JUnitPerf timed load JUnit test example

For my own future reference, here is a complete example of a JUnitPerf timed load test of a JUnit test.

First the normal JUnit test case.

A perl-wrapped java-based Nagios MS SQL plugin: check_mssql

I didn't find a nagios plugin that I like for monitoring our MS SQL databases. So I hacked up one in java using the jtds jdbc driver. Yes, the 2 minor things I do to improve "security" are horrible. I'll handle those things better later....

check_http as a Nagios Web Service plugin

We typically use nagios to monitor our hardware and hosted services. Now that we are starting to offer more web services, we wanted to replace the ad-hoc curl wrapper we were using with a more standard nagios plugin. After searching for one and not finding any, it occurred to me that if curl can do it, maybe you can trick the standard check_http plugin to also do it. A quick experiment with an https hosted web service (self signed certificate for this test) shows that it works:

./check_http -S -k 'SOAPAction: ping' -r 'Current Status.*OK' -T text/xml -P '<s:envelope s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><s:header/><s:body><ping/><s:Body><s:Envelope>' -t 10 -m 512 -p 8083 -H 192.168.1.254 -u /Services/Search/search.svc
HTTP OK HTTP/1.1 200 OK - 0.033 second response time |time=0.032722s;;;0.000000 size=897B;512;0;0

Now time to look at nagios grapher...

Siebel COM programming with Groovy

After my success in using Perl to program the siebel COM interface, I thought I'd try groovy. Yes it works as well.

Siebel COM programming with Perl

I wanted to play around with the Siebel COM interface using a dynamic language instead of having to re-compile after every change. I happened to have perl installed on my machine so it was the natural choice. Since google didn't show me any usable hits beforehand and it took a bit of investigation, I'm posting my results here.

Csharp checkstyle partial solution

There doesn't seem to be an equivalent to Java/Eclipse's checkstyle for Csharp.Net

For the purpose of attempting to enforce a common code formatting style, microsoft recommends a per-solution config file together with a VB macro that automatically loads it up when you open the solution

Testing WCF Services using groovyWS (Apache CXF)

I wanted to use groovyWS to test my WSDL-first .Net WCF web services. By default, WCF doesn't publish its WSDL, it doesn't publish a flat WSDL, and the recommended WsHttpBinding binding makes groovyWS unhappy. Once you work around these things, it is possible to very conveniently write independent dynamic tests for your services.

Since it took a while to collect all this information, I thought I would post my result: a WCF ping service that is interoperable with a groovyWS (i.e. Apache CXF) client.