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New Fedora 21 release

Release Notes: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/21/html/Release_Notes/

Download: https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/

Some changes/improvements I found interesting:

GNOME 3.14
Update GNOME to the latest upstream release, 3.14

GCC49
Switch GCC in Fedora 21 to 4.9.x, rebuild all packages with it.

Headless Java
Server installations of Fedora should usually not pull in packages related to X system or sound subsystem. For this reason part of OpenJDK package has been split into headless subpackage which has smaller dependency chain. Fedora packages should be migrated to require java-headless instead of full java package when appropriate

Java 8
Make Java 8 (provided by OpenJDK 8 which is java-1.8.0-openjdk) the default Java runtime. The current default Java runtime (Java 7, provided by OpenJDK 7, java-1.7.0-openjdk) will be obsoleted and removed.

JLV v.1.3.3 has been released

Update site: https://github.com/rdiachenko/jlv/raw/repo/eclipse

Or Eclipse Marketplace: http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/jlv

Release notes:

• fixed problems with hanging on Windows OS
• fixed null pointer exceptions related to loading and releasing resources
• server part was improved
• a new resource manager was provided

The main project's page: https://github.com/rdiachenko/jlv#information

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException while importing guava sources into Eclipse

Today I encountered a problem with importing guava sources into Eclipse.

Steps to reproduce:

0. Checkout guava sources
1. Import project into Eclipse as "Existing Maven Projects"

Detected:

Screen + Vim + Scala (with dynamic compilation of sources)

What we will have at the end of this post:

TableViewer.refresh(true, false) behaves as TableViewer.refresh(true, true)

The problem I met is that refresh(true, false) method of org.eclipse.jface.viewers.TableViewer class behaves as refresh(true, true) on Linux platforms.

I found an opened bug for this case: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=414455 but the current SWT 4.3 stable version doesn't contain the fix.

To overcome this problem temporary (until SWT 4.4 is released) I used "SWT.MULTI" style bit during TableViewer creation.

I played with different styles, but it is the only way to avoid the problem. "SWT.NONE" didn't help as well because of the logic inside org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Tablet constructor which overwrites "style" parameter:

Eclipse 4.3: No schema found for the extension point

PROBLEM: 

No schema found for the extension point. The warning occurred in "Extensions" tab of plugin.xml file. Look at the following screenshot:

Eclipse: Internal browser is not available: No more handles [Unknown Mozilla path (MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME not set)]

PROBLEM: I've got the following error message when was configuring Eclipse after installing a new Fedora 19:

Error
Unhandled event loop exception
org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: No more handles [Unknown Mozilla path (MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME not set)]
at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:4423)
at org.eclipse.swt.browser.Mozilla.initMozilla(Mozilla.java:1993)
at org.eclipse.swt.browser.Mozilla.create(Mozilla.java:701)
at org.eclipse.swt.browser.Browser.<init>(Browser.java:99)

SOLUTION: The solution was just install missed lib and restart Eclipse:

1. $ sudo yum install libwebkitgtk*
2. Restart Eclipse

Fedora 19 (64-bit) - Installation notes

1. Install Chrome

$ sudo nano /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo

[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome - 64-bit
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

$ sudo yum install google-chrome-stable

2. Install gnome-tweeak-tool and customize it

$ sudo yum install gnome-tweak-tool

To run it, press Alt+F2 and type in 'gnome-tweak-tool'. Simple selecting the options performs the changes.

3. Add "Open Terminal" to Gnome Context Menu

$ sudo yum install nautilus-open-terminal

4. Install rpmFusion reposetory

$ sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

FreeMarker: An open alternative to JSP

Today I read a good article about FreeMarker - an alternative to JSP: http://www.javaworld.com/jw-01-2001/jw-0119-freemarker.html?page=1

Some notes about performance which I were looking for:

- Much like JSP, FreeMarker compiles templates to improve runtime performance. Those templates are stored in memory in a format that leaves placeholders for dynamic data. The controller fills those placeholders with dynamic data from the model. For this purpose, the controller must have access to both the model and the view. Once the dynamic data is retrieved from the model, the controller will print the template to a given output stream.

- Once templates are compiled, you can process them in parallel, leading to a significant performance boost.

- For anything other than the most trivial projects, FreeMarker provides a TemplateCache interface, implementations of which act as a repository for precompiled templates.

- An additional feature of TemplateCache objects is that they automatically reload templates when the template source file has changed. That relieves you of having to start and stop the servlet engine when you need to make changes to the HTML.

JSP versus FreeMarker (official documentation): http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/docs/app_faq.html#faq_jsp_vs_freemarker