A really stupid bug in Windows Vista

Erde an Redmond: Bitte fixen:

There is a nasty bug in Windows Vista. After accessing a file on a CD and removing the CD (after cleanly ejecting it via Windows Explorer), some hours later, when I wanted to start NetWeaver Developer Studio (NWDS, an extended version of Eclipse), I got the error message "Windows-No Disk, Exception processing message 0xc0000013 parameters ...". It was extremely sticky and re-appeard no matter on which button I clicked. The solution (after some serious googling) was to put a CD in the drive. This is just one example of the benefits you get from using the great new operating system from Microsoft. My recommendation: stick to XP for another two years, until Vista has emerged as stable.

[coding] Cooles Tool zum Testen von Web-Services

Heute mal wieder ein engischer Programmierungs-Produktivitäts-Post

If you ever develop an application that exposes web services (in the W3C sense of the word), at some point you will need to test the functionality. I recommend soapUI (http://www.soapui.org/) for this. The tool can generate random SOAP requests based on any imported WSDL file. You can change and save the requests and submit them any time and get the SOAP response displayed in a nice and clean way.
I use it for development of Java 5 EE on SAP Netweaver and I prefer soapUI over the built-in, web-based testing tool "NetWeaver WS Navigator".

Viel Spaß damit!

[coding] How to make Eclipse behave when working on code managed by SVN

So, heute mal auf Englisch:

Eclipse can really screw up your locally checked-out SVN copy. The problem is, that it copies the “.svn” directories from the source folders (where they belong) to the output folder next to the compiled classes (where they should not be). The result is disastrous: you can neither commit nor update any more – and even the cleanup fails.

To avoid this, make sure to make the following build path settings for each of the projects: open the build path properties on the source page and add the following exclusion pattern to every source folder: **/?svn/**

This is Ant syntax for any path below each svn folder anywhere in the source path. Now your output folders will remain clean, since Eclipse will ignore and not copy them when creating your build folder.

PS: Ja, ich weiß, es ist schlechter Stil Deutsch und English in einem Blog zu mischen. Allerdings ist diese Lösung so universell und so schlecht er-google-bar, dass ich meine, ich müsse die Lösung dem erreichbaren Wissen der Menschheit hinzufügen. Und mit Englisch erreicht man eben mehr Menschen.