For some time now content assist and the command panel have been broken in Eclipse and Ubiquity running under Ubuntu; they wouldn't trigger the pop-up menues when pressing CRTL+Space. The reason is ibus intercepting that key combination and it's just as easily solved [1]: Open gconf-editor. Choose desktop -> ibus -> general -> hotkey. Open … Continue reading CRTL+Space not working in Ubuntu applications
Tag: Troubleshooting
JEE6, EJB and Glassfish diaries
Some notes while trying to get up on speed with Glassfish and JEE6, mainly about what can go wrong... and there is plenty of it. The most time-consuming activity is researching generic stack traces which hardly ever point to the real cause. NullPointerException when deploying Been there, done that: A beans.xml in META-INF might cause … Continue reading JEE6, EJB and Glassfish diaries
CRTL + Left click on java methods/members/classes slow in Eclipse
In a certain, corporate installation of Eclipse on a quite fast computer CRTL+Left click on java classes, members and methods in the java editor incurred always several seconds of a locked up eclipse which coincided with moderate network traffic. When disconnecting the network the delay would magically vanish. Pierre-Antoine Grégoire came up with the reason … Continue reading CRTL + Left click on java methods/members/classes slow in Eclipse
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
