three screens in vlc media player while playing wmv

If you're trying to watch a video of Windows Media Video (WMV) format with vlc player but vlc is opening three windows of the video in the same time let me give you a hand. First open Video - Video Track from the menu and then select disable and then track 1. One window is better than three for a movie, right?

EmptyResultDataAccessException in your face

Recently I get an EmptyResultDataAccessException in a project where we use Spring JDBC. The full exception listing is "org.springframework.dao.EmptyResultDataAccessException: Incorrect result size: expected 1, actual 0". When I trace the exception I see that I'm calling queryForLong() method of JdbcTemplate for "SELECT Column FROM TABLENAME" on an empty table. Column here is of Long type. Now, I plan to catch the exception and return an unusual value (like -1) as a result. On the service layer, I plan to check for equality to the unusual value and proceed with the right logical flow.

Notice that if you use some function like count(), min(), max() ... in the same query (SELECT MAX(Column) FROM TABLENAME) you won't get the same exception but a "0" result instead.

a great way of improving your java code: findbugs!

We decided to make our project's code more robust and bug-free. I suggested the use of Findbugs which is basically a program that uses static analysis to search for bugs in your java code. It can be used as IDE plug-in or as a stand-alone application. Findbugs pinpoints problematic places in your code. There are many type of pre-defined problems that Findbugs looks for like duplicate case branches in switch statements, streams which are not closed in all cases, inefficient use of map iterator, redundant comparison to null ... etc. I can't recommend Findbugs enough.

bufferedwriter or windows, which one of you is my enemy?

I was planning to name a file I generated using the username and the date of generation, so my naming format was like "01-03-2010-13:33-user1". When I'm trying to do that with BufferedWriter of our beloved Java, this file is not created. ":" is not allowed by Windows so a file with "01-03-2010-13" as a name is created and nothing is inserted although I called bufferedWriter.write("something"). The good part is that no exception is thrown by BufferedWriter. Great isnt it?

thank you axis2 for this handful of close_wait

In one of our projects we are using axis2 1.4 for generating the client side of the web service. Our web service part is working for few hours but gets stuck for no apparent reason. After I investigate a little I saw that it generates lots of sockets with CLOSE_WAIT state which results this freeze. I google a bit about similar problems with Axis2 and saw that this a known bug. Here's the source I used for fixing it. As explicitly calling the garbage collector didn't seem like a good solution, and as I can't upgrade axis2, I opt for changing the HTTP version to 1.0. For this I set a single field in the ServiceStub by calling

serviceStub._getServiceClient().getOptions()
.setProperty(
org.apache.axis2.transport.http.HTTPConstants.HTTP_PROTOCOL_VERSION,
    org.apache.axis2.transport.http.HTTPConstants.HEADER_PROTOCOL_10)

from ServiceStub where this object is created.
After that, this CLOSE_WAIT bug is fixed.