Chris Searle

Just updated the grails based pastebin.

I got fed up (read embarrassed) by the autogenerated URLs. They were simply too long as it was using UUID to generate the URLs.

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When importing a maven pom that uses the gmaven plugins - remember to go into project structure settings and set src/main/groovy as sources and src/test/groovy as test sources.

I'd also like to know why on import of a project that has had mvn install run on it causes Idea to have issues about generated source mismatch etc - mvn clean then a rebuild in Idea will fix this but I can't pin down what is not right.

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I needed to generate a new certificate for glassfish's admin pages.

Instead of using the normal OpenSSL self-signed certificate it was easier just to use the java keystore keytool

keytool -genkey -keyalg RSA -alias
<alias_referred_to_in_glassfish>
-keystore glassfish/domains/domain1/config/keystore.jks
-storepass changeit

Note the -keyalg RSA - keytool by default uses DSA and firefox 3.0 will not accept this even with an added security exception.

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Why do most people use Load Time Weaving (LTW)? It requires replacing the javaagent/classloader of your JVM which can lead to all sorts of issues.

Let's take a look at getting Compile Time Weaving (CTW) instead.

This post is using spring 2.5.2, aspectj 1.5.4, java 1.5. (Spring 2.5.4 uses a later version of weaver (3.0 vs. 5.0) - I assume AspectJ 1.6.0 but the aspectj-maven-plugin is also based around 1.5.4 - so for now we'll stick with this combination.)

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I use a plugin to Aperture to send mail to gmail. It was failing due to a

javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path
building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find
valid certification path to requested target

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To enable compile time weaving of the spring aspects (spring-aspects.jar) in Intellij IDEA (I am using 7.0.3 - but I assume this to be similar for other versions):

1. Install and enable the AspectJ plugin (http://intellij.expertsystems.se/aspectj.html) - it was available in the plugin manager lists by default
2. Under Settings > AspectJ Weaver, search for aspects - add the spring-aspects jar and enable weaving
3. In the build menu - make sure AspectJ weaving is enabled

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Normally you deploy to a third party repository with a command similar to:

mvn deploy:deploy-file -Dfile=/path/to/file -DrepositoryId=repositoryId
-Durl=wagon:protocol://path/to/repo -DgroupId=groupId -DartifactId=artifactId
-Dversion=version -Dpackaging=packageType

But - to deploy via webdav needs a snapshot wagon.

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There are several reasons you may need to add a self-signed https ssl certificate to your local java keystore.

For me - its so that maven can access DAV shares for repository deployment.

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After adding

CATALINA_OPTS=-javaagent:/path/to/aspectweaver-1.5.3.jar

tomcat started failing - giving an "Illegal type in constant pool" about log4j.

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When using spring-ldap - if you get a NoClassDefFoundError for com.sun.jndi.ldap.ctl.ResponseControlFactory then you need the ldap booster pack (currently 1.0).

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