David LeBer reBeLog

Deployment is a big hairy subject, and I don’t pretend to be an expert, but these are some notes of things that help me.
Some caveats: I only develop on Mac OS X Client with Eclipse+WOLips and install on Mac OS X Server, so these notes probably won’t make any sense for anyone else… sorry.
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To get MySQL Connector/J versions > 3.0 to gracefully handle null dates, append zeroDateTimeBehavior=convertToNull to your jdbc url.
Example:
jdbc:mysql://host/dbname?capitalizeTypenames=true&zeroDateTimeBehavior=convertToNull

Another “so I don’t have to look it up” post:
Connection dictionaries are the collection of information in your eomodel that configures your access through jdbc to your database.
It is possible to set/modify this information through code and I, along with many others, have built classes that read these settings from your Properties file on app [...]

Zap2It pulled the plug on their free tv listings service earlier this month (my listings run out on the 17 th), luckily Schedules Direct (SD for those in the know) stepped up to the plate with a replacement service (not free but cheap enough).
Cecil from KnoppMyth posted instructions on getting SD to work on [...]

Don’t call session.terminate() unless you are really sure you’re done with it…
Hilarity will ensue.