Maven, Log4j and javax.jms

Log4j version 1.2.15 added features which has new dependencies on sun and javax packages. When you try to build your project using Maven and log4j 1.2.15 you will see this: [INFO] Unable to find resource ‘com.sun.jmx:jmxri:jar:1.2.1’ in repository central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2) [INFO] Unable to find resource ‘com.sun.jdmk:jmxtools:jar:1.2.1’ in repository central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2) [INFO] Unable to find resource …

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How to read environment variables in Java

You can set environment variables or pass them in using the -Dvariablename syntax SET logfile=/location/to/my/log/file.log or java -Dlogfile=/location/to/my/log/file.log HelloWorld When you want to access these environment variables from your Java source file you can use Java 1.5 and newer: String logfileLocation = System.getenv(“logfile”); Java 1.4 and older: String logfileLocation = System.getProperty(“logfile”);

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What jar file does a Java class belong to?

I found this very useful web site that allows you to search what JAR file a specific Java class belongs to. This has proven quite useful to me over the last couple of days when I had to deal with NoClassDefFoundError and ClassNotFoundException problems. You can just enter the name of the class or JAR …

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Mockito an alternative to JMock

I’ve used JMock for quite some time and I’ve found it to be a great and very useful mocking framework for unit testing. I was never quite happy with the syntax though; especially the part where you specify expectations.  Here’s a JMock snippet illustrating an expectation and a return value from a mocked object context.checking(new …

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