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My week started with a look at an evaluation of Spring MVC or JSF+?.

But it wasn’t long before I was consumed by OSGi to the extent that’s I’ve hardly looked at anything else. I intend to post some sort of summary for myself at some point, once my brain has stopped bubbling.

I did find a reasonably interesting/useful page on the Struts 2 plugin architecture.

I was needing to brush up a style sheet and wanted a clean way to apply drop shadows, which I found here.

I often use the in-line lists for page navigation, but I hadn’t come across the use of floats described in this post here and here. However, while looking for a slick way of producing “rounded corners”, I found an implementation using sliding doors that happened to have the drop shadow I was after as part of the border image here, though I must admit to preferring the variation I found here.

And when I needed to print CSS background images, this post proved most helpful.

Along the way, I stumbled across the site Position Is Everything which looked like it might be worth making a note of.

Following the news of the Spring Source Application Platform I need to look back at this post on web applications and OSGi.

I also enjoyed this post on converting Java to Groovy.

Following a little foray down the path of UML modelling XML Schemas for a colleague, this article articulated what I was trying to get across much better than I could have. Rational Software Architect unfortunately couldn’t quite grasp it quite as easily. No change there then…

Test first is not a silver bullet; there are still things you may not see until much later. I ran into a read time out recently that was only manifesting on a pre-production server. The stack trace indicated what was going on but the site’s behaviour was not what I would have expected.

2008-04-15 09:25:36,387 ERROR [com.foo.bar.service.impl.ServiceImpl] -
AxisFault
faultCode: {http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/}Server.userException
faultSubcode:
faultString: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
faultActor:
faultNode:
faultDetail:
{http://xml.apache.org/axis/}stackTrace:java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method)
at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:129)
at java.io.BufferedInputStream.fill(BufferedInputStream.java:218)
at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(BufferedInputStream.java:235)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender.readHeadersFromSocket(HTTPSender.java:583)

Anyway, after a bit of head scratching, it ended up being quite straightforward to recreate locally by simply overriding the JaxRpcPortProxyFactoryBean and setting the timeout to something unreasonably small.

import javax.xml.rpc.Stub;
import org.springframework.remoting.jaxrpc.JaxRpcPortProxyFactoryBean;

public class ServiceJaxRpcFactoryBean extends JaxRpcPortProxyFactoryBean {
	private static final String TIMEOUT_PROPERTY_KEY = "axis.connection.timeout";

	protected void preparePortStub(Stub stub) {
		super.preparePortStub(stub);
		stub._setProperty(TIMEOUT_PROPERTY_KEY, new Integer(100));
	}
}