Category Archives: J2EE

Creating a Firefox Sidebar for Clearspace: Part II

Posted on December 1, 2007 by ajohnson

It looks like it was almost 2 months ago that I wrote a blog post about the Clearspace plugin for Firefox (called Clearfox), promising that I would follow up with the details on the JavaScript side of the project. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Clearspace, J2EE, JavaScript, Rich Internet Applications, Software Development, work | 1 Comment

Java ZipEntry bug on Windows

Posted on November 18, 2007 by ajohnson

I rolled out the Clearfox plugin on the Jive Software Community site a couple weeks ago and got some good feedback and some bad feedback. A number of people said they tried to install the Firefox part of the plugin, … Continue reading →

Posted in J2EE, Software Development, Systems Administration, work | 2 Comments

Java, Commons HTTP Client and HTTP proxies

Posted on November 14, 2007 by ajohnson

If you’re living at a giant corporation during the day and you want to browse the web you’re probably going through some sort of proxy to the outside world. Most of the time you don’t care, but if you’re writing … Continue reading →

Posted in J2EE, Syndication, Systems Administration | 4 Comments

Creating a Firefox Sidebar for Clearspace: Part I

Posted on October 2, 2007 by ajohnson

It’s been embarassingly quiet on this blog of late, I apologize for all the delicious links, although a case could be made that blogs were originally nothing more than sharing links so maybe I shouldn’t be apologizing, but that’s a … Continue reading →

Posted in Clearspace, J2EE, Open Source, Software Development, WebWork, work | 1 Comment

Using a custom socket factory with HttpClient

Posted on October 2, 2007 by ajohnson

The documentation on how to use a custom socket factory in HttpClient is actually pretty good, but there’s one thing they don’t make very clear. If you want to specify a per-host socket factory like this: Protocol p = new … Continue reading →

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Fun with Supporting Multiple Databases

Posted on September 24, 2007 by ajohnson

In my day job over at Jive Software I get to work on the crazy cool Clearspace product and unless you’ve been reading the system requirements lately, you probably didn’t notice that we support six different database platforms: MySQL, Oracle, … Continue reading →

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Debugging SOAP / XFire with ethereal

Posted on July 5, 2007 by ajohnson

I’ve spent way more time than I should have the last couple weeks working to help migrate a website built against Jive Forums to run against a Clearspace X instance. As part of the migration, one of the things I … Continue reading →

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instantFeeds 1.0.3

Posted on April 17, 2007 by ajohnson

New version of instantFeeds: version 1.0.3. It includes a two new features: you can now turn off your notifications by sending the command ‘off’ (kind of like an out of office feature) and turn them back on by sending the … Continue reading →

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instantFeeds 1.0.2

Posted on April 3, 2007 by ajohnson

I uploaded a new version of instantFeeds tonight: version 1.0.2 includes a couple new features (including feed auto-discovery using HTML Parser) and some minor tweaks / bug fixes. Check out the release notes, the source repository or just skip to … Continue reading →

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instantFeeds 1.0.1

Posted on March 27, 2007 by ajohnson

I updated the instantFeeds plugin tonight to fix a couple bugs with the postgres and hsqldb installation scripts that the guys on the Ignite Realtime site found. You can download 1.0.1 (again, assuming you have already!) and get the latest … Continue reading →

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