Why use log adapter (generic logging)

Long time ago I have a question "Why use common logging, why not use log4j?"
The answer is "Because you can use different log implementation".
Unsatisfying answer.
But past week ago I found SLF4J and I use it for jSMPP projects.

It comes answer that we are creating API/Component that might be use with application using unpredictable log implementation.

Why I love jEdit

jEdit, this is an awsome programmer's text editor. Might some of people said that the user interface is ugly, but it's powerful, believe me.
Give it a try for some time range, try to find out "how do I do things in jEdit", try to see the available plugins.
Here is my favourit plugins:

1. Buffer Tabs
2. Project Viewer
3. Open It (just assign shortcut here ctrl+shift+o, and set the refresh interval to 10 seconds, and automatic import path to project path)
4. Sidekick
5. Error List
6. Plugins related to xml things
7. Ruby plugins if you want to use Ruby application
8. PHP Plugins if you want to develop PHP application
9. SuperAbbreviations (this is cool)

The most great thing is free of charge.

Value Object, Entity and Data Transfer Object

There are several type of object on Object Oriented Programming. There are a lot of misconception of those. Below is some explaination of some type such as Value Object, Entity and Value Object.

What is Value Object?

Value Object is not Entity. According to Martin Fowler http://www.martinfowler.com/ap2/valueObject.html "An object whose conceptual identity is based on a combination of values of its properties." So what was that? It's like Integer, Date, etc. When you want to do an equality those object to another it should compare all it's meaning properties.

public class Grade {
    private Subject subject;
    private float gradeValue;
    ....
    public boolean equals(Object o) {
        ...
        Grade other = (Grade)o;
        // compare all the meaning objects
        return subject.equals(subject) && gradeValue == other.gradeValue;
        ...
    }
}

It might have more than one instance of Grade in memory. John has Grade and Brad has it too, we can check the equality by it's properties (subject and the gradeValue). They both might have the same grade.
Address class can be another good example. Lets say that a store have a lot of customers. Addess is composite of city, street, and floor. When we find some customers life on same place we might say they are on the same city, street and floor.

So what is Entity?

Entity might be POJO and Value Object "might" too. It recognized by their identity.

public class User {
    private String username;
    private String password;
    private Group group;
    ....
    public boolean equals(Object o) {
        ...
        User other = (User)o;
        return username.equals(other.username);
        ...
    }
}

We only concern to username property as identity and ignore the other properties of User class (password, group). We can imagine entity is like a record on database table which has primary key.

So what is Data Transfer Object?

According to Martin Fowler http://www.martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/dataTransferObject.html, DTO is "An object that carries data between processes in order to reduce the number of method calls.". The main idea is object that transfered in order to reduce method calls over the network. We can call it as Value Object or we can call it as Entity. When it does? It depends on how we compare the object - Value Object if based on it's properties or Entity if based on it's identity.

references:

• http://www.martinfowler.com/ap2/valueObject.html


• http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ValueObject


• http://www.martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/dataTransferObject.html


• http://java.sun.com/blueprints/corej2eepatterns/Patterns/TransferObject.html


• http://martinfowler.com/bliki/LocalDTO.html

TODO and FIXME notes

This may help if you developing software in team.
We may add comment on our code as notes for later changes/implementation.

public class Monitor {
 public void doMonitor() {
     // TODO implement this method
     // FIXME create specific exception
     throw new IllegalArgumentException("Not implemented yet");
 }
 public void process() {
     // FIXME bugs ....
     ....
 }
}

But when the source is already unified with other source code on the same team, ("TODO implement this method") we might ask "who write this notes? the system is on production state and there are still unimplemented code!" or another case is "FIXME find bugs ....", someone find bugs, but the original writer can read and say "thanks, you save my life by finding my bugs" but he/she didn't know who the one find the bugs.

So it might a good idea if we write a name on our comments

public class Monitor {
 public void doMonitor() {
     // TODO uudashr: implement this method
     // FIXME uudashr: create specific exception
     throw new IllegalArgumentException("Not implemented yet");
 }
 public void process() {
     // FIXME uudashr: bugs ....
     ....
 }
}

Reflection API

It started 2 years ago, when I have to develop a web based system using PHP.
I'm not a PHP expert, so I asked my friends who works as PHP Developer a question
"What are they usually need for developing system? What is the best framework did they
use?" So 2 frameworks comes, Eocene and Mojavi.

I'm trying to learn about Mojavi, and I have to learn so many things to start my
project. Oh my god. So I stopped and think "Why don't I learn the concepts, and create
the framework by myself, so I don't have to waste time to learn features and
regret if the framework didn't fit to me".
So I started my simple framework using OO on PHP.
The problem is "how can I handle with unexists class on code time, but exist on
run time?" Google comes to help and I found "reflection".
So there is reflection API on PHP as well.
After that I learn reflection on Java.

Here is an example of how to use reflection API.

package uudashr.reflection;

public class Example {
  public void hello() {
      System.out.println("This is hello method");
  }

  public String toString() {
      return "This is example instance [from toString method]";
  }
}

How to handle this simple class using reflection API? watch this.

package uudashr.reflection;

import java.lang.reflect.Method;

public class GettingClass {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
      testCreateInstance();
    
      testExecutingMethod();
  }

  public static void testCreateInstance() {
      try {
          Class exampleClass = Class.forName("uudashr.reflection.Example");
          Object obj = exampleClass.newInstance();
          System.out.println(obj.toString());
      } catch (Exception e) {
          e.printStackTrace();
      }
  }

  public static void testExecutingMethod() {
      try {
          Class exampleClass = Class.forName("uudashr.reflection.Example");
        
          Object obj = exampleClass.newInstance();
        
          Method helloMethod = exampleClass.getMethod("hello", null);
          helloMethod.invoke(obj, null);
      } catch (Exception e) {
          e.printStackTrace();
      }
  }
}

Eclipse - Generating code, constructors, getters, and setters

Sometimes we have to work with POJO, like when we work with Hibernate. The main problem is after we create all the member variables, we should create the getters and setters. To create N properties, it need N * 2 method (of getters and setters), that would be an extra job for your fingers. The same problem comes when we want to create a constructor that has parameter from the member variables . Thanks god, Eclipse come to save us.

Assume we have create UserProfile class.



Now we will create the constructor
"right click + source"
or
"alt + shift + s" on windows
or
"alt + cmd + s" on mac
then select
"Generate Constructor using Fields..."

Select all fields you need



and click OK, it should be like this



and let's generate the getter and setter, open the source menu like above, then select
"Generate Getters and Setters..."



"Select all" or what ever you need, then boom, Eclipse save your fingers.

How to download using curl

Hello, I'm new on Mac, previously I'm using MS Windows and I still use it on my office. The first thing when I'm using my mac is "Where is my free download manager, where I can perform resume on my download?". Nix platform already has great tools to download "curl". How do I download using curl.

When you want to download, you have to find the URL for an example "http://www.downloads.com/filetodownload.zip".
To start download you can type

curl -C - -O http://www.downloads.com/filetodownload.zip

You can cancel your download or there might be an network error found, we can resume the download as long the server support for the resuming.

just type the same command on the same directory

curl -C - -O http://www.downloads.com/filetodownload.zip

Thats it, the download will resume.

Pure Object Oriented Language

What is Object Oriented? Based on this article written by Bjarne Stroustrup on http://www.research.att.com/~bs/oopsla.pdf , "A language or technique is object-oriented if and only if it directly supports: [1] Abstraction - providing some form of classes and objects. [2] Inheritance - providing the ability to build new abstractions out of existing ones. [3] Run-time polymorphism - providing some form of run-time binding". So, when a language have this three of features, we can call it as an Object Oriented Language.

So what is pure Object Oriented Programming Language? Which one is it?
What do I ask above question?
Well, there is some discussion, and someone says that Java is not pure Object Oriented Language instead of C++. Wow, it's shocking statement. So lets the amazing Google help us, and I find this http://www.jvoegele.com/software/langcomp.html , where stated where object orientation of language can be separated by:
1. Pure
2. Hybrid
3. Multi-Paradigm
4. Add-On
5. Partial Support

In this articles, consideration of pure Object Oriented Language should support such of qualities of :
1. Encapsulation / Information Hiding
2. Inheritance
3. Polymorphism/Dynamic Binding
4. All pre-defined types are Objects
5. All operation performed by sending messages to Objects
6. All user-defined types are Objects

Well, Java and even C++ doesn't fit with above definition. The Eiffel, Smalltalk, and Ruby is the winner as pure Object Oriented languages.