Friday, March 7, 2003

Debugging JUnit tests in Eclipse - how?. Debugging JUnit tests in Eclipse - how?. Does anyone know how to run JUnit tests using Ant and debug them in Eclipse? I have the JUnit/Ant part figured out, it's the debugging I'm having issues with. I'm able to run debug (using breakpoints) in Eclipse while running Tomcat, but not while running a simple JUnit test from Ant. Man that would be cool. If I could run Ant (from w/in Eclipse or on the command line) and set breakpoints in Eclipse - I could sure speed up my development time. [Raible Designs :: We Build Web Apps] I have debugged the odd JUnit test in eclipse from time to time (though I find thats rare). Though I get Maven to auto-generate the project for me so that eclipse knows the source paths & jars required. Then just select the JUnit test you want to run/debug and click the Run menu then Debug -> As JUnit. Why do you need to run Ant, to run the JUnit test? 5:46:40 PM    comment []

mondrian rocks! Business people really love to see their buisiness data sliced & diced in lots of different ways. The more slicing and dicing the better. Whatever the figures are, sales fgures, marketing stuff, whatever, sliced by location, country, sales person, product group, day of the week, month, whatever. I've found a really groovy open source OLAP engine in Java called Mondrian that happily sites on any JDBC provider and provides a full OLAP slicing & dicing capabilities. There's a JSP front end, JPivot which provides a great web front end to drill down into your data cubes in any dimension you wish. It also aims to implement the Java OLAP API too. Cool beans! If you're building a Java web application for your company, go on, try add Mondrian support to your web app. You're users will love you for it. 3:11:23 PM    comment []

BEA: huge adoption curve climbing very fast for Linux BEA: huge adoption curve climbing very fast for Linux.. From Computer World's interview with BEA's CEO Alfred Chuang: What Linux trends are you seeing with BEA software? Huge adoption curve climbing very fast for BEA over the last six to nine months. A lot of focus in the financial services marketplace, where there's a lot of experimentation and initial deployment going on with Linux on Intel. And I think the motivation in that arena is simplification and cost reduction, so they are looking to buy significantly less expensive hardware. What's the breakdown of platforms on which BEA software is running? About 50% is on Sun, and about 23%, 24% is on Hewlett-Packard. Hewlett-Packard has both Intel and non-Intel platforms in there. And then it drops off pretty quick. IBM hardware, I think, is 5% or 7%. In some countries, we sell a lot of IBM's hardware. What about the Linux operating system? Linux is around the 15% to 20% range, which has climbed pretty quickly. [Blogging Roller] This certainly echos what I hear from our customers. It seems everyones going Linux on the server side these days and getting immediate cost reductions & usually performance increases. Especially with the cheap Lintel boxes around which just keep getting faster and faster. Java + Lintel boxes is a great combination (especially with IBM's JVM). I how long it'll be before the CIOs and accounts people of large corporations do the same kinds of calculations and realise how much they could save if they went Linux on the client side too :) 2:53:28 PM    comment []