Reactive programming for Java, revisited

Abstract Rewritten on 15 January 2015 In this post I'll talk about the problems callbacks introduce into the readability of asynchronous Java programs. I'll also discuss an implementation of method pointers for Java which aids the transformation of a callback-style program into a linear program flow, greatly increasing readability while still being a 100% asynchronous … Continue reading Reactive programming for Java, revisited

Programmatically selecting a tab with angularjs and bootstrapui

Let's say you want to programmatically select a tab with angularjs and bootstrap ui: [CODE MISSING] According to the documentation for 3.1.1 it should be enough to modify the model; here controller.tabUsers or controller.tabGroups. Only: it doesn't work. We'll never know why. The way out is simulating the click with jquery: $("#tab_users a").trigger("click");

LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean, Hibernate and superflous tables created in wrong database

TL;DR Hibernate's (3.2-3.4) JPA implementation will pick up hbm files on it's own when it should be looking only at persistence.xml, thus: - loading more entities that it should - loading the wrong entities - performing schema updates in the wrong database This one annoyed me plenty and took a great deal of debugging to … Continue reading LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean, Hibernate and superflous tables created in wrong database

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/openjpa/enhance/PersistenceCapable

My current project is using JPA, heavily. JPA is a spec/standard/interface and I'm using the Hibernate implementation for it, but I import the entities from a different maven module. The entities module has a dependency on JPA, but not on Hibernate. So when I run my unit tests, I suddenly get a: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/openjpa/enhance/PersistenceCapable Openjpa? … Continue reading java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/openjpa/enhance/PersistenceCapable