QA

Setting up Svn Repository over apache2 easy and quick:

Step1>Downloading and Installing Svn modules and dependencies :
Download the most recent distribution tarball from the below mentioned URL :
http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=260&expandFolder=74
Subversion depends on a number of third party tools and libraries.The Subversion has a package containing the minimal prerequisite libraries (Apache Portable Runtime, serf,neon,sqlite-amalgamation and Zlib) called the “dependency package” tarball or zipfile.

You can simply unpack [...]


Making a Spring bean Applicationcontext aware

Suppose we have a webapplication with spring,
and we are initializing spring’s WebApplicationContext by configuring ContextLoaderListener in web.xml.
How can we get an instance of spring’s applicationContext object?

Possible solutions:
While configuring spring through web.xml the spring ApplicationContext object is set in the ServletContext.
To get ApplicationContext we say

ApplicationContext applicationContext = (ApplicationContext)servletContext.getAttribute(WebApplicationContext.ROOT_WEB_APPLICATION_CONTEXT_ATTRIBUTE);

So we can get spring ApplicationContext [...]


testing software product interoperability

I have been trying to write on product interoperability for quite sometime. So here it goes. What do we mean by product interoperability? In my opinion, interoperability of a product is its ability to function while different variables of its environment - software as well as hardware - are changed. Testing software interoperability assumes more [...]