Posts tagged: Java

Using Code-Swarms as a developer KPI

If You are developer in a company that doesn’t involve software development as its main product or line of business: Then you must be suffering from time to time about reporting your work and communicating the efforts you make as KPIs.

Everyone has to provide monthly ,dull and boring charts and tables KPIs showing the amount of work they did, begging for attention about their work.

Somehow developers lack the artistic and eye-catching way to present their work.

Well I propose to use “Code Swarms” to show your development effort in the projects you work on.

gourcing git project

gourcing git project

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Java and Oracle : JDBC Layers and Connection types

I know no body does that, but I did it anyway :

I read through the JDBC connection types “http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/jdbc/getstart/intro.html#1019423” and thought I summarize the deferences between JDBC drivr types in this diagram:

JDBC Layers and types from Oracle drivers

Diagram Showing Layers of JDBC and Types with Oracle drivers

In short, there are 4 types of JDBC Connection, but only two are important from my experience:

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Java Troubleshooting: Application running inside Glassfish, unable to call a webservice

Flash Forward:  3 days already trying to troubleshooting the java code for “PrivilegedActionException” Exception , it turns out it is one parameter in Glassfish that needs to be properly adjusted.

Lets go back from the beginning: 3 days ago I was writing a JEE enterprise applciation , simply  a webpage that retrieves data from a DB2 database and then based on a user’s choice it call a webservice for some of the records in the result-set.

I followed GlassFish-Developer’s-guide to call an WS-RPC webservice. the server providing this WS-RPC is somewhere located inside our enterprise network.

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