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Osgish

Posted on March 2nd, 2010 by roland

This is the first announcement about my new toy osgish [os-gish], a shell for OSGi containers.

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Jmx4Perl 0.60 released

Posted on February 28th, 2010 by roland

Jmx4Perl’s next release 0.60 is out in the wild.

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Damit dem Windows-Team nichts mehr entgeht – Allesfresser check_logfiles

Posted on February 26th, 2010 by lausser

Folgende Anfrage wurde von einem Kunden an mich gerichtet:

Jetzt kam von den Admin die Anfrage ob es nicht möglich ist alle Meldungen (winwarncrit) erstmal als Warning an Nagios zu melden, um dann bestimmte Meldungen nach und nach als Critical einzustufen, oder komplett zu verwerfen (exclude).
Geht das?

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Citrus: More XPath validation power

Posted on February 26th, 2010 by Christoph

In my last post (citrus-xpath-validation-power) I solved a validation problem regarding generic XML data structures with some XPath expression power. Now in latest 1.1-SNAPSHOT version of Citrus things become even more straightforward.

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Citrus: XPath validation power

Posted on February 18th, 2010 by Christoph

I recently struggled with the validation of a very generic XML data structure in some message payload. It turned out to be a good example where XPath validation can overcome the normal XML tree comparison. I’d like to share my thoughts about this issue, because others might run into similar problems too and the solution with XPath really impressed me with its powerful validation possibilities.

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Citrus sources on GitHub

Posted on February 11th, 2010 by Christoph

The Citrus project sources are now available on GitHub for public checkout. You can clone/fork the Citrus project via Git and build your own version on your local machine. Visit the Citrus project site on GitHub for more details.

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Localized citrus.properties

Posted on February 3rd, 2010 by Christoph

In larger projects usually a team of testers is working on Citrus integration tests. This means that we need to localize the citrus.properties for testing on different machines, as each tester executes test cases with individual environment settings. In this post I’d like to share an easy way to localize the Citrus settings with Maven.

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Citrus: Latest 1.1-SNAPSHOT version available

Posted on February 2nd, 2010 by Christoph

We put a further Citrtus 1.1-SNAPSHOT version online (see http://www.citrusframework.org).

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Customizing meta information

Posted on January 18th, 2010 by Christoph

Test cases in Citrus are usually provided with some meta information like the author’s name or the date of creation. This post shows how to extend on this to include your very specific meta data on your own.

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Jmx4Perl OSGi Bundle

Posted on January 10th, 2010 by roland

The first developer version jmx4perl 0.55_1 with OSGi support has been pushed to CPAN.

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