Raible Designs

Thursday December 26, 2002

Ant won't delete a file - any ideas? I've been experiencing this problem for the last couple of days. Basically, when I run "ant clean" on my project, I get the following error:

file:d:/source/appfuse/build.xml:746: 
  Unable to delete file D:\source\appfuse\dist\appfuse-common.jar

I can delete the "dist" directory in Explorer, and also using "rm -r dist" in Cygwin. Any ideas why Ant is choking on this all of a sudden? Posted in Java at Dec 26 2002, 05:05:32 PM MST 17 Comments

Will this be an all-nighter? I'm making a big push to finish the Struts Chapter tonight. Moreover - to finish the sample application. Things are going well so far. I hope it's not an all nighter, but as soon as I'm satisfied with the application, I'll have to deal with proof-reading the chapter, which could be a real headache. On the last chapter, the proof-reading took me an entire day. Ugh.

I just wanna get this darn thing done so I can spend some time with my family again, so I don't have to work weekends, and I can quit (pretty much) working for free. I think the time spent on the sample app will pay off in the long run, as it's already making it easier to develop the application at my new job. I was able to install, compile, deploy and start authenticating/pulling information from Oracle in a matter of hours. That's taken weeks in previous gigs. Of course, if you count the slow machine I had, the meetings and the installation of new software (trying to get the machine setup), then it probably took a week.

I took my home-built machine into work this morning - and all was peachy until I asked the help desk to add my computer to the domain. Politics came into play and I was told that the technicians have to build the machines, not some dev-head. No biggie, just get me a faster machine I said. I argued with the guy for a bit as I tried to explain that a 700 Mhz, 128 MB RAM machine was too slow for Java Development. When he said that was one of the fastest machines they had, I almost choked. Luckily, they found a 2 Ghz machine that I get to start using tomorrow - this'll be the 3rd machine I've built since I started last week. Damn. Sure is nice working from home when you have everything setup already. Do you think that tele-commuting will be the wave of the future? The clients that've paid me to work from home are getting a heckuva better deal than the ones that require an on-site consultant. Posted in Java at Dec 26 2002, 05:01:44 PM MST Add a Comment

RE: Easy Windows Authentication with Tomcat 4.x Robert Rasmussen has a nice post about integrating Tomcat with your NT Domain for authentication. Very cool - and it includes source code! This is my kind of post. My current project in the office is using Oracle to authentication while they wait to transition to using LDAP. However, they're already setup on NT - so I might just suggest using this JAASRealm - it'd surely make things a lot smoother until they get LDAP up and running. Posted in General at Dec 26 2002, 10:45:57 AM MST 1 Comment