Utah Code Camp 2009

I was a keynote speaker at the 2009 Utah Code Camp (http://utcodecamp.com/speakers/)
I wanted to post my source code, and Slide Deck below.
Source Code (http://baselogic.com/code/ucc2009/webapp.zip)
Slide Deck PPT (http://baselogic.com/code/ucc2009/ucc.ppt)
I will be converting this slide deck into a blog as soon as I have time to do so. Stay tuned….

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Testing ActiveMQ VirtualTopic’s using Camel and JUnit

I have started to create a server Process that sends a status update message that is consumed by remote clients via an activeMQ VirtualTopic.
* note in the code examples, many comments and log statements have been removed for clarity here, but may bee seen in the log stack trace sections.
What I want to be able [...]

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SiteToolException: ArtifactNotFoundException: The skin does not exist

I have run into this error many times in the past, and have not seen any blogs on this issue, so I wanted to create a better blog with a solution to the issue.
The issue starts with trying to create site documentation using mvn site:site that results in an
ArtifactNotFoundException being thrown during the site generation [...]

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Deployment issues with Spring AOP and Weblogic 10.3

I have been working on a Hibernate /  Spring Data Access Component for a multi-module project.
The testing has all been done with JUnit and DBUnit tests, then run inside an embedded Jetty web container.
The details of this blog focus on the issue with deploying this WAR to Weblogic 10.3 after completing extensive unit and Selenium [...]

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How to convince developers and management to use JUnit testing

I am currently on a project that provides configuration management support for >350 production application. Many are internal, but there are many dozens of them that are client facing.
The Issues
One project in particular, has been especially problematic for everyone involved. The project has 155 Java files that makes up the Enterprise Web Service, data processing [...]

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