Shambling Towards Perfection

I meant to mention this yesterday in one of my posts but forgot. I had originally downloaded jars for both slf4j and JCL , plus the jar that connects the two . I know I didn't do this for funsies; it was purely to get my code to compile so I could use the export-to-XML feature of DBUnit . However, I stumbled across a page that listed the dependencies of DBUnit and it didn't include JCL, just slf4j. I had updated all my jars so I figured maybe things had changed and removed the connector jar and the JCL jar... And poof, everything still compiled! Maybe I was somehow confused before (of followed bad advice on a blog/Stackoverflow post) and downloaded things unnecessarily, or maybe they've changed things in a more recent release, but either way I don't have to use both slf4j and JCL. Which is great, because when I tried to use them both the names of classes and the line numbers that were doing the logging got lost. Anyhow I now have things working very well with just s...

So apparently slf4j is a logging abstraction framework meant to let you use the actual logging implementation of your choice. So slf4j lets you use Jakarta Commons Logging (and this is what DBUnit does), which is ALSO a logging abstraction framework meant to let you use the actual logging implementation of your choice. So I STILL need yet another library in order to get logging to files instead of to System.err. I just... For crying out loud. Fine then. I just downloaded log4j . Are you finally satisfied, logging libraries??? Argh. :(

I met with my adviser for the first time last Wednesday, and we decided our next meeting would be September 24 and then we'll meet every two weeks thereafter. Since the 24th would fall in the middle of a sprint I decided to extend the first one to end this Saturday, the 29th (I was also under the weather several days last week, so it was a good move all around). On the 30th I'll upload all my code to the version control system my prof has set up (svn) and configure everything so that it will run on the department servers. I'll be demoing my latest work at every meeting, so every other Sunday will be configuration day. I realize continuous builds on the department machines would be better but it's not exactly practical, so I'm settling for continuous builds on my home machine. Since my last post I have successfully configured Tomcat to use SSL and jbcrypt . The latter involved writing a custom realm but turned out to be quite trivial; I simply extended JDBCRealm ...