All blog formats are equal, but some are more equal ... Well, there seems to be various different versions of XML formatted blogs? My first version was design around the RSS 2.0 specs from UserLand.com. Unfortunately javablogs.com seems to have some problems with this format because suddenly my entries were listed twice. I have no clue what has happened. So I decided to mimic the format of Roller Weblogger. Perhaps some RSS guru can check my XML file and drop me a note?

Yesterday I compiled a project on my iBook and deployed the resulting jar files. Today the customer called me and told me that the CSV parser wasn't working anymore. After some research I found out that javac on OS X doesn't use ISO-8859-1 as the default encoding (I guess it uses MacRoman). Acutally the problem is that we have german umlauts in some of our source files. Therefore it is a good idea to specifiy the enconding property in your ant task:

<javac encoding="iso-8859-1" ...
...

Apple has posted a nice article about various iTunes tips in their knowledge base :
Read

My generator seems still to be buggy because the items are listed twice on javablogs.com. Sorry!

Today we tried to access our EJBs through a remote client. Unfortunately we were not able to connect because the lookup always failed with a NameNotFoundException error. Of course we were sure that those EJBs were bound because our webapp were able to access them. After some time of investigation we finally found the cause: in our jboss.xml file we set the JNDI name to java:/<ejb>. It seems that java:/ is visible inside the JVM only. After we changed the JNDI name to simply <ejb> everything worked fine.

So here's a snippet from our jboss.xml file before:
[code] UserManagement java:/UserManagement [/code]
And this is a snippet afterwards: [code] UserManagement UserManagement [/code]