana or Plexflow.

It’s common request to allow daemons like cron or applications to send outgoing email to server’s administrator. Instead of configuring full-blown email server like Postfix you can install lightweight forwarder to real external SMTP server, while keeping binary compatibility with traditional Unix sendmail MTA.

There are still a lot of JARs that yet doesn’t support Maven or will never do (closed source, legacy libraries, …). Or for your own “home-made” JARs produced by Ant (optionally Ant launched from Maven project). In such challenging case you have number of approaches that I will try to cover and compare in the [...]

Have you ever need to quickly create multiple folder hierarchy at once? E.g. /src/main/java/com/virtage/devblog/foobar/ folder path? Ugh. Linux/MacOS may be aware of mkdir -p but is available in pure Eclipse too.

Migrating from Ant-driven build to Maven is pretty challenging. Sometimes is easier to just launch Ant tasks or whole script as is during Maven lifecycle phase. Let’s call it embedding Ant into Maven. I will cover this use case with help of AntRun Maven plugin and Eclipse.

Print and scan with Canon iSensys MF410 series multifunctional on Ubuntu 12.04+ in 10 easy steps.

Missing Java Notes API Javadoc is very annoying aspect of Lotus Domino Designer. I don’t understand why IBM don’t ship it. Though there is some documentation it is far from being what Java developer expect. Moreover this documentation is not easily available to help from Lotus Domino Designer Java editor. Let’s see how to add [...]

Eclipse Web Tools Project (WTP) is tooling to ease development Java EE and web applications. It provides out-of-the-box support for Tomcat servlet container. For unknown reason it misses popular Jetty container despite Eclipse Foundation project too. In this tutorial I present how to create Maven based web project in Eclipse WTP which runs on Jetty. [...]

From time to time you may experience Eclipse IDE error “Java compiler level does not match the version of the installed Java project facet”. Let’s look what does it mean and how to fix it.