Sopera opens the development center in Ireland

Last week myself and my colleague Colm stepped in into an office that Sopera secured for us in Dublin, Ballsbridge. We can nearly see the IONA Building we used to go to not that long ago from our place. The view from its window is really nice.

We are delighted. Being able to get to the office and work with and talk to your colleagues but also work from home on a given day is the ideal situation for software engineers and it really does feel it is the beginning of the new journey for us, with the only way ahead from here - onwards, especially now that Sopera has been acquired by Talend.

CXF Auto Redirect Feature in action

I was working today on testing some CXF JAX-RS client code against Tomcat and Jetty servers. All was going well with Tomcat : after deploying a sample.war to Tomcat and doing :

WebClient wc = WebClient.create("http://localhost:8080/sample";
wc.getCollection(Book.class);
// print the collection

a collection of Books was printed in the console.

However this code stopped working once I deployed a sample.war to Jetty, using a Maven Jetty plugin. I spent some good few hours debugging it before I spotted that Jetty returns HTTP 302 to a "GET /sample" request with the Location header pointing to "http://localhost:8080/sample/", note the trailing slash.

So changing the code to

WebClient wc = WebClient.create("http://localhost:8080/sample/";
wc.getCollection(Book.class);

made it work for both Tomcat and Jetty deployments. One other option to deal with the redirects is to use one of the WebClient methods returning JAX-RS Response rather than a typed one, and check the status and then follow the new URI if needed.

But I found the following code working nicely in the end :

WebClient wc = WebClient.create("http://localhost:8080/sample";
WebClient.getConfig(wc).getHttpConduit().getClient()
         .setAutoRedirect(true);
wc.getCollection(Book.class);

Being at ApacheCon 2010

I got a chance to attend to the Apache Conference in Atlanta last week thanks to Sopera organizing this trip. It was the first time I was at the ApacheCon, and it was an interesting and unique experience.

First, Sopera had a workshop during the first 2 days of the week, before the conference started, so it was a good opportunity for many of us in the OS team to meet each other and we had some interesting discussions along the way.

ApacheCon brings together an interesting mix of people, some of them having the commercial interest, some representing large commercial and government organizations adopting OS, and some working on OS projects because this is what they really like doing on their own time.

It was interesting to listen to some technical talks. And meeting new people and seeing the former colleagues I used to work with (with some of them I will be working again from now on :-)) was great. And of course, meeting CXF legends such as Glen and Benson was another highlight :-).