stillhacking

Given that I have been staying up a bit later than usual in recent weeks to watch my Red Sox successful quest to win another title, my schedule has been slightly off. Among other items, I almost missed the fact that Roger Brinkley recorded his last episode of the Java Spotlight Podcast . The episode, number 150, is a particularly good one IMHO because it's an interview with James Gosling.  Certainly some of what was asked and answered is not necessarily news but it is a very nicely done casual interview with one of our industry greats.  Hearing his perspective and knowing he is happily coding mostly Java using NetBeans made me smile.  Being a positive guy and wanting relative peace and harmony in our field, not to mention the world in general, I really appreciated hearing James say that he feels Oracle has been a good steward of Java. While I agree with the sentiment, I think because many, including James, did not expect it, the FUD-effect has lingered.  When J...

Earlier today I installed Mavericks on my MacBook Pro.  I found I had to reinstall Java 7 (JRE) in  order to get the Java Control Panel back.  I was also prompted to reinstall Java 6 when I started an older Java application. As far as NetBeans 7.4 development goes, I have not yet noticed any problems. All in all, so far...so good.

I recently had a need to get an Informix database connection going on Glassfish .  This is documented but what I found was not quite enough to get me going. I was using the JDBC driver from IBM .  After the driver is installed, there are six jar files in the lib directory.  Given that Informix is one of our primary databases, we use this driver with a variety of Java-based development tools.  Typically this involves making the ifxjdbc.jar file available on the CLASSPATH and you're good to go. In order to create an Informix JDBC Connection Pool in Glassfish,  I found that I needed to put both the ifxjdbc.jar and the ifxjdbcx.jar files in Glassfish lib directory. I used javax.sql.DataSource as the Resource Type and entered com.informix.jdbcx.IfxDataSource as the Datasource Classname . The additional settings properties I entered are pictured below. HTH, Carl