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CSV Eclipse Java RS Library

Eclipse RCP Common Feature launched

Good news for all Eclipse developers that want to use some of my projects in their own Eclipse/RCP projects. I bundled some modules and projects into a Luna Eclipse Feature Plug-In – called RCP Common Feature.

You will need the Update Site http://download.ralph-schuster.eu/rcp-updates/luna/releases/ to be added in your IDE and install the feature as you would do with every other Eclipse feature plug-in.

These are the modules and projects currently bundled:

Furthermore, there are three more plug-ins available specific to Eclipse/E4 UI and logging. The feature plug-in is released under LGPL V3 license (as all projects bundled in it).

 

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Java RsBudget

Luna Update: TranslationService not in context

After migrating my Eclipse/E4 application to the latest release Luna, I noticed that the TranslationService is not present anymore within the E4Workbench.getServiceContext(). At least not at the PostContextCreate stage of the application. This is not a big deal, as you can easily create this yourself:

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   private static TranslationService TRANSLATIONS = getTopContext().get(TranslationService.class);
 
   public static TranslationService getTranslationService() {
      if (TRANSLATIONS == null) {
         TRANSLATIONS = getTopContext().get(TranslationService.class);
         if (TRANSLATIONS == null) {
            TRANSLATIONS = ContextInjectionFactory.make(BundleTranslationProvider.class, getTopContext());
            getTopContext().set(TranslationService.class, TRANSLATIONS);
         }
      }
      return TRANSLATIONS;
   }
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Java Tomcat

Solution to “Tomcat can’t stop [Abandoned connection cleanup thread]”

I am preparing a web service for one of my larger projects, using Tomcat, Hibernate and MySQL. While developing I stumbled across several Tomcat error messages that suggest some threads could not be stopped. Most of the threads could simply be vanished by calling Hibernate’s SessionFactory.close() method. However, a few threads seem to remain, e.g.

Jul 09, 2014 10:55:40 AM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader clearReferencesJdbc
SEVERE: The web application [/examples] registered the JDBC driver [com.mysql.jdbc.Driver] but failed to 
unregister it when the web application was stopped. To prevent a memory leak, the JDBC Driver has been forcibly unregistered.
Jul 09, 2014 10:55:40 AM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader clearReferencesThreads
SEVERE: The web application [/examples] appears to have started a thread named [Abandoned connection cleanup 
thread] but has failed to stop it. This is very likely to create a memory leak.

and in fact, Tomcat stopped working after a few redeployments due to memory problems. Two main reasons:

  1. The MySQL AbandonedConnectionCleanupThread does not shutdown correctly.
  2. The MySQL J/Connector driver doesn’t unregister anymore from the DriverManager.

At least with J/Connector V5.1.31 the problem disappears by using this shutdown procedure (hooked in by a ServletContextListener):

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   try {
      com.mysql.jdbc.AbandonedConnectionCleanupThread.shutdown();
   } catch (Throwable t) {}
   // This manually deregisters JDBC driver, which prevents Tomcat 7 from complaining about memory leaks
   Enumeration<java .sql.Driver> drivers = java.sql.DriverManager.getDrivers();
   while (drivers.hasMoreElements()) {
      java.sql.Driver driver = drivers.nextElement();
      try {
         java.sql.DriverManager.deregisterDriver(driver);
      } catch (Throwable t) {}
   }
   try { Thread.sleep(2000L); } catch (Exception e) {}
</java>

I still have to observe long-term effects and will keep you informed.

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Java RS Library

Using Pooled Data Connections with RS Libs Data Hibernate Library

The standard way of configuring a data source for RSLib’s Data Hibernate Library is to use the driver’s DataSource implementation as shown here:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<dbconfig>
   <property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property>
 
   <datasource class="com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlXADataSource">
      <property name="url">jdbc:mysql://db-host:3306/db-name</property>
      <property name="user">db-user</property>
      <property name="password">db-password</property>
   </datasource>
</dbconfig>

However, this setup will result in creating a new connection each time you start a new transaction. This is most likely not what you want in a productive application. Instead you shall use a pooled DataSource, as the c3p0 project provides:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<dbconfig>
   <property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property>
 
   <datasource class="com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource">
      <property name="driverClass">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>
      <property name="jdbcUrl">jdbc:mysql://db-host:3306/db-name?autoReconnect=true</property>
      <property name="user">db-user</property>
      <property name="password">db-password</property>
   </datasource>
</dbconfig>

I stumbled across this problem while implementing a project and receiving a

java.net.SocketException: No buffer space available (maximum connections reached?): connect

exception.

Update July 26nd: You will need the autoReconnect=true parameter with MySQL to avoid problems with connections in the pools not being used for quite a long time.

Update August 18th: This URL parameter doesn’t work correctly. The solution is to add a c3p0.properties file in your classpath:

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c3p0.maxPoolSize=50
c3p0.minPoolSize=5
c3p0.timeout=0
c3p0.maxStatements=0
c3p0.maxStatementsPerConnection=0
c3p0.idleConnectionTestPeriod=300
c3p0.acquireIncrement=1
c3p0.validate=true
c3p0.preferredTestQuery=SELECT 1;
c3p0.testConnectionOnCheckin=false
c3p0.testConnectionOnCheckout=true

(Don’t try to set these properties via your hibernate.cfg file. Some of them cannot be set there!)

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Miscellaneous

Robots.txt Recommendation for WebSVN

You are using WebSVN on your server? The I recommend to have the following robots.txt in place:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /websvn/log.php
Disallow: /websvn/comp.php
Disallow: /websvn/blame.php
Disallow: /websvn/rss.php

The reason is that search engine robots could consume your server performance, especially when your Subversion repository contains larger files. But even if not: there is no reason why robots should index each and every diff between revisions. 🙂

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Bugzilla for Java

Bugzilla 5 brings REST API

A step towards dynamic HTML sites is being prepared at Bugzilla. Besides some efficiency issues in the XML-RPC API, Bugzilla will come along with a REST API. Details can already be seen at their documentation. Once Bugzilla 5 is out, I will try to incorporate the new features into B4J.

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Miscellaneous

Server Relocated

Hi all,

I relocated the server beginning of June. This results in a few outages of Jira and Subversion. Especially SVN users shall be aware that the SVN host is svn.ralph-schuster.eu now. Older SVN URLs will not work anymore.

Almost all services are already fully functioning. The remaining services will be back within a few days.

Thank you for your patience and sorry for the inconvinience.

Ralph

PS: All sites are available with HTTPS now (using a self-signed cetificate).

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Bugzilla for Java Java

B4J V2.0.1 releaseed

A new version 2.0.1 of B4J has been released. It fixes issues found by static code analysis. A complete change log is available as well as the mandatory Maven Site.

You can download the new version here or visit the Homepage of the utility where you will find more documentation.

The Maven coordinates are:

<dependency>
      <groupId>eu.ralph-schuster</groupId>
      <artifactId>b4j</artifactId>
      <version>2.0.1</version>
</dependency>
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CSV Java

CSV/Excel Utility Package V2.7.1 released

The new version 2.7.1 fixes issues found by static code analysis. A complete change log is available as well as the mandatory Maven Site.

You can download the new version here or visit the Homepage of the utility where you will find some examples on how to use it.

The Maven coordinates are:

<dependency>
      <groupId>eu.ralph-schuster</groupId>
      <artifactId>csv</artifactId>
      <version>2.7.1</version>
</dependency>
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Java RS Library

RS Library V1.2.5 released

I released RS Library V1.2.5 which mainly contains fixes to issues found by static code analysis. A complete list of changes can be found here.

The Maven repositories shall be up-to-date by now. The Maven coordinates are:

   <dependency>
      <groupId>eu.ralph-schuster</groupId>
      <artifactId>baselib</artifactId>
      <version>1.2.5</version>
   </dependency>
 
   <dependency>
      <groupId>eu.ralph-schuster</groupId>
      <artifactId>data</artifactId>
      <version>1.2.5</version>
   </dependency>
 
   <dependency>
      <groupId>eu.ralph-schuster</groupId>
      <artifactId>data-file</artifactId>
      <version>1.2.5</version>
   </dependency>
 
   <dependency>
      <groupId>eu.ralph-schuster</groupId>
      <artifactId>data-hibernate</artifactId>
      <version>1.2.5</version>
   </dependency>
 
   <dependency>
      <groupId>eu.ralph-schuster</groupId>
      <artifactId>templating</artifactId>
      <version>1.2.5</version>
   </dependency>