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2 April 2006

Better jUnit-ing

jUnit has been around for a long time. But there are always better techniques to implement old ways. I have provided below an efficient junit aprroach integrated with DbUnit and Spring with support for transaction and hibernate open session. Significant features are:

Integration with DbUnit: DbUnit puts database into a known state between test runs. Pre-loads [...]

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29 March 2006

Java Puzzler: Thine Stack Overfloweth

THE PROBLEM:
A buddy of mine chatted me up over IM the other day with the following, seemingly simple problem:

He has a class that extends the standard Java 1.4 Exception class (BaseException)
Whenever he catches a thrown BaseException, and tries to print the stacktrace (via BaseException.printStackTrace()) he gets a java.lang.StackOverflow error.
If he calls getCause().printStackTrace() everything is [...]

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13 March 2006

Access denied error in MySQL

Have you been frustrated with Access denied for user ‘chinnu’@’localhost’ errors even though as root you granted following privileges:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON MyDb.* to ‘chinnu’@'%’ WITH GRANT OPTION;
While % means any host, you probably did not see the behavior you expected.
MySQL performs access control in two stages. First, it tries to connect you with the [...]

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