[JAVA] ArrayList from array

It's easy to make array from collection, but visa-versa might look a bit more complicated. But it's not really if you know appropriate static method of certain built-in utility classes. As simple as it can be:

Integer[] arrayOfInts = new Integer[10];

List<Integer> listOfInts = Arrays.asList( arrayOfInts );

[JAVA] Captions disappear in NETBEANS 7.0.1 designer

Hello

Probably a little thing, but made me wonder for a while.

Problem: 


In NetBeans 7.0.1 swing designer when you set an Action for a component using Set Action menu option when you right click on the component in designer, after you reload the project in IDE the text caption on the component disappears.

Cause 


This happens because when you set up an action new separate entry gets created in properties file for a text that is going to be shown on the control.

Solution:


  

 In the Set action dialog there is a Text property which you can specify. It's going to be shown on a component.

[Java] EJB exception while trying to traverse a relationship

Problem: 


Excpetion - Exception Description: An attempt was made to traverse a relationship using indirection that had a null Session. This often occurs when an entity with an uninstantiated LAZY relationship is serialized and that lazy relationship is traversed after serialization. To avoid this issue, instantiate the LAZY relationship prior to serialization.


Cause: 

Let's suppose we have two entity beans, each representing single tables from DB. Let's suppose further that we have one table referencing another table in ONE-to-MANY relationship. For example: Publisher - Book.Entity bean for the Publisher table is going to have a collection of Book objects as it's member. Which is logical as one publisher can have several books under it's production.

Now, let's suppose we have a session bean with a method that returns a Publisher object. If we retrieve that object on the client and then try to get Book collection inside it, the exception mentioned above is going to be thrown

Solution:


In the session bean method before you return the Publisher object you can make persistence provider manually traverse the relationship by calling size() method of Book collection inside.


@Override
  public Publisher getPublisherById(int id) {
try {
  Query query = em.createNamedQuery("Publisher.findById");
  query.setParameter("id", id);
  List<Publisher> pub_list = query.getResultList();
  Publisher b = pub_list .get(0);
  b.getBookCollection().size(); //manually traversing the relationship
    return b;
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.out.println(this.getClass().getName() + ".getAllBomItems:" + ex.getMessage());
}
return null;
}

Or you also can set up EAGER relationships for your persistence provider. But in the case of large database with a lot of relationships it might reduce the performance greatly.

Drag'n'drop files problem on Visual Studio 2010

If you all of a sudden notice that you cannot drag&drop files inside your Visual Studio from outside on Windows 7, for example, from Windows Explorer, it might be the case that you are running VS under Admin user rights. In this case it won't allow you drag&drop-ing files inside it.

The solution is simple. 

• Turn off User Account Control. Go to Control Panel -> User Accounts -> Change User account Control settings. Drag the slider all the way down and reboot.

The thing is that by design when you run VS under admin privileges it starts in different security context and thus disallows dragging files from Windows Explorer. Disabling UAC fixes that. Unfortunately doing that you will also no longer see warnings when you try to run unknown (possibly malicious) software. But that's the price to pay when you have to run VS as admin.

Hello there!

My first blog entry around. I'm starting this blog to post some technical tricks I find out on my digital endeavours. It's going to be mostly programming oriented, along with regular computer problems occasionally, a little bit of small things, perhaps some bigger things down the line as I get more experience. Some things posted here may not be the most innovative out there. The main intention is to gather my personal experiences of solving various problems together. Hopefully this helps anyone. Well, anyway, it's enough for the first entry. Let the journey begin... 


Oh, and sorry in advance for any english inconsistencies. It's my second language, and although I consider myself being rather good at it writing, when I write a lot I may run into strange constructions which are not clearly understandable nor grammatically correct to the native speaker, just like this sentence. Sorry for that! 


So.. Take two! Let the journey begin..