http://www.softonaut.com Exploring the space of software engineering Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:55:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As promised in my last blog entry Map Application in Swing - The Easy Way in this short blog entry i would like to explain how to change the default map providers for the JXMapKit component from the SwingX-WS project. The sample application still has the same functionality as in my ... http://www.softonaut.com/2008/06/30/swinglabs-jmapkit-and-google-maps/ Ever tried to visually represent geographical information in your Swing Application? Wouldn't it be nice to have something similar to Google maps available as a Swing component. Many thanks to the guys at SwingLabs who provide such an easy way to integrate mapping into your own Swing application. I'll try ... http://www.softonaut.com/2008/06/16/map-application-in-swing-the-easy-way/ The company i am currently writing code for uses a proxy for outgoing network calls. The proxy requires a username and password to let you connect to the outside world. So far so good. To connect through the proxy in my Java application first i tried to set the following ... http://www.softonaut.com/2008/06/09/using-javanetauthenticator-for-proxy-authentication/ Due to some network hardware modifications on my ubuntu 7.10 system i already had 6 entries of eth devices. From which only 1 is still in my computer. Now the only network card which i am using has the name "eth5". As some programs expect the default network card as ... http://www.softonaut.com/2008/03/16/howto-re-set-the-eth-mapping/ I recently joined a new project, which is all about Swing GUI programing. We had a lot of weired problems that were nondeterministic. The problem was that the Swing components were accessed from multiple threads which may lead to concurrency problems, sadly Swing doesn't enforce you neither help you to ... http://www.softonaut.com/2007/10/29/debugging-swing-edt-problems/ Maven's Cobertura plugin in version 2.1 introduced a very annoying bug which makes the plugin useless. The generated HTML report always shows 100% line and branch coverage. The most recommended way to avoid this problem is to use version 2.0 of the plugin (see Maven Users mailing list). But that's ... http://www.softonaut.com/2007/05/12/maven-cobertura-plugin-version-21-and-the-100-line-and-branch-coverage-problem/ Recently I wanted to print a web page to a pdf file. As I am using Firefox as my default web browser in Kubuntu this does not work out of the box like in Konqueror. Following steps are necessary to print from Firefox with kprinter (which is able to print ... http://www.softonaut.com/2007/04/06/howto-print-to-a-pdf-in-firefox/ Currently i am using Proximity in an enterprise environment as maven proxy and remote repository mirror. As i am not quite happy with this solution i am still searching for better solutions. My experience so far with the different maven 2 proxies: Archiva: Still alpha; not much documentation, needs to be ... http://www.softonaut.com/2007/03/15/maven-2-proxies/ I am currently trying to get unit tests written in groovy running for a maven project. First i thought this would be easy going but it is definitely not. First i tried the groovy-maven-plugin version 1.0-alpha-1-SNAPSHOT from the 27th of February. As i want to compile my groovy unit test ... http://www.softonaut.com/2007/02/28/maven-2-and-groovy/ 1. Download from Adobe the tar.gz version of the plugin. Extract the downloaded file: tar xvzf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz 2. Close all running Firefox instances. 3. Locate the firefox plugins directory. Under Ubuntu 6.06 it can be found at /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins. 4. Remove any older version of the plugin: sudo rm libflashplayer.so 5. Copy the ... http://www.softonaut.com/2007/02/07/adobe-flash-player-9-for-linux-as-firefox-plugin/