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Tips and tricks

Create registry file (.reg) equivalent to the RegSvr32 command

Posted on 2012/08/01 by

If you have already programmed a bit in OLE/ActiveX/Shell extensions/etc. in the Microsoft world, you already know the RegSvr32 command used to register/unregister these dll components. The regsvr32.exe command only calls the DllRegisterServer entry point, i.e. a method with that … Continue reading →

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Workaround the Grub installation issue in Debian Wheezy

Posted on 2012/04/10 by

The current testing version of Debian, aka Wheezy, contains a rather annoying bug that prevents the installation of Grub, the multi-OS bootstrapper of Linux. Although this bug will be corrected at some point in the possibly near future, it is … Continue reading →

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How to “OSGIfy” an Oracle jdbc driver with Spring Roo

Posted on 2011/07/21 by

If you want to use Spring Roo to reverse engineer an existing Oracle database, you need to bundle the Oracle driver in an OSGI format (this is not required if you want to use Spring Roo with Oracle in a … Continue reading →

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Windows: find the location of the executables

Posted on 2011/06/21 by

After having answered this question for Linux/Unix, I have encountered the same need for Windows. This is what I have found. Since Windows Server 2003 (including Vista and Windows 7), you can use the “where” command. Before Windows Server 2003 … Continue reading →

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Linux: find the location of the executables

Posted on 2011/05/03 by

How to locate the binary, source and/or man page files for a command? $ whereis command ‘whereis’ has some options you can specify in order to limit the places to look at, or the type of files (binary, source, man … Continue reading →

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Maven: check what it really executes

Posted on 2011/04/12 by

      How to aggregate your pom? Sometimes, the need arises to debug a pom file and then you want to have a clear idea of what Maven really executes. This command shows your pom file after the inheritance, profiles and … Continue reading →

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Maven: sources and javadoc (…where available)

Posted on 2011/03/04 by

      How to display the dependencies in your project as a list? mvn dependency:resolve How to display the dependencies in your project as a tree? mvn dependency:tree How to download the source code for the dependencies in your pom? … Continue reading →

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How to replicate an Eclipse update site for offline usage?

Posted on 2010/12/07 by

Today I’d like to share with you an Eclipse tip that I found a few months ago when browsing for an issue in the m2Eclipse Jira. The credit goes to Rich Seddon. Sometimes you need to install an Eclipse plugin … Continue reading →

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