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Feb 11

How to Escape {“‘<>&} Characters in ANT

How exactly do you escape special characters from ANT?  Say if you need to add extra ” quotation characters within a property which already has a set of quotes?
Here’s how to do it — use XML Character entity references:
For > use &gt;
For < use  &lt;
For “ use &quot;
For & use &amp;
For ‘ use &apos;
Any other [...]

May 17

CruiseControl 2.7 Error: atusReportTask- Failed to reach dashboard instance

Are you using CruiseControl 2.7? Have you inspected the CC log lately? Seeing this error message?
atusReportTask- Failed to reach dashboard instance : http://mydomain.com:8080/dashboard/buildloop/listener, either the dashboard has not started up or there is a network problem
Recently I’ve been experiencing some build wlappc jspc freezing issue which I’ve fixed and works fine when I [...]

May 17

WebLogic’s wlappc ANT Task Compilation Freezing/Hanging Errors

Wow.   This little problem was extremely tricky to detect — mainly due to WebLogic’s wlappc ANT Task’s poor documentation.   In one of the projects I’m working on, there is a need to pre-compile WebLogic JSP so it will be much faster during deployment/runtime and we can catch any potential errors early.   Previously, this step of [...]