Connecting with Eclipse to a remote SVN repository via SSH on non-standard ports

Having been bitten by this for the n-th time (with n being subjectively a large integer), I'm noting this down for the following generations to benefit; and hopefully to save myself some fiddling next time it happens. Without further ado: How to connect with SVN to a remote repository that is running on a non-standard … Continue reading Connecting with Eclipse to a remote SVN repository via SSH on non-standard ports →

ORA-12519 connection errors and JUnit tests

In my current project we are running hundreds of JUnit tests which load a Spring application context, a Hibernate session factory and a c3p0 pool. The entire suite runs fine everywhere except a single machine where some tests will occasionally fail with a "ORA-12519, TNS:no appropriate service handler found" on an Oracle XE. The cause[1,2] … Continue reading ORA-12519 connection errors and JUnit tests →

Liferay diaries: Help! My validation errors are not showing!

While still battling form submissions in my Liferay/Spring MVC Form controller/Multi-portlet beast, I noticed that the Spring form tags would not display errors. As this post [1] explains, the reason is that the form backing object must be named exactly as the class consituting the backing object, but with the first letter in lowercase. Thus … Continue reading Liferay diaries: Help! My validation errors are not showing! →

Liferay diaries: Help! My form post parameters are empty!

While hacking a Spring & Liferay prototype, I'm suddenly wondering about why during a form submission there are no parameters (not even empty or null) submitted by the form. Turns out that I got bitten once more by the two phases of the portlet lifecycle [1] and naivly were handling form submission in the handleRenderRequest … Continue reading Liferay diaries: Help! My form post parameters are empty! →

Adding foreign language dictionaries to Eclipse text editors and mylyn

This article [1] says it all, but here again for greek and linux: sudo apt-get install aspell aspell-el gawk aspell dump master el | awk -F/ '{print $1}' > dictionary_el.txt And then in Eclipse : Window -> Preferences -> General -> Editors -> Text Editors ->Spelling Add dictionary_el.txt as a User Defined Dictionary Update 28.12.2011 … Continue reading Adding foreign language dictionaries to Eclipse text editors and mylyn →