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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Ever run into the problem where you must set multiple builders running different inside of CruiseControl’s scheduler block?  I recently had to do that for one of the projects I’m integrating, but kept on running into inconsistency in CruiseControl 2.8.2. My first attempt was this: <schedule interval="900"> <ant time="1200" anthome="${ANTHOME}" antworkingdir="${my_build.dir}" buildfile="${my_build.file}" target="build.all.then.test" uselogger="true" usedebug="false"/> [...]

Ever run into this error with Perforce’s ‘p4 changes’ or any other similar command? //projectfoo/bar/… – must refer to client ‘some_p4_client’.? I ran into this exact problem today.  I was trying to do a ‘p4 changes //projectfoo/bar/…@xxxxxx,yyyyyy’ to get a history of the changelist and got that error. The symptoms were that doing the same [...]

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