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One thing I immediately needed when using GIT/EGit instead of Subversion/Subversive in Eclipse,  was the possibility to quickly revert the changes I made to a file. The good news is that with EGit it goes just as fast…

Revert changes:

  • Subversive  – right click on file > Team > Revert…
  • EGit – right click on file > Replace With > File in Git Index
Replace with file from Git index

Replace with file from Git index

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There are quite often situations, when you’d need to add or substract a time period to a date when you are accessing the database via Java Persistence API(JPA). Now

  • the bad news is that Java Persistence Query Language(JPQL) does not support such operations on dates yet.
  • the good news is that it is possible by using a native query or doing the computation on the Java side. I prefer the second option as it provides database independence.
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    <head>
    <title>Hoisting example reloaded</title>
</head>
&lt;body&gt;
    &lt;h1&gt;Hoisting in action&lt;/h1&gt;
    &lt;script type="application/javascript"&gt;
        var hoisting = "global variable";
        alert("global 'hoisting' var =&gt; " + hoisting);
        (function(){
            alert("local 'hoisting' var (BEFORE declaration WILL NOT PICK its global 'shadow' -&gt; undefined !) =&gt; " + hoisting);
            var hoisting = "local variable";
            alert("local 'hoisting' var (AFTER declaration WILL HIDE its global 'shadow' -&gt; assigned value !) =&gt; " + hoisting);
            // block
            {
                var hoisting = "block variable";
                alert("block 'hoisting' var (AFTER declaration WILL OVERRIDE its local 'shadow' -&gt; assigned value !) =&gt; " + hoisting);
            }
            // after block
            alert("local 'hoisting' var REPLACED AFTER BLOCK with its block 'shadow' =&gt; " + hoisting);
            // THE moral
            alert("The Hoisting MORAL: ALL local variables (even from blocks) are pre-defined/hoisted by JavaScript Runtime in front of the method body !\nDYI to make it clear !");
        })(); //self-executing function
    &lt;/script&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;

    Thank you Dev{eloper} Stonez (@devstonez) for the tip.

    Adrian Matei Reading time ~6 minutes

    1. References of used class/method in code

    This is a very quick and useful way to find out where a class or method is used throughout the workspace/project. How to do it – select class/method > right click > References > Workspace (Ctrl+Shift+G) || Project

    Once you’ve done that, the results will be displayed in the Search view:

    Show-References

    Show references

    Another alternative for that is by selecting the class/method > start Java Search (Ctrl+H) > select your search criteria (in this case Type) and limit to References:

    show references - java search

    Show References via Java Search

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    Adrian Matei Reading time ~7 minutes

    This is sort of a follow up post for a previous post of mine – RESTful Web Services Example in Java with Jersey, Spring and MyBatis. It is based on the same example application, which, via a REST API, can execute CRUD operations against a single Podcasts table. If in the first post the focus was on how to build the REST API with Jersey, this time it is on the data persistence layer. I will present how to implement a container-agnostic persistence layer with JPA2/Hibernate, being glued in the application via Spring.

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