https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:26:33 GMT Clearspace 2.5.7 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2011-12-23T12:26:33Z https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/12/23/fun-with-camel When customizing Elastic Path the most common form of Java-code level customization is integration with an external fulfillment service.  This integration can take many forms, depending on your architecture:  SOAP or Restful Web services, JMS messages, integration camel fulfillment route Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:41:16 GMT darren.pendery@elasticpath.com https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/12/23/fun-with-camel 2011-12-23T12:41:16Z 1 month, 2 weeks ago https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/comment/fun-with-camel https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=1158 https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/12/12/connect-subversion-and-perforce-with-git git-svn, meet git-p4 Many developers have started to use Git, a distributed VCS that offers a lot of advantages over centralized repositories when it comes to team development.  This is further fueled by the success of the integration tool between Git subversion perforce svn p4 merge branch git rebase trunk commit Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:49:10 GMT roy.lim@elasticpath.com https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/12/12/connect-subversion-and-perforce-with-git 2011-12-12T20:49:10Z 1 month, 4 weeks ago https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/comment/connect-subversion-and-perforce-with-git https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=1157 https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/10/06/excursions-into-hash-code-equals Introduction   Although at times the hashCode and equals methods seem to be a “no-glory” implementation, they are extremely important in maintaining correct data manipulation. Joshua Bloch's Effective Java has an excellent overview of the concerns Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:03:47 GMT dave.baker@elasticpath.com https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/10/06/excursions-into-hash-code-equals 2011-10-06T21:03:47Z 4 months, 4 days ago https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/comment/excursions-into-hash-code-equals https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=1155 https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/09/19/clustering-quartz-jobs Overview The standard Elastic Path Quartz jobs are tied to the JVM and are not distributed.   If configured on multiple servers they will be executed on multiple servers simultaneously.  The challenge is that jobs which update entities should not be quartz scheduler jobs clustering cluster clustered distributed reliability persisted factory Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:22:22 GMT darren.pendery@elasticpath.com https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/09/19/clustering-quartz-jobs 2011-09-19T15:22:22Z 4 months, 3 weeks ago https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/comment/clustering-quartz-jobs https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=1154 https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/09/13/a-look-into-code-review-tools--code-collaborator Code review is a good way to catch mistakes, review designs, and help developers learn from each other.  Over-the-shoulder reviews are an easy habit to enforce for small teams, where developers are only a chair slide away.  With more projects spanning code tools quality tool review collaborator Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:00:30 GMT linus.yuen@elasticpath.com https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/09/13/a-look-into-code-review-tools--code-collaborator 2011-09-13T16:00:30Z 4 months, 4 weeks ago https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/comment/a-look-into-code-review-tools--code-collaborator https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=1153 https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/09/09/having-fun-with-swt Background Being new to the SWT I wanted to learn a little about the API by making a simple change to the Commerce Manager UI. I put this post together with the hope that it might have some useful tidbits for other SWT newbies out there.   Goal The customization cmclient 6.2 Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:45:15 GMT arman.sharif@elasticpath.com https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/09/09/having-fun-with-swt 2011-09-09T16:45:15Z 5 months, 2 weeks ago https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/comment/having-fun-with-swt https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=1149 https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/08/26/index-replication-with-solr-14 NOTE:  All testing done using EP 6.3.1(solr 1.4).  Any numbers regarding performance should be treated as results of beta testing.   Previous to Solr 1.4 (included in EP 6.3), index replication was handled by a cron job.  The job would execute Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:24:40 GMT mike.klemarewski@elasticpath.com https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/08/26/index-replication-with-solr-14 2011-08-26T21:24:40Z 5 months, 2 weeks ago https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/comment/index-replication-with-solr-14 https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=1152 https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/08/04/load-tuning--the-kobayashi-maru-of-openjpa In Star Trek there is a test named the Kobayashi Maru given to all Starfleet Academy cadets. In this test the civilian vessel Kobayashi Maru is disabled and trapped in the Klingon Neutral Zone, and the cadet must choose whether to leave the ship to openjpa load fetch kobayashi maru kirk plan tuners large object graph Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:44:24 GMT simon.droscher@elasticpath.com https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/08/04/load-tuning--the-kobayashi-maru-of-openjpa 2011-08-04T14:44:24Z 6 months, 1 week ago 10 https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/comment/load-tuning--the-kobayashi-maru-of-openjpa https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=1148 https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/07/18/a-higher-performing-cachingstoreresolver The performance of the OOTB CachingStoreResolver begins to degrade when more than a handful of stores are configured in EP. This post describes a simple replacement implementation that scales much better.   The problem   The StoreResolver is performance storefront Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:11:34 GMT david.clark@elasticpath.com https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/07/18/a-higher-performing-cachingstoreresolver 2011-07-19T00:11:34Z 6 months, 3 weeks ago 3 https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/comment/a-higher-performing-cachingstoreresolver https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=1145 https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/06/14/the-importance-of-teardown-in-junit-3 Why is memory never enough?   Our customer project has a few dozens of integration JUnit tests.  Those are tests coded as JUnit tests loading the core application Spring context to verify the correct behavior of certain parts of our application. testing Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:32:07 GMT yanko.zhivkov@elasticpath.com https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/06/14/the-importance-of-teardown-in-junit-3 2011-06-14T23:32:07Z 8 months, 3 weeks ago 2 https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/comment/the-importance-of-teardown-in-junit-3 https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=1141 https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/06/13/setting-up-eclemma-for-code-coverage Introduction   EclEmma is a free code coverage tool; it works by determining which  parts of Java code are executed during particular  program launches.  For our purposes, these will likely be JUnit test programs.   EclEmma: installs as a Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:46:17 GMT andrew.hendriks@elasticpath.com https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/06/13/setting-up-eclemma-for-code-coverage 2011-06-13T16:46:17Z 7 months, 4 weeks ago 1 https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/comment/setting-up-eclemma-for-code-coverage https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=1142 https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/04/27/command-line-junkie-how-to-run-wars-with-tomcat-maven-plugin I have a love/hate relationship with Eclipse.  It's a great editor with sane default key mappings, but it tries to be too much.  One thing that never worked all that well is the WTP plugin for managing application servers. How many times have you customization maven build tomcat Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:54:25 GMT ronald.chen@elasticpath.com https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/04/27/command-line-junkie-how-to-run-wars-with-tomcat-maven-plugin 2011-04-27T18:54:25Z 9 months, 2 weeks ago https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/comment/command-line-junkie-how-to-run-wars-with-tomcat-maven-plugin https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=1140 https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/04/04/visualizing-openjpa-entity-graphs Overview   'A picture is worth a thousand words' is a really good saying and it proves to be true in many situations. At Elastic Path, we use a tool called OpenJPA Grapher that helps us build a complex graph of entities that are part of the Elastic Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:07:06 GMT yanko.zhivkov@elasticpath.com https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/04/04/visualizing-openjpa-entity-graphs 2011-04-04T18:07:06Z 10 months, 1 week ago 1 https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/comment/visualizing-openjpa-entity-graphs https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=1137 https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/03/31/using-the-maven-reactor-plugin-when-building-maven-projects-in-binary-based-development One of the quirks that I used to have while developing using binary based development is the fact that we have multiple maven projects, and changes to one of the projects (ie. core) will need to be rebuilt in other projects that depend on it (ie. configuration customization maven build binary development based Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:05:43 GMT tommy.chan@elasticpath.com https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/03/31/using-the-maven-reactor-plugin-when-building-maven-projects-in-binary-based-development 2011-03-31T18:05:43Z 10 months, 1 week ago 4 https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/comment/using-the-maven-reactor-plugin-when-building-maven-projects-in-binary-based-development https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=1136 https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/03/25/how-to-use-comelasticpathtestapplication-in-your-maven-project-for-integration-testing Overview: Elastic Path 6.2.2 comes with a little known project called "com.elasticpath.test.application". This project is used as a connector to enable integration testing by exposing the spring application context to hook up Elastic Path core services customization testing maven 6.2.2 test.application com.elasticpath.test.application Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:33:21 GMT tommy.chan@elasticpath.com https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/2011/03/25/how-to-use-comelasticpathtestapplication-in-your-maven-project-for-integration-testing 2011-03-25T18:33:21Z 1 year, 1 week ago https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/comment/how-to-use-comelasticpathtestapplication-in-your-maven-project-for-integration-testing https://grep.elasticpath.com/community/techblog/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=1133