Archive for February, 2005

ONJava.com: Using JUnit With Eclipse IDE

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005

Using JUnit With Eclipse IDE is a great simple tutorial on how to use JUnit in Eclipse. It doesn’t assume any knowledge of JUnit, but is useful as a quick tutorial for people wanting to make a switch to the Eclipse development environment.

Simple Introduction to Reflection

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005

Reflection is a mechanism in java that allows to to get information about a class without needing to know the type of the class. The program below takes a java class name as a command line argument and shows you all of the methods and field names that are in the class.
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CheckStyle

Monday, February 21st, 2005

I’ve been using Eclipse and it is a very nice IDE. I’m very impressed with the number of plugin’s available for it. One of the plugins I’ve been using is called CheckStyle. Basically it can check your code for errors whenever you save it. The errors are configurable and it comes with […]

Emailing a webpage from the command line

Sunday, February 20th, 2005

There are many situations whey you have information on a web page that needs to be emailed to individuals on a regular basis. Often times all that is needed is some type of script that will grab a URL, put it in an email and send it to the correct person. This article […]

Using Javascript to Refresh Parent

Thursday, February 10th, 2005

First let me say that I’m not a huge fan of Javascript. I understand the need for Javascript, but generally I prefer to program for a server environment instead of worrying about the client. However I ran into an issue this week that required Javascript, so here is what I learned about refreshing […]