dbutils... ORMS .. awesome

 https://testsortedset.wordpress.com/javasnippets/my-tiny-mini-orm-with-commons-dbutils-and-generics-2/

SSL or no SSL ?

 https://mkyong.com/webservices/jax-ws/java-security-cert-certificateexception-no-name-matching-localhost-found/

Fat runnable jars with maven

 First read this for the different ways:

https://www.baeldung.com/executable-jar-with-maven

If you have external/local jars, understand the problem:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/364114/can-i-add-jars-to-maven-2-build-classpath-without-installing-them

One possible dirty way:

https://github.com/stephenc/non-maven-jar-maven-plugin

Apache CXF and SOAP XML Logging

 Phew this one was tough..but managed to solve it eventually using the following:

https://newbedev.com/apache-cxf-loggingininterceptor-is-deprecated-what-to-use-instead

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56356503/how-to-log-soap-request-response-using-log4j2-in-separate-log-files-dynamically

And this one did the most work

https://newbedev.com/how-to-modify-the-raw-xml-message-of-an-outbound-cxf-request

In between, had to mess with Streams.. it was crazy:

https://newbedev.com/convert-outputstream-to-bytearrayoutputstream

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5923817/how-to-clone-an-inputstream/5924132#5924132

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33014035/write-from-output-stream-to-output-stream

Finally .. learnt alot again.

Jar with dependencies using maven

 This works for me:

https://www.programmersought.com/article/82714095304/

Using maven to package

 https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/examples/sharing-descriptors.html

Found the above and managed to use it in my project!

Getting started with Selenium on Eclipse

 https://www.guru99.com/installing-selenium-webdriver.html

Tomcat console access

 For Tomcat v8.5.4 and above, the file <tomcat>/webapps/manager/META-INF/context.xml has been adjusted:

<Context antiResourceLocking="false" privileged="true" >
    <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve"
         allow="127\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+|::1|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1" />
</Context>

Change this file to comment the Valve:

<Context antiResourceLocking="false" privileged="true" >
    <!--
    <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve"
         allow="127\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+|::1|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1" />
    -->
</Context>

After that, refresh your browser (not need to restart Tomcat), you can see the manager page.

Multiple Tomcat Instances

https://dzone.com/articles/run-configure-multiple-instance-in-a-single-tomcat

https://crunchify.com/how-to-run-multiple-tomcat-instances-on-one-server/

Useful site for generating sample codes for post JSON

 https://reqbin.com/req/java/h4rnefmw/post-json-with-bearer-token-authorization-header

Java Client to do a HTTP post

 Had so much trouble to do this on a J2EE 6  using Jersey 1  and Apache HTTPClient.

Finally resolved using pure java.io classes:

https://gist.github.com/dnetix/db23658cb308a0f2ac1b09f2ddb726d3

Dependency management in Maven

 Interesting:

https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/mastering-maven-dependency-exclusions

Using Maven to generate "fat" jars or "uber" jars

 This one worked for me:

http://tutorials.jenkov.com/maven/maven-build-fat-jar.html

Here are other ways to do it:

https://mkyong.com/maven/how-to-create-a-jar-file-with-maven/

Remember to put the xml outside of pluginManagement

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33261354/maven-copy-dependecies-not-working

If you have some jars referenced as external jars, you can try this: (didn't work for me)

https://programmersought.com/article/90075878511/

Some useful background info:

https://imagej.net/Uber-JAR

What works for me:

<build>

<finalName>icommogateway</finalName>

<pluginManagement>

<!-- lock down plugins versions to avoid using Maven defaults (may be 

moved to parent pom) -->

</pluginManagement>

<plugins>

<!-- download source code in Eclipse, best practice -->

<plugin>

<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>

<artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>

<version>2.9</version>

<configuration>

<downloadSources>true</downloadSources>

<downloadJavadocs>false</downloadJavadocs>

<dependencySets>

<dependencySet>

<excludes>

<exclude>log4j:log4j</exclude>

</excludes>

</dependencySet>

</dependencySets>

</configuration>

</plugin>

<!-- clean lifecycle, see https://maven.apache.org/ref/current/maven-core/lifecycles.html#clean_Lifecycle -->

<plugin>

<artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>

<version>3.1.0</version>

</plugin>

<plugin>

<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>

<version>3.8.0</version>

<configuration>

<source>1.7</source>

<target>1.7</target>

<compilerArgs>

<!-- The parameter name and the parameter value appear in pairs, that 

is, the first is the name, and the second is the value -->

<arg>-extdirs</arg>

<arg>M:/Development/Unica/Interact/912/interact.jar</arg>

</compilerArgs>

</configuration>

</plugin>

<plugin>

<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>

<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>

<version>3.1.1</version>

<configuration>

<descriptorRefs>

<descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>

</descriptorRefs>

</configuration>

<executions>

<execution>

<id>make-assembly</id>

<phase>package</phase>

<goals>

<goal>single</goal>

</goals>

</execution>

</executions>

</plugin>

</plugins>

</build>

To exclude some jars:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42412964/maven-depenency-plugin-copy-dependencies-exclude-single-artifact

https://github.com/albertattard/how-to-exclude-dependencies-from-maven-assembly-plugin/blob/master/pom.xml

https://blog.csdn.net/yh_zeng2/article/details/82859914