Maven dependencies for a basic JSF project
With some search and experiments, I figured out the following maven dependencies for a basic JSF project. These dependencies also allow autocompletion of JSF tags in the IDEs like eclipse and intellij idea. I post this for my own reference and may be someone searching for it.
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.hardik.jsfinaction</groupId>
<artifactId>HelloJsf</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>1.0</version>
<name>HelloJsf Maven Webapp</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.0</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>jstl</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.1.2</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.faces</groupId>
<artifactId>jsf-api</artifactId>
<version>1.2_02</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.faces</groupId>
<artifactId>jsf-impl</artifactId>
<version>1.2-b19</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>taglibs</groupId>
<artifactId>standard</artifactId>
<version>1.1.2</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.el</groupId>
<artifactId>el-api</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>HelloJsf</finalName>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<source>1.6</source>
<target>1.6</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<server>tomcat</server>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
A weather plasmoid in python
Ever since I heard about plasma I was eager to find ways to write my own plasmoid. But for the development of binary plasmoids, it is necessary to compile at least a part of kde4, at least this is what I understood from the prerequisite listed on the official tutorial. This discouraged me a bit. Moreover, I think that installation of the binary gadgets also requires to either package them properly according to the distribution you want to distribute for or you need to provide the sources that requires the users to build them. This in my opinion is really a huge overhead for small applications like desktop gadgets / widgets. Then I found that it is also possible to develop plasmoids with script languages like python, ruby and javascript.
Even though, I didn’t know PyQT4 or PyKDE4 libraries at all, I decided to write my first plasmoid in python. This is an exremely simple plasmoid, the core of which was put together in a few hours on a rainy weekend. I have to admit that being a java developer, my code is not pythonic enough.
It can be downloaded from: kde-look.
Here the source code: plasma_pyweather.
The layout is based on my conky setup described here. I have tried to keep it as compact as possible including most of the provided information, if not all. I don’t want the weather information to cover most of the screen. The initial version of the plasmoid was written using the QT4 widgets, but was looking ugly.
The weather information is fetched from google weather api. The location and the unit are configurable. The api provides forecast only for the next 3 days, so the number of forecast days were not made configurable. Some how for google weather api the locale and so the unit is connected to the language, therefor I had to convert the units myself. To keep the display compact I rounded the temperatures to integers.
I got to learn PyQT4 and PyKDE4 libraries while writing this. Especially PyQT4 is a very powerful gui library for python. It is fun programming with it. I have used eclipse + pydev for developing. In the beginning I didn’t have the auto-completion for PyQT4 as well as PyKDE4 in this environment, because they are not installed as pure python source code files. I could fix this with following answer.
The other interesting things, I learned was to use the qt-designer tool for creating gui. It is a nice WYSIWYG tool for designing complex guis. The configuration form is designed using this tool. The qt-designer creates a .ui file, which is an xml file. The .ui file can be converted to the python source code using the pyuic4 tool in the following way.
pyuic4 -o configForm_ui.py ../ui/configForm.ui
I also learned to use the .qrc file for resources like images. The .qrc file can be converted into python source code using pyrcc4 tool
pyrcc4 -o images_rc.py images.qrc
The qrc file is also an xml file which contains the references to the images used. It can be created by just editing.
<RCC>
<qresource prefix="/images">
<file alias="sunny.svgz">../images/sunny.svgz</file>
<file alias="showers.svgz">../images/showers.svgz</file>
<file alias="not-available.svgz">../images/not-available.svgz</file>
<file alias="cloudy.svgz">../images/cloudy.svgz</file>
<file alias="thunderstorms.svgz">../images/thunderstorms.svgz</file>
<file alias="haze.svgz">../images/haze.svgz</file>
<file alias="windy.svgz">../images/windy.svgz</file>
</qresource>
</RCC>
I decided to write this weather plasmoid in python, because all the other weather plasmoids I found were binaries. I have also tried to keep the data and presentation layer separate, I hope I succeeded in that. In fact plasma framework provides a very good way of doing that in terms of data engines. I would also like to use the data engines, may be with this or other plasmoid I may develop.
The svg images for weather conditions are taken from kde-look. The credit goes to the original artist, painkiller10. I have considered only a number of weather conditions, so If you see a question mark image as the weather condition, let me know which condition it is, so I can update the code to consider it.
Please feel free to report any bugs or suggestions for improvement. I am sure there is a big room of improvement from code point of view as well as functionality. I am also open for changing the layout or changing the information displayed if someone comes with a better suggestion than the current one.
Some more screen shots:
Looks almost like conky with the seamless theme.
With settings dialog box
A script to display weather forecast for conky
Conky is undoubtedly the most configurable, versatile and amazing program I have ever come across. With very little effort you can get a very sleek looking desktop. I have seen people using it to display all kinds of information under the sky. Although, it can only display pure text, there is a possibility to use different symbolic fonts to display text based images. Moreover, it is also very efficient program. Its own footprint is very small compared to most of the gadget frameworks like adesklets, gDesklets and of course plasma. Configuration is also relatively easy. The best way is to copy configuration file from some one else and keep on changing it until you get what you want. Another application worth mentioning here is dzen2. Dzen2 has ability to render any text graphically, although it lacks the built in variables of conky. In archlinux there is an application package called conky-cli which is a stripped down version of conky without X11 dependency. A combination of conky-cli and dzen2 is then used to make taskbars for minimalistic desktops like xmonad, wmii, dwm etc. Personally, I haven’t tried this combination yet.
Ubuntu and Archlinux forums have dedicated threads with conky screen shots and config files. I came across many screen shots with weather information, forecast and small symbols with weather conditions. Most of them were using a perl script (for which I cannot find the link now) to fetch, parse and show the weather information from weather.com. The weather symbols were ttf fonts. I didn’t want to take the script one-to-one and perl is anyway too cryptic for me to decipher. I decided to take the concept and develop something similar on my own.
So I created the google weather script. It is a simple bash script to fetch the xml file using google weather api, I changed the source because although weather.com was providing good information, they were changing the format of the request too often, their terms and conditions of usage were also not very comprehensible for me. Then I use different style-sheets to process the xml response and show different information depending on the argument passed to the bash script. I also use the weather.ttf fonts to render the symbols for different weather conditions. For transforming xml, I use the xsltproc tool.
Here is the conky running under kde4 desktop. With different desktop environments conky needs to be adjusted a bit. Another weakness of conky in integrating external scripts is that the output must be pre-formatted before supplying it to conky. Conky just takes the text and renders it. In principle any executable can be called from conky to display its output.
Conky has many built-in variables for displaying common system parameters which are well documented on the official documentation page. Besides the common parameters like cpu / memory usage, uptime, upload-download speed, top 3 cpu using processes and top 3 memory using processes, the screen shot on the left also displays the dictionry.com word of the day rss feed, which I find extremely useful. It also uses a similar script and xslt transformation. There is also a built-in rss feed processor in conky.
I use mpd for playing music. There is also built-in mpd support in conky and can be used to display information about current song being played. If you want to show different information at different places on the desktop, it is also possible to have multiple instances of conky running at the same time with different configuration files.
As evident in the screen shot it is difficult to adjust the spacing of the weather output due to mixing of different types and sizes of fonts. My script only considers some frequent weather conditions, but it can easily adapted to support many different weather conditions. The spacing must be adjusted for individual setup by editing the line no. 16 in the file fcConditions.xslt
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0" >
<xsl:include href="conditionsInclude.xslt"/>
<xsl:output method="text" disable-output-escaping="yes" encoding="utf-8"/>
<xsl:template match="xml_api_reply">
<xsl:apply-templates select="weather"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="weather">
<xsl:for-each select="forecast_conditions[position() >= 2]">
<xsl:call-template name="get-condition-symbol">
<xsl:with-param name="condition">
<xsl:value-of select="condition/@data"/>
</xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
<xsl:if test="position() != 3">
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
I have hard-coded the update interval to 1 hour. This can also be changed very easily to the required value by changing the value of the update variable in the weather.sh file.
# don't get the file if created within an hour update=3600
I use mainly following configurations for conky.
I have released the script with GPL V3 license, so feel free to use it if you like it. Please comment about any bug reports, improvements, questions or suggestions.
Created a repository with github for storing / sharing config files
I noticed that since long time dotfiles.org website which I used to store and share my config files was unreachable. So I created a repository with github. It is called dotfiles. I will update all the links pointing to my configs files to the new location. If you still notice some old links please drop a comment.
Maven quirk ( archetype-j2ee-simple )
Update:
The issue has been fixed. There were two points.
1. I was using the wrong (deprecated) goal archetype:create instead of archetype:generate.
2. With the plugin archetype-j2ee-simple there is a bug which is already reported here.
I got my answer from Antony Stubbs on Stackoverflow.
At last I also decided to join the maven[1] bandwagon, I will start using maven for managing my projects. Convention over configuration sounds indeed a nice idea. When I first heard about maven I didn’t have a good “feeling” about it, may be because I was too comfortable with ant and believe to be able to achieve any task with it. But now after reading some documentation and articles about maven, I came to realise it is completely new paradigm than ant. In my opinion the best aspect of maven is that you always have the big picture of your project in mind instead of a small task or operation to be done. I started liking maven and also started learning it. For reference I have started following Maven: The Definitive Guide[2]. Another great advantage could be that if you know maven and a join a new team which also uses maven for project management, you don’t have to spend hours or may be days trying to figure out the structure of their project and being able to build it.
Although I started liking maven, sometimes it feels like a strange tool, where you have to configure a lot to achieve your goal. if you want some custom stuff in your project. I also find it annoying that by default the compiler-plugin assumes you want to build for java 1.4 or java 1.3. Moreover, because there are always so called sensible or obvious defaults assumed, in maven world, not all the obvious defaults are obvious to you and you have to know the documentation well to be able to know what those defaults are. and how you can achieve something different. It feels somewhat like javadocs, until you get used to the apis you need frequently, you have to rely on auto-completion of your IDE or have the javadoc always open. There is no wonder that the second part of the book, I mentioned contains only the maven reference.
But, yes, I am here to talk about the quirk of maven which I encountered during my learning process. I am just a maven beginner, so may be this is normal behavior, but I don’t think so.
So, while starting to learn maven, I started with a contrived JavaEE application (brave huh), which is taken as example in the very good book EJB 3 in Action[3]. I searched the net and found out about the maven archetype j2ee-simple here. I used following commandline to generate the stubs of a simple JavaEE project, actually I was interested in the standard directory structure.
mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=com.hardik -DartifactId=ActionBazaar -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-j2ee-simple
The project was created perfectly, but by default it was not compiling. When I executed mvn intall I had following errors.
$ mvn install [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] FATAL ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project's POM). Project ID: unknown Reason: Could not find the model file '/home/hardik/projects/ActionBazaar/site'. for project unknown [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Trace org.apache.maven.reactor.MavenExecutionException: Could not find the model file '/home/hardik/projects/ActionBazaar/site'. for project unknown at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProjects(DefaultMaven.java:432) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:300) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:137) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:362) at org.apache.maven.cli.compat.CompatibleMain.main(CompatibleMain.java:41) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375) Caused by: org.apache.maven.project.ProjectBuildingException: Could not find the model file '/home/hardik/projects/ActionBazaar/site'. for project unknown at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.readModel(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1575) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildFromSourceFileInternal(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:506) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.build(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:200) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProject(DefaultMaven.java:632) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.collectProjects(DefaultMaven.java:515) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.collectProjects(DefaultMaven.java:588) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProjects(DefaultMaven.java:419) ... 12 more Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/hardik/projects/ActionBazaar/site (No such file or directory) at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method) at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:106) at hidden.org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.XmlReader.<init>(XmlReader.java:124) at hidden.org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.XmlStreamReader.<init>(XmlStreamReader.java:67) at hidden.org.codehaus.plexus.util.ReaderFactory.newXmlReader(ReaderFactory.java:118) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.readModel(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1570) ... 18 more [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: < 1 second [INFO] Finished at: Thu Jul 09 18:44:31 CEST 2009 [INFO] Final Memory: 1M/4M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
It is talking about some model file for the site module. The site module is generally the “website” of your project that maven generates just by looking at your pom.xml file. I removed the site module from the module list of the pom file and it started working. But I still wonder why the default project structure doesn’t build. I am sure this is incorrect behavior.
If someone has had the same problem, and was able to fix, please let me know.
References:
[INFO] Scanning for projects…
[INFO] ————————————————————————
[ERROR] FATAL ERROR
[INFO] ————————————————————————
[INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project’s POM).Project ID: unknown
Reason: Could not find the model file ‘/home/hardik/projects/ActionBazaar/site’. for project unknown
[INFO] ————————————————————————
[INFO] Trace
org.apache.maven.reactor.MavenExecutionException: Could not find the model file ‘/home/hardik/projects/ActionBazaar/site’. for project unknown
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProjects(DefaultMaven.java:432)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:300)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:137)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:362)
at org.apache.maven.cli.compat.CompatibleMain.main(CompatibleMain.java:41)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.project.ProjectBuildingException: Could not find the model file ‘/home/hardik/projects/ActionBazaar/site’. for project unknown
at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.readModel(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1575)
at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildFromSourceFileInternal(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:506)
at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.build(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:200)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProject(DefaultMaven.java:632)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.collectProjects(DefaultMaven.java:515)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.collectProjects(DefaultMaven.java:588)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProjects(DefaultMaven.java:419)
… 12 more
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/hardik/projects/ActionBazaar/site (No such file or directory)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:106)
at hidden.org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.XmlReader.<init>(XmlReader.java:124)
at hidden.org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.XmlStreamReader.<init>(XmlStreamReader.java:67)
at hidden.org.codehaus.plexus.util.ReaderFactory.newXmlReader(ReaderFactory.java:118)
at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.readModel(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1570)
… 18 more
[INFO] ————————————————————————
[INFO] Total time: < 1 second
[INFO] Finished at: Thu Jul 09 18:44:31 CEST 2009
[INFO] Final Memory: 1M/4M
[INFO] ————————————————————————
Glassfish plugin on Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo)
Eclipse 3.5 also called Galileo is out. I tried to install the glassfish application server plugin with the standard method described here, but it failed with the following error message
session context was:(profile=epp.package.jee, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.engine.phases.Collect, operand=, action=). No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,com.sun.enterprise.jst.server.sunappsrv,1.0.28 No repository found containing: org.eclipse.update.feature,com.sun.enterprise.jst.server.sunappsrv.feature,1.0.28
After searching a lot I found a way to install it using the update site http://ajax.dev.java.net/eclipse, like any other plugin. This worked well.
May be the problem is temporary and after sometime the standard way will also start working.
Arch Linux recovery
Since some time, I have been experimenting with archlinux[1] as guest in VirtualBox. Due to some unknown reasons the VirtualBox[2] hanged during package upgrade on the arch setup (pacman -Syyu). I had no other choice than to kill the VirutulBox process in the middle. I think it happened when the packages were being configured. After that when I rebooted the guest OS, it gave me the “ramfs$” prompt and refused to mount any disks. There were some errors stating the uuids of the disks, but for me the errors were beyond comprehension. Being a beginner in archlinux usage, I didn’t know how to recover from this situation.
Purely instinctively, I downloaded the latest iso of archlinux and mounted it as cd drive on the virtual machine and booted the virtual machine from that iso. I logged in as root and mounted the corrupted archlinux drives / and /home and chrooted to my installation root. After chrooting, I started upgrading the system with pacman as usual. Here the summary of the commands I used almost in the same order.
# mount /dev/sda1 /media/oldroot (of course I had to create the directory under /media) # mount /dev/sda2 /media/oldhome # chroot /media/oldroot # pacman -Syyu
The upgrade went fine and after rebooting I got the arch setup exactly how I left it. I don’t know if this recovery was method was a fluke or recommended way to recover arch, but it worked for me. I would definitely like to know what could have happened and the correct procedure to recover from such cases. Although, it was a virual machine and there was no data at risk, It would have taken a lot of time and effort to get the same archlinux setup which I had. I must say chroot is an amazing tool.
References:
Successfully upgraded sidux with KDE4 and Xserver-Xorg
Last week, I could successfully upgrade(dist-upgrade in debian terms) sidux.
This is very significant, because I have been using sidux since its 2007-01 version and I have never reinstalled the system. The last week’s upgrade brought in new KDE 4 and also Xserver-Xorg.
The upgrade went smooth with the help of the how-to posted by the sidux team. Kudos to them.
Because of the new X-server upgrade, I had problems with tapping of my synaptics touchpad on my dell inspiron. Here is a general how-to posted on sidux site, which may apply to other systems with some changes.
There was only a small issue with kmix which showed the wrong channel as default one, this is not at all a big deal considering the critical nature of the upgrade. I may discover some other minor issues in the course of time, but they will surely be fixed.
I use openbox as my main WM (Window Manager), but I also keep Kde installed as fallback DE (Desktop Environment) and to be honest, I was also curious about how the new Kde will be. As an eternal WM hopper I am constantly looking for something new 
.
Such upgrades are only possible with rolling distributions like debian and hard work by the sidux team to integrate the changes as smoothly as possible. This cannot even be imagined with release based operating systems or linux distributions.
Quest for Window Manager: Openbox
Although, I loved using Fluxbox, I started feeling it a bit monotonous and limiting in configuration options. Then I came to know about Openbox. Openbox is also a *box style window manager which is very lightweight and highly configurable. The website also claims it to be more compliant with the freedesktop.org standards. LXDE is actually openbox as window manager with a fixed set of accompanying programs. Openbox can integrate very well with KDE or GNOME, actually in Debian if you install openbox, you will automatically have a choice of booting into “openbox-kde” , “openbox-gnome” or openbox session. I generally prefer the pure openbox.
The most apparent difference a fluxbox user will notice while starting the default configuration of Openbox will be that the good old taskbar generally also containing a clock and a systemtray is gone. This doesn’t mean that you cannot use any taskbar with openbox, but by default there is none. This gives the user freedom of using any separate taskbar program ( e.g. fbpanel, pypanel, tint2 just to name a few) that suits her. And in case you are happy with the ALT+TAB menu, you don’t have to use any taskbar or panel. As can be seen in the screenshot, I use tint2 as taskbar. Since we don’t have any systemtray by default, there are some programs like stalonetray, trayer etc which can be used. That of course if you want to use any.
Instead of being able to do everything under the sun, openbox does the only one task i.e. managing the windows and It does it well. In my opinion this is consistent with the philosophy of Unix commands which perform a very small task and they do it well. Another thing which I like as a programmer is that the configuration file is xml based. This is of course a negative point for others who don’t find xml “human readable”. In fact I have seen many excellent looking and extremely geeky desktops which are configured by people having very little or no programming experience. So I think it is not at all required to be a programmer to be able to tailor your desktop to your needs. It is enough just to have basic command-line skills, patience to read the documentation and spare hours in the night for tinkering.
As a drawback the first thing comes into my mind is that unlike fluxbox, the themes don’t include the panel or the taskbar. In fluxbox if you decide to change the theme the fbpanel is included in the theme configuration and automatically adapts to the new colors and fonts. As the panel is not part of openbox, the theme configuration obviously doesn’t include it so in case you are using a standalone panel, you may have to change its configuration to match the openbox theme. This I think is not a problem for people who don’t use any panel or intentionally want the granularity of configuration.
I would not discuss the details of installation, configuration and customization here because I don’t want to document again what is already well documented. Openbox wiki on its home page has a very nice documentation. On ubuntu forums, I found an extensive installation and configuration guide for openbox here, which is more or less the second official guide.
Here are my two sidux desktops running openbox with conky, adesklets, tint2, visibility, trayer, urxvt etc..
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Here are the links to my openbox, tint2 and visibility configuration files.
| Main config file: | ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml |
| Startup file: | ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh |
| Menu file: | ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml |
| Tint2 config: | ~/.config/tint2/tint2rc |
| visibility config: | ~/.config/visibility/config |
Eclipse: Timeout configuration of server (jboss)
I configured JBOSS 5 Application Server with Eclipse 3.4. The configuration was successful. When I tried to start it though, the start up failed with the error message that it had timed out, the timeout was set to 50 seconds. It is amazing that JBOSS takes more than a minute to start up.
After some searching, I came to know that in Eclipse 3.4 the server timeouts can be configured per individual servers. Opening the server with double clicking in the server view, will list the timeout option and can be set in seconds. Here the screen-shot.
