I find that this comes up fairly frequently. You find some useful library: perhaps it does logging, or enforces design-by-contract, or it provides an API for calling web services. But someone on the team suggests that instead of using the library directly, we should create a wrapper: "that way, if …
Posted Sun 03 July 2011 by mcherm in Programming
A few notes on a bug I had so next time I won't make the same mistake.
In spring-ws, in the class org.springframework.ws.soap.saaj.SaajSoapMessage, in the method getImplementation(), it uses SaajUtils.getSaajVersion(SOAPMessage) to determine the SAAJ version of this message. Unfortunately, that has a bug …
Posted Sun 08 May 2011 by mcherm in Programming
In his blog, Eric Lippert issued an interesting programming challenge. (Follow the link for details of the requirements.) Here is my solution.
# # Programming challenge from # http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2010/09/09/old-school-tree-display.aspx # # Done in Python, by Michael Chermside # import unittest import itertools # ============== Provided Problem ============== class …
Posted Thu 09 September 2010 by mcherm in Programming
Just a brief entry so the NEXT time this happens I can search and find the solution.Once before I had this problem, but I couldn't remember the solution so this time I am writing it down. We (a Profile developer and I) were adding a new MRPC. When I …
Posted Fri 20 August 2010 by mcherm in Programming
In my previous post, I defined a number of different features that logging libraries could have. This time, I will evaluate some Java libraries based on those features. I'll start by ranking these according to how important I think they are, at least for my purposes.
Posted Tue 09 February 2010 by mcherm in Programming