I’ve been playing around with profiler technologies, and recently started having a look at JProfiler – attaching it my ejb running insider JBoss and then running my unit tests. The interesting thing was that I was burning a ton of time inside my XML parser (dom4j). Some of that time I can put down to being a little too keen on XPath, but a good swag was inside parseDocument, so it’s not like I’m going [...]

Ok, so I know the world is in the grip of Groovy madness right now, but for the rules engine of our little spam filter app I’m leaning towards BeanShell. The big sell for me is the lightweight story – less than 200k for the whole thing – including Swing editor – with no other dependencies. Plus I don’t really need to learn any new syntax! It’s groovy in it’s own way The other thing [...]

I’ve blogged earlier about my love for MockEJB… and I’ve since come across MockRunner which not only lets you test EJBs outside the container… it lets you test Servlets, Tags and Struts apps to boot (it actually uses MockEJB to do the underlying EJB stuff, but gives you a nice high level facade to make it happen). Comes with a mock JDBC layer as well (to mock in your DB implementation). I have a servlet [...]