YarcRamble

It’s not very impressive. With Netbeans 6.1 I had some correspondence with SUN since I couldn’t get the “Getting Started with RESTful Web Services” tutorial to work (cf. previous blog entry).

Neither in Windows XP nor in Ubuntu 8.04 did I get it to work.

Now, with Netbeans 6.5 I give it a final try. [...]

I don’t like the way you have to ‘click’ on an (internal) ntfs drive in nautilus before you may access it. And I’d like to rename the drive. So one does;

1. add a line to /etc/fstab:

UUID=568450EF8450D2DB /mnt/windows ntfs [...]

I can’t get the simplest of the NetBeans RESTful tutorials to work.

I’ve tried to do it faithfully a number of times but my Glassfish serverconsistently comes up with (from the server.log)|java.lang.InstantiationException:com.sun.jersey.impl.provider.entity.XMLRootElementProvider

I.e. it builds nicely, the JavaDB is happy but at deployment the Glassfish server fails.I’ve cleaned out every deployed entity (.wars and the like) [...]

As a reminder, when you start a standalone Glassfish the admin console runs on port 4848. But, if you use the built-in Glassfish that comes with the Netbeans bundle, then it runs on port 5162.

Prediction markets for software estimation seems to be hot. The idea that you put your money where your mouth is, is in general an appealing idea to improve estimation. Whether it works in practice is another matter.

In this (Norwegian) talk from JavaZone one gets a glimpse of the underlying mechanisms (particularly around the 10. [...]

Thanks to http://softwarex-nz.blogspot.com/2008/01/stop-vistas-update-auto-reboot.html for this arcane tip;

“Go to the start menu, and in the search type “gpedit.msc” Then hit enter. The Group Policy Object Editor should appear.

Navigate to “Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Update“

In the list on the right look for the following setting: “No auto-restart [...]