Shutdown Apache James Mail Server - Java Utility

February 16th, 2006 Often we come across procedures which need to be performed by issuing commands in a telnet session. It is relatively easy to do it manually but is definitely not suitable for automation.

October 19th, 2005 With its latest release of the software, Apache announced that Geronimo 1.0-M5 Java application server has passed all the compatibility tests and has gained official J2EE1.4 certification of the Java server software standard. Apache Geronimo 1.0-M5 is completely integrated with the Tomcat Web server and includes a developer preview of web management console submitted to Apache by IBM.

July 21st, 2006 dnsjava is a popular implementation of DNS in Java. It supports all defined record types (including the DNSSEC types), and unknown types.

May 4th, 2005 The simplest configuration is described. It assumes you already have Tomcat 5.5 and Apache 2.0 (instructions for Apache 1.3 is also provided) installed and running.

August 7th, 2006 I will provide a simple utility for you to shutdown and power-off Microsoft windows. You can also configure it to shutdown on any keystroke combination.

September 25th, 2006 Many would think at this point I am talking about better AJAX support in the core. While we do need better support for AJAX and I am not talking about DWR, I don't think that's what ails Java in its quest for being.

October 23rd, 2006 .htaccess is a web server directive file populalrly used in Apache Web Server in Linux / Unix environment. In windows environment there is a simple way to enable and use .htaccess.

January 24th, 2008 You have two options. Either you tear your (remaining) hair looking for solution on the web and trying different changes to Apache Web Server or Explorer even try magic incantations (alohamora?).

July 26th, 2006 I have seen myriad errors when executing java task. For example I have seen: javax.xml.parsers.FactoryConfigurationError?: Provider org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl? not found when executing the java task in jdk1.5.0 The problems with debugging the errors is that the commandline used by java task is not visible, even in verbose mode.

May 9th, 2005 Which JVM do you want to use today?

May 19th, 2006 Sun Microsystems (SUNW) is hosting Grid CoolApps Developer Challenge - a contest to develop applications for Sun Grid Compute Utility and the 'coolest' applications win! There are two ways to compete - the best application that runs on Sun Grid Compute Utility, and the best application built with the Compute Server Plugin for NetBeans. In addition to US residents this contest is open to international participants too, those who cannot access the Sun Grid Compute Utility today.

September 4th, 2006 Joel Spolsky was asked four important questions on enterprise development. Joel didn't offer a clear answer on some of them.

July 28th, 2006 This technique will only work if your Apache server has PHP enabled (how to test php support in apache http server) and .htaccess enabled. In the root directory of your html files create a file named .htaccess.

September 23rd, 2006 This is a simple commandline Java utility which I wrote down in under 5 minutes to help in checking-in (svn commit) over 500 files which were modified but the dates weren't changed due to an error in our settings. So subversion failed to recognize it.

January 17th, 2006 HSQLDB, the famous fast RDBMS written in Java, introduced a new feature which affects code ported over from previous versions. From version 1.7.2, in-process databases are no longer closed when the last connection to the database is explicitly closed via JDBC.