An annoyance in IntelliJ IDEA was that the command ‘View Javadoc in external Browser’ did not work
per default on a mac. On a mac with it’s own java sources the api-doc are located inside a jar and therefore
not able to browse through a normal webbrowser. (If you know a browser which can handle a jar://xxx address let me now in a comment)
IntelliJ does not open or extract those files per default so I did by hand with:
cd /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home
jar xf docs.jar // this will extract the contents of the jar
jar xf appledocs.jar // dito
No we need to point IntelliJ to the extracted files. Open your Preferences -> Project Preferences.
Click on the desired JDK and then click on the tab ‘javadocs’. Remove the old entries for the jar and enter
the extracted path
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home/docs/api
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home/appledocs/api
Not it works. To test it, move the cursor to a class,member whatever and press <Shift>+<F1>. The appropriate javadoc should open in your default browser.
This is not a bug fix, just a bad default configuration. I’d like to see this fixed in the next release…
mjava Java intellij, Java, javadoc
Recently I had following problem. I had a bunch of jar-files and I had to find out which jar-file was holding a specific class.
This is a common task, because your java-code told you that a class XY was not in you classpath, so you would have to search for it, if you don’t know already where to find it.
Since I had to do it already 2 times and as I am learning groovy I decided to write a short groovy-script
(are there long groovy-scripts?) which allows me to do that.
It is pretty straight-forward so here it is: searchJar.groovy
mjava Java, cmd-lines groovy, jar, Java
I am playing around with hudson as a integration server.
So far it is very nice and intuitiv, you can even trigger builds by email, mobile etc! And just
yesterday it has groovy-console builtin for monitoring maven2-builds!
Isn’t it a good day when you recover that your new tools already know each other? 
Although I have to admit that hudson lacks some features I would like to have such as
access-control per project. For now there is an access-control (LDAP, Matrix-like etc) for the whole build-server…
mjava IT, Java groovy, hudson, Java, maven
I just read about JSR 666.
First I took it for serious, but when i read about SchrödingerException
I could not help laughing.
My other favorite tough was ‘import *;‘
mjava Java Java, jsr
It seems to me, maven makes quite a buzz nowadays. I just read another RSS-Feed
which praises the maven site-generation:
[LINK: src: javalobby]
mjava IT, Java Java, maven
Well, it is not new, but new to me.
It’s name is COBERTURA. I saw it on the plugins-list of maven.
It can be run as an Ant target or as a standalone. It integrates nicely into maven-reports and here is what it does:
Mehr…
mjava IT, Java cobertura, development, Java, junit, tool