Software Build and Release Specialist

Latest Entries
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 [...]

May 15

How To Increase Heap Size for ANT’s OutOfMemory Error using ANT_OPTS

Ever run into an ANT compilation or ANT task related compilation OutOfMemoryError problem? This little bugger of a problem can be rather tricky to debug. You may run into this problem when you have a large collection of source files to compile (think 1000+). You may also run into this problem with the following WebLogic [...]

Apr 16

Release Management Access Control

Access Control, at first glance seems to be a rather straight forward topic or task to handle.  Well, I can assure you it is not.  Especially when you’re working in an Engineering organization that seems to be schizophrenic at times in terms of its own unique identity.   I’m talking about how there should be [...]