Maven Surefire for Integration Tests in JUnit

It is quite convenient to use maven-surefire-plugin to run tests using Maven. It enables generating reports in txt, XML as well as HTML. By default surefire tests are executed in the test phase of Maven build lifecycle. Therefore it enables to run unit tests, but not integration tests which should be executed after package phase.

It is just a matter of configuring the surefire plugin, in order to run integration tests. The configuration given below can be used to change the phase of the surefire plugin.

<plugin>
<groupid>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupid>
<artifactid>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactid>
<configuration>
<!-- skip unit tests in the test phase, since it is required to run integration tests -->
<skip>true</skip>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>surefire-it</id>
<phase>integration-test</phase>
<configuration>
<skip>false</skip>
<!--forkMode>pertest</forkMode-->
<argline>-enableassertions</argline>
<testfailureignore>true</testfailureignore>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>test</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<plugin>

In addition, we need to add the junit dependancy to the pom's dependancy list. This should be added in a manner that it resolves only for the testing.

<dependencies&
...

<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

</dependencies>

The version may change depending on your requirements.

Installing Amarok in Ubuntu 9.04

There are problems in Amarok 2.0 in Ubuntu :(
Only work around is to use Amarok version 1.4

Therefore,

sudo apt-get install amarok

does not work. Instead use

sudo apt-get install amarok14

For further details refer - http://nomad.ca/blog/2009/apr/3/amarok-14-jaunty-ubuntu-904/

SVG string inline with HTML

Have you ever wondered how to display the SVG string that you have generated from your program, inline with HTML. I did try this and searched for a lot, but could not find a proper solution. Instead of that, I was redirected to some JavaScript libraries which are used to generate SVG.

If I clearly mention the problem again; There is a SVG as a string, if it is included in a div element it will not be displayed. But if it is saved in a file with the extension ".svg" and open it with FireFox browser, it is displayed correctly.

If the above paragraph mentions the problem you got, then this is the exact place where you get the exact solution :D

Say, there is a div element with the id "svg", then the following JavaScript function can be used to obtain your objective.

drawSVG = function(svgStr) {
var parser = new DOMParser();
var dom = parser.parseFromString(svgStr, "text/xml");
document.getElementById('svg').appendChild(dom.documentElement);
}

It is very simple solution, but it took sometime to reach for the solution.

Apache Batik can be used to generate SVG

Deploy Intalio Tempo in Apache Tomcat 5

Now you can try WSO2 BPS 2.0.0 which offers you to deploy human tasks written in WS-HumaTasks standard as well as Business  Processes written in WS-BPEL standard. You can also integrate human tasks within the business  processes according to WS-BPEL4People standard. You can start the server as a stand-alone server, so that no need to go through hard configuration stuff. WSO2 BPS 2.0.0 is open source product. Check release note. 

Recently, I tried to deploy Intalio Tempo in standalone Apache Tomcat 5.5.xx. Tempo provides a ruby build script (tempo_builder.rb) to provide a Tempo integrated in to a Apache Tomcat server. But, what I required was different scenario. I needed to deploy Tempo in my own Tomcat server.

It took few days for me to deploy Tempo in a standalone Tomcat server. Therefore, I thought of sharing the experience I gained, in-order to minimise the pain of people who are in need of deploying Tempo in Tomcat.

Please note well, this document may not be the best way to deploy Tempo in Tomcat. Therefore, please let me know, if you got to know a better way.

First of all, make sure that all the required software are properly installed. Refer INSTALL.txt to find the required software. If you intend to build Apache ODE, then you have to aware about the Buildr and the Java version. In case if you need help on this, refer this post. Make sure that you install the Buildr version 1.3.3 instead of 1.3.2 to support both ODE and Tempo.

checkout the source of Tempo

git clone git://github.com/intalio/tempo.git

Build the Tempo (according to the building instructions of Tempo )

buildr package

In case, if you have installed Buildr in both Ruby and jRuby, make sure to prefix jruby -S or ruby -S to select between the installed Buildrs.

Build the Tempo (to build the dependency jars, BPEL processes and axis2 services)

run the script TEMPO_CHECKOUT/rsc/scripts/tempo_builder.rb

refer INSTALL.txt for further details

From this onwards:
TEMPO_TOMCAT refers to the Tomcat directory created by the tempo_builder.rb script.
TOMCAT_HOME refers to the standalone Tomcat server in which Tempo should be deployed.

Copy the following
TEMPO_TOMCAT/bin/setenv.sh to TOMCAT_HOME/bin
TEMPO_TOMCAT/var to TOMCAT_HOME/

Edit TOMCAT_HOME/conf/context.xml and add the following in to the <context> element

<resourcelink global="jdbc/BPMSDB" name="jdbc/BPMSDB" type="javax.sql.DataSource"/>
<resourcelink global="DeployRegistry" name="registry/DeployRegistry" type="org.intalio.deploy.registry.Registry"/>
<transaction factory="">TomcatGeronimoTxFactory" />

Edit TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml and add the following to the <globalnamingresources> element

<resource name="jdbc/BPMSDB" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource" maxactive="100" maxidle="30" maxwait="10000" username="root" password="password" driverclassname="jdbc.Driver" url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/bpms?relaxAutoCommit=true"/>
<resource name="registry/DeployRegistry" auth="Container" type="registry.Registry" factory="org.intalio.deploy.registry.RegistryObjectFactory" />

Edit TOMCAT_HOME/conf/web.xml and add the following to the element <web-app>

<resource-ref>
<res-ref-name>jdbc/BPMSDB</res-ref-name>
<res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
<res-auth>Container</res-auth>
<res-sharing-scope>Shareable</res-sharing-scope>
</resource-ref>

Install MySQL Server and create the database "bpms" and create the schema as in TEMPO_TOMCAT/bpms.sql

create database bpms;
use bpms;
source TEMPO_HOME/bpms.sql;

Copy the MySQL connector jar to TOMCAT_HOME/common/lib

Copy the additional jars in the TEMPO_TOMCAT/common/lib to the TOMCAT_HOME/common/lib

deploy-registry-1.0.3.jar
slf4j-api-1.4.3.jar
slf4j-log4j12-1.4.3.jar
log4j-1.2.15.jar

Deploy Axis2 (1.4.1) and ODE (1.3.2) in your standalone Tomcat Server

Deploy the following web services which are in the TEMPO_CHECKOUT's respective target directories, in Axis2.

tempo-tas-service-5.x.x.x.aar
tempo-tms-service-5.x.x.x.aar

Also deploy the following web services which can be found in TEMPO_TOMCAT/webapps/axis2/WEB-INF/

servicesdeploy-ws-service-1.0.3.aar
security-ws-service-1.0.1.aar

Copy the following jars in TEMPO_TOMCAT/webapps/ode/WEB-INF/lib to the TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/ode/WEB-INF/lib

deploy-api-1.0.3.jar
ode-ext-deploy-1.0.0.jar
tempo-processes-xpath-extensions-6.0.6.jar

Then deploy the following .war files that can be found in respective target directories of TEMPO_CHECKOUT directory.

fds.war
ui-fw.war
wds.war

Then Deploy the xFormsManager.war. It is possible to build it from the source (git clone git://http://github.com/intalio/xforms-manager.git) or download the war file

Now you are ready to use Tempo in your Tomcat server. Please feel free to point out the mistakes in this post as well as your problems regarding deployment.

References:
Tempo-div thread - Is it possible to deploy tempo on tomcat 5.5 and use its runtime
Tempo Installation Guide - INSTALL.txt
Tempo Building Guide - Building
Install Buildr - Buildr for ODE and Tempo
Tempo-div thread which I used to get help - Problem on deploying fds & ui-fw

Building Apache ODE

I found it little bit hard to build Apache ODE for the first time. I followed the steps in the Building ODE guide as it is. But I was not able to build the ODE source. The appeared error was

Permission denied - Permission denied - /tmp/axis2-adb-1.4.1.jar.16179.53314 or /home/.../.m2/repository/org/apache/axis2/axis2-adb/1.4.1/axis2-adb-1.4.1.jar
Buildr aborted!
Failed to download org.apache.axis2:axis2-adb:jar:1.4.1, tried the following repositories:
http://pxe.intalio.org/public/maven2/
http://people.apache.org/repo/m2-incubating-repository/
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/
http://people.apache.org/repo/m2-snapshot-repository/
http://download.java.net/maven/2/
http://ws.zones.apache.org/repository2/

(Note well, this error only appears, if you build the ODE for the first time or build it with a cleaned repository.)

Therefore, I tried my best to grant the permission to the relevant directories, but, it did not help. I tried to build it as a super user, then it worked. But, it will not help because all the dependencies are copied to the root's .m2 repository.

Actually there was not a single clue to find the fault. After trying out several tests, I was able to figure out that the root cause is the version of the Apache Buildr. Let me explain in detail, how I installed Buildr.

Installing Apache Buildr in jRuby
First of all I downloaded the jRuby 1.2.0. After following the steps in the Guide, I use the following command to install Apache Buildr in jRuby.

jruby -S gem install buildr

The above command installed the Buildr version 1.3.4 which caused me immense trouble. To solve the problem, I uninstalled the Buildr version 1.3.4 using the command:

jruby -S gem uninstall buildr -v 1.3.4

Then re-installed the older version 1.3.2 again, which relieved me a lot. I still could not figure out the exact wrong with the Buildr version 1.3.4, even though, I posted about the problem in the Buildr dev mailing list. Finally I made my mind by assuming it was a bug in Buildr version 1.3.4. This is a serious because the Buildr version 1.3.4 is not backword compatible :(

There is another important fact about installing Buildr in jRuby instead of Ruby. Quoting Apache ODE Building Guide,

Note that for now, even though ODE can run on JDK 1.6.x, building ODE only works with JDK 1.5.x. So before building, make sure you JAVA_HOME points to a JDK 1.5.x installation

The above statement valid only when using Buildr which installed in Ruby. If You installed the Buildr in jRuby, JDK 1.6.x can be used to build ODE.

Happy ODEing...

Sign in to yahoo by PIDGIN

These days Pidgin does not allow to connect to yahoo. It is due to some maintenance or upgrade of their servers. This is a really annoying experience to pidgin-yahoo users. The simple solution is to upgrade the Pidgin version to 2.5.7 (newest). the instructions are given in the pidgin site.

Disk Partition strategy for Ubuntu

A newie-bee to Ubuntu may tend to install it in to a single partion ("/"). But it is always advisable to create few more partitions in order make our lives easier, when it is required to re-install Ubuntu as well as when you required to retain the user accounts, their configuration and the softwares insatalled.
In order to achive this, it is required to create atleast another home partition ("/home"). According to the interest, a "/opt" partion can be created in order to install softwares.
Say, You have to re-install Ubuntu due to a inevitable reason, then it is only require to format the root ("/") partion only, other partions can be left intact. You required to create the same user accounts to activate the old user accounts.
In this way, it is possible to re-install Ubuntu without wasting much to configure it again.