http://code.supergloo.com Code samples and programming tutorials Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:49:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A recent development task was integrating a FedEx web service consumer (client) in a Grails application. Users require the ability to generate FedEx shipping labels from within the app. To accomplish this, we call the SOAP based web services provided by FedEx. I decided to use Apache CXF for ... http://code.supergloo.com/2008/02/08/consuming-fedex-web-services-from-grails-using-apache-cxf/ With a few tweaks, the Radiant CMS Mailer Extension can be turned into an extension that allows form submissions (with pre-post validation) to save to a database; e.g. class DatabaseFormPage < Page class DatabaseFormError < StandardError; end attr_reader :form_name, :form_conf, :form_error, :form_data, :tag_attr # Page ... http://code.supergloo.com/2007/12/12/radiant-cms-database-form-extension/ Here's an example of calling Fit tests defined in Fitnesse from Ant. This can be called from a continuous integration server like cruise control, hudson, bamboo, luntbuild, pmeasy: ... http://code.supergloo.com/2007/07/28/automating-fit-tests-in-fitnesse-server-from-cruise-control-hudson-bamboo-via-ant/ As the name implies, StrutsTestCase is a tool for testing your Struts code. In this article, I'll cover: What is StutsTestCase? How? When? Where? This article assumes the reader has familiarity and experience with Junit. "StrutsTestCase for JUnit is an extension of the standard JUnit TestCase class that provides facilities for testing code based on ... http://code.supergloo.com/2007/03/30/unit-testing-with-strutstestcase-for-junit-tutorial/ Fit testing provides a way for non-developers to participate in test driven development. Fit testing facilitates collaboration and communication in applications that need to verify results from calculations. From the Fit testing website, http://fit.c2.com/: Great software requires collaboration and communication. Fit is a tool for enhancing collaboration in ... http://code.supergloo.com/2007/03/23/example-of-java-acceptance-testing-with-fit/ Do you need to use a Windows DLL from Java? I recommend investigating the open source tool: Jawin. I found used this tool in order to call a DLL that converts HTML to RTF. After struggling with various JNI tutorials, Jawin was refreshing. What makes this tool ... http://code.supergloo.com/2007/03/20/dll-from-java-with-jawin/