I'd like to share some of my thoughts about my approach to solve the Gilded Rose Refactoring Kata by Emily Bache. If you don't know this kata, read the description for a better understanding. I have published my whole solution on GitHub . I tried to make a commit after every step, so you can keep track of my steps in …

Groovy is a scripting language, so it is possible to run Groovy code without compiling to Java byte code. The necessary condition is that Groovy is installed on your machine. Then, running a Groovy script in a shell looks like the following line. 1groovy TestScript.groovy Now, something is wrong with the script, only …

A new version of this blog post is published under the title "Generate P2 Repository From Maven Artifacts in 2017" Motivation If you use Maven Tycho to build your Eclipse RCP application, you can use Maven dependencies as you know it from Maven (for more information see [1]). I notice that Tycho takes many …

Whensoever, you call, for example, java -cp ../lib/hsqldb.jar org.hsqldb.Server --props ../bin/config/server.properties following exception is thrown: 1[Server@e0e1c6]: [Thread[main,5,main]]: checkRunning(false) entered 2[Server@e0e1c6]: [Thread[main,5,main]]: checkRunning(false) exited 3[Server@e0e1c6]: …