February, 2011 | Andy Gibson

Generate Test Data with DataFactory

Andy Gibson Articles

DataFactory is a project I just released which allows you to easily generate test data. It was primarily written for populating database for dev or test environments by providing values for names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, text, and dates.

Shrinkwrap DSLs Makes Building Config Files Easy

Andy Gibson Articles

If you’ve used Shrinkwrap you might have noticed that creating configuration files can be a bit of a burden requiring you to manually build XML configuration files yourself as strings. This article shows how the DSLs being added to Shrinkwrap will make configuring your deployments far easier.

Google is just looking out for the folks

Andy Gibson News, QuickBytes

I noticed this little nugget in the Google Analytics FAQ : Due to user privacy concerns, Google Analytics doesn’t report on personally identifiable information, including a visitor’s IP address. Is this the same Google that will take a picture of you in your own home from 20 feet away, post it online, and tell you […]

JBoss Java EE 6 spec dependency in Maven

Andy Gibson QuickBytes

Adam Bien wrote about the Troubled with the crippled Java EE 6 APIs in Maven and a solution for them. Another solution has presented itself now that JBoss has finalized the Java EE 6 spec pom and added it to their public repositories as of early January 2011. You can include the spec in your […]

Delphi still fighting the war lost years ago

Andy Gibson Articles

Embarcadero announced the release of the Delphi XE Starter edition for building native windows applications. I spent many years as a Delphi developer before I made the switch to Java while the Delphi programming language and tools were top notch at the time. However, with the years of abuse at the hands of Borland and […]

Simple RESTful web services with Glassfish

Andy Gibson Articles

Here’s a quick guide to creating a RESTful web service with Glassfish using JAX-RS.

A Little Less Conversation…

Andy Gibson Articles

One thing that I wrote that I haven’t really gotten around to examining and verifying in closer detail and validating my position on is the production of the conversational entity manager in the Knappsack archetypes. This article looks at this and re-evaluates my thinking on the use of conversational contexts in CDI.