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JBoss Client Jars for Messaging

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Prior to JBoss 5, the jboss-all-client.jar was pretty much all you needed. However, the JBoss 5 Getting Started Guide states the following: The client/jbossall-client.jar library that used to bundle the majority of jboss client libraries, is now referencing them instead through the Class-Path manifest entry. This allows swapping included libraries (e.g. jboss-javaee.jar) without having to [...]

rsh hates nohup

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rsh has issues with nohup. Yes, I know rsh is evil. It wasn't my decision.

Torquebox and Cygwin: Take I

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Torquebox and Cygwin don’t work as nicely together as one might hope. That said, here are a couple of findings: In order to deploy, you need to set the $JBOSS_HOME with the Windows path.  You can do this via export JBOSS_PATH=`cygpath -w PATH_TO_JBOSS`. Additionally, the JRUBY_HOME needs to be a windows path as well.   Otherwise [...]

Rails & JRuby in a Jar

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This is a discussion of what I needed to do to put rails and JRuby together in a single jar.

Fractal Terrain Generation

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I've been working on a wargaming library/framework off and on for over a year; along the way I've encountered a number of interesting problems to solve. This blog entry details one of them, fractal terrain generation.

Quick thought on programming and distractions

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“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.” – Buddha Too often it’s easy to spend hours days weeks far too long reading blogs and wilfing doing research.  Looking for that perfect tool.  Looking for a wonderful library.  Looking for a new technique.  Looking, looking, looking.  Almost like Hans Guck-in-die-Luft, [...]

Using jnp as a JBoss heartbeat

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jnp is a JBoss protocol which exposes jndi.  It is, by default, bound to port 1099.  I’d been using that port as a heartbeat, but “cheating” — I would open a socket and then close it immediately.  However, this caused problems.  jnp is chatty.  And it got upset at my not letting it say ‘hi’ [...]

z-index and events

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Today’s lesson has to do with z-index and events. I’d had a png with transparant portions that I wanted to use as a mask, so that information from underneath would not show. However, buttons, links, and hovers were not working — the top level element was taking the events and eating them. A change of [...]

JBoss port confusion

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Sometimes, JBoss reports that it is unable to bind to a port, saying it is already in use. However, this is not always the case.

SSL Joys

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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. Andrew S. Tanenbaum I’ve been working with a Apache proxy to force SSL and https.  Well, I haven’t had any control over the certificates.  And they can come in so many versions, especially given that Microsoft wants to do [...]