All entries for May 2005

May 31, 2005

Created some galleries

So I created some galleries for various things including my recent visit to Scotland.

If anybody wants any more pictures of Scotland, there are 139 of them ;)

: 31 May 2005 18:18 | Comments (0) | Close comments | Report a problem

Star Wars Episode III – OK, but not brilliant

So I went to see SWIII (Revenge of the Sith) last week in bonny Scotland. Wasn't particularly impressed by it. It was very pretty to watch, and the story was quite good, but it just didn't "get me".

I thought Ewan McGregor (Obi-Wan) was pretty weak, and not very believable, but Hayden Christensen (Anakin) was excellent.

I also missed the millienium falcon which was supposed to appear?

I should state that I am not a huge fan of the Star Wars series, merely a "normal" movie goer, so I am only rating this as a single film. It may well wrap up lots of different threads and explain a whole lot of things, but if you just want to see a film for the film's sake, it was OK, but not brilliant.

Maybe 3/5, or even 4/5 on a good day :)

: 31 May 2005 13:28 | Comments (0) | Close comments | Report a problem

Naughty hibernate ;)

Just helped out a colleague who was wondering why Hibernate was not persisting the child when saving the parent.

Everything was set up correctly (parent->child was non-inverse, cascade included save etc.), however the identifier of the child was java.lang.*L*ong, but the object model property was java.lang.*l*ong.

The app deployed, and hibernate didn't complain about everything, but when it persisted the parent with the new child it executed an update, instead of an insert!

I would have expected hibernate to throw an exception because of the mismatch between declaration and object model, but otherwise it actually makes sense; the unsaved value for Objects is null, the default value of a primitive (long) is 0, so when hibernate determined whether the object was new or not, it would have checked the identifier to see if it was null, which of course, a primitive can never be ;)

Lesson; check your mapping files ;)

: 31 May 2005 11:18 | Tags: Java | Comments (2) | Close comments | Report a problem

Problems with classes compiled with jdk1.5 running on jdk1.4…

So I deployed a war on jboss and kept getting a ClassNotFoundException during springs deployment.

After scratching my head for far too long, I realised I was compiling using jdk1.5, but deploying on jdk1.4 :(

I would have expected an InvalidClass or some such exception, not just a class not found.

Of course it shouldn't work, but a more helpful exception would have been nice ;)

: 31 May 2005 10:47 | Tags: Java | Comments (0) | Close comments | Report a problem

Watch this :)

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Excellent satire on America and their "we rule the world" attitude.

Not at all politically correct, but very very funny. Worth watching, so long as you are not easily offended.

The sex scenes and the wretching scenes had me in stiches!

If you do watch this, which you should, then listen carefully to the music/lyrics.

: 31 May 2005 09:31 | Comments (1) | Close comments | Report a problem

Scotland rocks!

Just returned from my week long holiday in Scotland. Lovely. Absolutely fantastic.

Weather wasn't that good (except for one glorious day), but it didn't make that much difference. Walks/views were amazing, and the dogs absolutely loved it!

Photos to follow….

: 31 May 2005 09:28 | Comments (0) | Close comments | Report a problem

May 20, 2005

Google personalisation

Writing about web page http://www.google.com/ig

Check it out. Works best if you have a gmail account.

: 20 May 2005 11:22 | Comments (0) | Close comments | Report a problem

May 18, 2005

Weird "problem" with hibernate composite–elements

So I have ClassA which has a List of Addresses. Addresses are definately a dependent object, but when modelled in hibernate as a list of composite-elements there is always a null object in the list. The List is also populated with the records from the DB as you would expect, but the first element is always null :(

Bizarre.

: 18 May 2005 15:18 | Tags: Java | Comments (0) | Close comments | Report a problem

Spring "inheritence" between applicationContext and –servlet

So I had a problem with sessions being closed even though OpenSessionInViewFilter was working successfully.

I think it was because my applicationContext had an "import -servlet.xml" statement in it and that was effectively causing the HibernateSessionFactory to be instantiated twice, or at least, to create 2 hibernate sessions.

I resolved this by moving all the DAO stuff into the applicationContext and not importing the servlet context. I didn't realise that servlet.xml can reference beans defined in the applicationContext.xml. Doh!

: 18 May 2005 10:26 | Tags: Java | Comments (0) | Close comments | Report a problem