Another chapter in the “tiny CSV library keeps on growing” saga… opencsv 1.5 has gone out the door. The new version includes changes to CSVWriter to allow for easily exporting a SQL table or query to a CVS file. The new method writeAll(ResultSet rs, boolean includeHeaders) makes exporting SQL to CSV a snap! Does the hard work of coercing Bits, CLOBs, Timestamps and whatnot to Strings on the way out. Thanks to Sean Sullivan for [...]

I’m learning Groovy at the moment, and having an absolute ball. If you haven’t played with it for a while, jump on in – things seem very stable these days. I’m finding I’m using it all the time for little scripts. I’ve also had a chance to review a close-to-final Groovy In Action and I gotta tell you that this is gonna be one sensational book. Very accessible writing style coupled with deep technical content [...]

… Then at least get a butt-kicking GUI design tool like WindowBuilder Pro. I’m not a Swing fan. I’m not smart enough to deal with its layout managers nor creating damn model backing objects for my Combo boxes. I’m pretty much SWT only these days (and probably have been for the last two years) and unlike pretty much everyone… I love using a GUI builder (I know, what a pansy… but for the smallish projects [...]

Just uploaded the latest release of opencsv to Sourceforge – a very simple CSV parser under Apache 2.0 license. The new release adds two requested features: Support in CSVReader for skipping first x lines of an incoming file Support in CSVWriter for suppressing quotes in the output of fields The real cool thing from my perspective was that these were both user-submitted changes (thanks Andreus and Peter!). I just had to write the test cases… [...]

If you’ve ever had issues with conflicting versions of the same jar file, you really need to take a look at JarJarLinks . JarJarLinks is an Ant task that lets you repackage jar files into your own package scheme by doing neato bytecode kungfu. So you can do stuff like this to repackage commons-kungfu.jar into your own package structure: <jarjar jarfile=”myapp.jar”> <fileset dir=”build/classes”/> <zipfileset src=”lib/commons-kungfu.jar”/> <rule pattern=”org.apache.commons.kungfu.**” result=”au.com.bytecode.commons.kungfu.@1″/> </jarjar> In the sample above (stolen from [...]