Creating beautiful release notes with git, gradle and markdown

Posted on 13/03/2014 by Peter

During the last days I asked myself how to generated releases notes from information that are available in commit / tag messages from git. The decisions My first approach was to create the list of changes directly from the commit messages, but this approach has multiple drawbacks. The commit messages must be written very disciplined […]

Released : CDIProperties – v.1.0.0

Posted on 23/02/2014 by Peter

Inspired by the tutorial about writing CDI extensions I wrote several days ago I created a CDI extension which targets exactly this topic CDIProperties This handy library enables a CDI (in a standalone or application server environment) application to directly inject properties from a property file. It’s extensible via an SPI, so that you can […]

Tutorial: Writing your own CDI extension

Posted on 02/02/2014 by Peter

Today I will show you how to write a CDI extension. CDI provides a easy way for extending the functionality, like adding own scopes, enabling java core classes for extension, using the annotation meta data for augmentation or modification, and much more. In this tutorial we will implement an extension that will inject properties from […]

Tip: Disable log4j 2′s shutdown handler

Posted on 29/01/2014 by Peter

At the moment I develop at tyntec an java application that should run as a daemon process on a server to process files and send the result to a remote data sink. One crucial part of this application is the shutdown. Currently running file processing tasks must run to the end. Queued ones should be […]

Using CDI standalone

Posted on 15/01/2014 by Peter

Today I will show you how to use CDI in your appplication, when you don’t have the a JEE server. CDI is the Context and Dependency Injection, as defined in the JSR-346 (CDI 1.1) and JSR-299 (CDI 1.0). It is a powerful and lightweight mechanism that provides dependency injection, contextual lifecycles, events, decorators and interceptors. But […]

DataFX – @Named support (accepted)

Posted on 04/01/2014 by Peter

During the christmas and new year holidays I implemented the @Named feature for DataFX. It’s already accepted and merged into the validation branch of DataFX (Thanks to Hendrik Ebbers). This feature enables a user to inject different instances of a bean into a controller, distinguished by a resource name via @Named annotation. You can, for […]

GIT & ZShell : Colorize your shell depending on your branch

Posted on 05/11/2013 by Peter

As announced in my last post I asked my colleague Tillman if I’m allowed to post his nice extension for the zshell (as you may have concluded he gives his OK ). And here it is

# Required to have the colour names
autoload colors zsh/terminfo
if [[ "$terminfo[colors]" -ge 8 ]]; then
  colors
fi
for color in RED GREEN YELLOW BLUE MAGENTA CYAN WHITE; do
  eval PR_$color='%{$terminfo[bold]$fg[${(L)color}]%}'
  eval PR_LIGHT_$color='%{$fg[${(L)color}]%}'
  (( count = $count + 1 ))
done
PR_NO_COLOUR="%{$terminfo[sgr0]%}"

# Thanks Tillman
function get_color(){
 BRANCH=`git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`
 case "$BRANCH" in
 *master*) COLOR=${PR_RED} ;;
 *hotfix*) COLOR=${PR_MAGENTA} ;;
 *release-candidate*) COLOR=${PR_YELLOW} ;;
 *release*) COLOR=${PR_YELLOW} ;;
 *bugfix*) COLOR=${PR_CYAN} ;;
 *develop*) COLOR=${PR_BLUE} ;;
 *) COLOR=${PR_GREEN} ;;
 esac
 echo $COLOR
}

# Required to have the colour names

autoload colors zsh/terminfo

if [[ "$terminfo[colors]" -ge 8 ]]; then

colors

for color in RED GREEN YELLOW BLUE MAGENTA CYAN WHITE; do

eval PR_$color='%{$terminfo[bold]$fg[${(L)color}]%}'

eval PR_LIGHT_$color='%{$fg[${(L)color}]%}'

(( count = $count + 1 ))

done

PR_NO_COLOUR="%{$terminfo[sgr0]%}"

# Thanks Tillman

function get_color(){

BRANCH=`git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`

case "$BRANCH" in

*master*) COLOR=${PR_RED} ;;

*hotfix*) COLOR=${PR_MAGENTA} ;;

*release-candidate*) COLOR=${PR_YELLOW} ;;

*release*) COLOR=${PR_YELLOW} ;;

*bugfix*) COLOR=${PR_CYAN} ;;

*develop*) COLOR=${PR_BLUE} ;;

*) COLOR=${PR_GREEN} ;;

esac

echo $COLOR

}

The color mapping is the same as in these graphic Applying can be done, for example, when adding this git […]

Gradle & GIT : How to map your branch to a deployment profile

Posted on 01/11/2013 by Peter

Today I would like to show you how easy you can create conventions on your branching model and map these conventions to deployment / environment profiles. Where we come from Usually a project needs to have different settings for different environments (production, testing, staging, etc. pp.). Maven provides for this a nice plugin, but Gradle lacks […]

Arquillian – Very first best practice

Posted on 28/10/2013 by Peter

During usage of Arquillian I figured out some things that could be a starting point for best practices when testing with Arquillian. In my application I had some defaults that I have to do every time, when I would like to implement a new test. Add logging Add persistence.xml For different domains, add all classes […]

DataFX forked – @ContextResource added