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OSX Lion JAVA_HOME

Apple’s OS Lion has a pretty neat trick for handling the JAVA_HOME variable Chill:bin rus$ /usr/libexec/java_home /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home which is super awesome as you can simply do Chill:bin rus$ export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home) Chill:bin rus$ echo $JAVA_HOME /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home to make sure you have the correct $JAVA_HOME set up, every time! I’ve added this commend to my ~/.profile file […]

google-apis-mavenized does not compile

by rus

I need to write some backup software for our hosted Google Apps, so as we’re a Java shop I’m going to be using the Java API. Also we’re heavy users of Hudson and Maven so want to get the checked out source building with that. There is a Google Code project called google-apis-mavenized which looks […]

Tomcat HelloWorld Servlet with Eclipse

by rus

I’m really trying to get in to this whole Java web development frame of mind, as it’s a bit of fun, a bit of a giggle, and it’s massive in this area of the world! So obviously my first port of call was dusting off Eclipse and kicking out a HelloWorld style Java servlet! I […]

Nexus on Tomcat 5.5 on Ubuntu Hardy

by rus

I’m trying out this Continuous Integration fun at the moment. My end game is to get Hudson, Maven and Nexus working together to continuously build and run unit tests against code, which then gets turned in to Deb packages. A new Xen VM will then be created and configured using Puppet which the new Deb […]

Apache2 with SSL and Tomcat5.5 on Ubuntu

by rus

One of the newer features to our site is an access control mechanism to force specific paths to only be delivered over SSL when our customers have particularly sensitive data. We already use Apache2 with mod_jk to talk to the Tomcat5.5 instance running our app so the only part left is to enable SSL! First […]

PHP Java Bridge in Ubuntu Gutsy with Lucene

by rus

The php/java bridge it a pretty awesome little protocol that basically lets us use java classes inside our own PHP applications! This lets you harness the awesome power of all the Java libraries that exist, including the popular Lucene search engine library. I referenced two excellent blog entries here and here whilst implementing Lucene search […]

Configuring Tomcat 5.5 and Apache 2 with mod_jk

by rus

mod_jk is a conduit between a web server and Tomcat, it supports a variety of web servers including IIS. Using mod_jk to put Apache in front of Tomcat lets you use all the power of Apache (caching, gzip, mod_rewrite, etc) whilst at the same time serving content from Tomcat, also with Ubuntu it’s really easy […]