My latest copyright forfeit to DevX is Eclipse and Subversion: Project Source Control From Within the IDE
Archive for the ‘Tools’ Category
Everything Your Mother Didn’t Tell You About SVN and Eclipse
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011Perpetuating Propagation Perplexity
Thursday, May 12th, 2011The WLP 10.3.2 documentation: Propagation Inventory Compatibility states
WebLogic Portal inventories saved with WebLogic Portal 8.1 or 9.2 cannot be used with WebLogic Portal 10.3.2 propagation tools.
While this implies that a 10.2 inventory can be used, it does not specifically say so. This came up for someone I know who then asked support if one could propagate from a 10.2 environment to a 10.3.2 environment since they wanted to build out a new, clean infrastructure for their upgraded WLP application rather than running an upgrade in the old production environment. The response was quick and short: “No”.
So, being the way I am, I tried it anyway. Works fine. Granted, there are probably many legitimate reasons for not doing this, and I would never suggest it for on-going operations, but as a one-shot move from an existing environment to a new environment it is definitely worth a test run before changing your upgrade strategy.
How to Check Your Google Listings
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010SVN Subversive Plugin For WebLogic Workshop 10.2
Saturday, December 19th, 2009The usual URL at http://download.eclipse.org/technology/subversive/0.7/update-site/ doesn’t work for Workshop for some reason. This URL does: http://www.polarion.org/projects/subversive/download/1.1/update-site/
Oracle JDeveloper 11g: RTFM
Friday, June 19th, 2009After so many years of finding better answers through Google or Dev2Dev (moment of silence), I rarely use the help menu of applications anymore. Yesterday I was having trouble with one of the JDeveloper wizards. I searched Google, I searched OTN, I posted to discussion lists. No answer. Desperate to get past this issue, I opened the Help menu. I still didn’t find what I was looking for (I solved that by experimentation and guess work), but I did find all of the training material listed right there.
This would have saved me days of navigating around OTN, where I did not find the training I needed that was right in the IDE all the time.
Interesting lesson learned, and the first application of the alternative definition of RTFM I read recently: Read The Fancy Manual