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Java RS Library

RS Library V1.1.0 released

I had to do some rework for the RS Library. The most important changes are:

  • RSLIB-19 – Improved DAO registration in abstract DaoFactory implementation
  • RSLIB-20 – Upgrade to Hibernate 4
  • RSLIB-22 – Provide modules as OSGI packages
  • RSLIB-23 – Cache Control for DAOs

A complete documentation can be found either through Javadocs or the appropriate module homepages:

The Maven coordinates are:

   <dependency>
      <groupid>eu.ralph-schuster</groupid>
      <artifactid>baselib</artifactid>
      <version>1.1.0</version>
   </dependency>
 
   <dependency>
      <groupid>eu.ralph-schuster</groupid>
      <artifactid>data</artifactid>
      <version>1.1.0</version>
   </dependency>
 
   <dependency>
      <groupid>eu.ralph-schuster</groupid>
      <artifactid>data-hibernate</artifactid>
      <version>1.1.0</version>
   </dependency>
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Java RS Library

Apache ServiceMix, Camel and XSL Transformation

This topic cost me a few hours. It is basically how to achieve XML transformation when your original XML file contains a DTD reference that cannot be resolved from your system.

My DTD reference looked like this:

<!DOCTYPE root-element SYSTEM "../dtd/core.dtd">

and the route was simply:

	<camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
		<route>
			<from uri="file:data/inbox"/>
			<to uri="xslt://xslt/transformation.xsl"/>
			<to uri="file:data/outbox"/>
		</route>
	</camelContext>

The Camel transformation was always complaining about the missing DTD because it was looking for it in the filesystem instead of the bundle.

There exist many hints on the net but none of them really helped (e.g. using a CatalogResolver). So I decided to tamper my Camel route and adding a bean inbetween:

	<bean id="dtdTransformer" class="de.example.xslt.DtdTransformer"/>
 
	<camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
		<route>
			<from uri="file:data/inbox"/>
			<bean ref="dtdTransformer"/>
			<to uri="xslt://xslt/bundesliga.xsl"/>
			<to uri="file:data/outbox"/>
		</route>
	</camelContext>

This DtdTransformer is a simple class having one method, transform():

	public static final String DOCTYPE_LINE = "<!DOCTYPE root PUBLIC \"-//PRIVATE//RS//EN\" \"###URI###\">";
 
	public String transform(String body) throws Exception {
		URL url = FileFinder.find(getClass(), "dtd/core.dtd");
		if (url != null) {
			body = body.replaceAll("<!DOCTYPE[^>]*>", DOCTYPE_LINE).replaceAll("###URI###", url.toURI().toString());
		}
		return body;
	}

The URI will be replaced by looking up the DTD file at runtime, here by using my FileFinder class. Then it continues with replacing the special marker ###URI### by the real URI from the file found.

Although the solution sounds so simple, it took me quite a while to find out that the DOCTYPE references needs to be a URI and not a file or URL reference.

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Java RS Library

RS Library 1.0.0 released

Finally it’s done. I decided to release the first version of all those classes that I implemented and collected throughout the last years, the RS Library. A complete documentation can be found either through Javadocs or the appropriate module homepages:

The Maven coordinates are:

   <dependency>
      <groupid>eu.ralph-schuster</groupid>
      <artifactid>$module</artifactid>
      <version>1.0.0</version>
   </dependency>