RESTClient 2.5 Released

Hello Everyone!

Happy to announce the immediate availability of RESTClient 2.5:

http://code.google.com/p/rest-client/downloads/list

The most prominent enhancements in this release are: SSL two-way authentication contributed by Matt Wilson [http://mattwilson.org/] and support for SSL self-signed certificates. For a complete list of enhancements, read the Release Notes:

http://code.google.com/p/rest-client/wiki/ReleaseNotes

XSLT Transform Cli Tool Updated: Version 0.2.0

This command-line tool from WizTools.org mini-projects now supports URLs as command-line parameters:

Cache-lib available in Maven Central

Cache-lib dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.wiztools</groupId>
    <artifactId>cache-lib</artifactId>
    <version>0.1.0</version>
</dependency>

Pagination Lib available in Maven Central

Maven users, link to the library:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.wiztools</groupId>
    <artifactId>pagination-lib</artifactId>
    <version>0.2.0</version>
</dependency>

Article: Debug classpath issues with style

Go to the article: Debug classpath issues with style.

Tool to assist in debugging classpath issues in Java Web Applications

Classloader Servlet project consists of two servlets: one to search for from which location is a particular class loaded; and the other to list the complete classpath (in the order of loading) available to the web application. Deployment is just copying the Jar file into your web application's /WEB-INF/lib directory.

WizTools.org Checksum Compute version 0.4.0 Released

WizTools.org Checksum Compute version 0.4.0 released. This release supports native drag and drop support for files. Download from: http://code.google.com/p/wiztools/downloads/list.

New cli tool: Tree

One of the tool I missed most when I switched to Mac from Linux was the tree command. I wrote a new tool Tree (available from WizTools.org mini-projects) in Java which has similar functionality as Unix tree. This tool is an executable Jar:

$ java -jar tree-0.1.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar

The output is similar (not same) to Unix tree command. The tool also supports command-line options:

Download.

Markdown2Html: Java command line tool v0.1.0 released

I am happy to announce the immediate availability of Markdown2Html tool (as part of the WizTools.org mini-projects). Guess what, this is a command line tool written in Java used to convert Markdown text to HTML. The tool operates on STDIN and STDOUT. Sample usage:

$ java -jar markdown2html-0.1.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar < sample.md > out.html

Download the executable Jar: http://wiztools.googlecode.com/files/markdown2html-0.1.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar.

RESTClient Featured in Mac Softpedia

Check it out here: http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Development/Java/RESTClient.shtml

Checksum Compute 0.3.0 Released

Checksum Compute is a MD5 and SHA computation tool written in Java Swing. Version 0.3.0 is released and is available for download. The new version has better support for Mac.

WizTools.org RESTClient 2.4 Released

Grab the shiny new version! Release Notes lists the changes in the new version.

Timezone Converter 0.4.0 Released

The new release of Timezone Converter is also optimized for Mac:

Download from usual location.

LDAP Password Change Validation

Our QA team was in dilemma today: there was a HTML form which collected change password request, and updated the user password in LDAP on success scenario. There was no login form corresponding to this to validate if the password has been successfully updated in LDAP. To help the team, I developed a quick tool to test the LDAP by binding the user to it. The tool source is available here: http://code.google.com/p/wiztools/source/browse/#svn%2Fldap-auth-validator%2Ftrunk

Usage:

$ java -jar ldap-auth-validator-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar \
                                    -u <ldap://host:port/base.dn> [user-cn]

On executing the command, the tool will ask the user to input password. If the password allows the user to bind to the ldap, SUCCESS output will be printed.

WizTools.org Commons Lib: 0.3.0 Release

Commons Lib has undergone a revision, and is now enhanced with additional utility classes. The new version is available in public Maven repository:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.wiztools.commons</groupId>
  <artifactId>wiztools-commons-lib</artifactId>
  <version>0.3.0</version>
</dependency>

Release notes available here: http://code.google.com/p/wiztools-commons-lib/wiki/ReleaseNotes.

WizTools.org projects dependent on Commons Lib will be updated in a phased manner.

How-we-use-the-tool tutorial on Servlet Path Info

How-we-use-the-tool tutorial on Servlet Path Info: http://fileit.in/p/395: This note explains how I was able to test Apache mod_rewrite quickly using Servlet Path Info.

Web Tester (online tool hosted in Google App Engine)

Web Tester is a online tool to host your HTML page temporarily in a web-url. The tool is configured to expire content after 24 hours of publishing.

This tool was developed for a specific use in a project I was involved with. In this project we used Schema.org defined rich snippets for SEO purposes. For testing this we required Google Rich Snippets Testing Tool. Unfortunately, Google's tool was available for use only for pages available in the internet. I had to enable my team to test content during development itself. So, I developed this tool wherein the development version of the pages can be web-enabled for immediate testing using Google's tool.

I am sure this is just one use of this tool. I am sure users could find many other interesting uses of it.

The source code of the tool is available here: http://code.google.com/p/gae-web-tester/.

Cache Lib: A Cache Abstraction API

Cache Lib is a simple Cache abstraction API. The API defines two interfaces Cache and CacheManager. Using these interfaces, adapter implementations for existing Cache APIs can be developed. A sample adapter implementation for EhCache is provided in the source repository.

JWGet 0.2.0 Released

JWGet is the command-line download utility available from our mini-projects. 0.2.0 version has support for better name resolution when naming the downloaded file. Download location.

Article on new framework from Commons Lib project for consistent toString generation

Link to the article: http://fileit.in/p/387. The article will take around 10 minutes to read.

Wiz WebServer 0.2.0 Released

Version 0.2.0 of Wiz WebServer, a tiny web-server written in Java is available for download. The new version sports better command-line parameter support, and fixes a bug which was mapping the URL parameters also to the file-system path.

Release 0.2.0 of WizTools.org oEmbed Java API

The new version has the OEmbedUrlBuilder convenience class, which simplifies building oEmbed Urls. The project is hosted at Google Code and downloads are available here. Maven users can easily link to the dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.wiztools</groupId>
    <artifactId>wiztools-oembed</artifactId>
    <version>0.2.0</version>
</dependency>

Version 0.1.0 of WizTools.org oEmbed API Released

The first ever release of WizTools.org oEmbed API is published. This is not yet available in the Maven central repository, so it is recommended to build from the source after checking out 0.1.0 release:

$ hg clone -r wiztools-oembed-0.1.0 https://code.google.com/p/wiztools-oembed/

The JavaDoc API is also available.

Launching Java API for oEmbed 1.0 Specification

I am happy to announce the launch of WizTools.org oEmbed Java API project. This is an implementation of the oEmbed specification. The aim of this project:

• Minimal external dependency. Maybe, the only external dependency I forsee is for JSON parsing.


• XML parsing is done by super-fast StAX.


• API should be easily extendable.


• Validation for compliance to the specification should be in place.


• Should be available in Maven public repository.

The initial version of the code is committed in the mercurial repository---interested hackers, have a look!

CSS Import Resolver 0.3.0 Released

CSS Import Resolver is a new tool from WizTools.org Mini-projects. This tool resolves the @import url(...); statements in input CSS files (by replacing the @import statement with actual content of the linked CSS) and creates a huge output-CSS (written to STDOUT by default). Including the combined-css in your webpages will improve the performance of the site by avoiding additional HTTP roundtrips. More information in this wiki. Download from the Mini-projects download url.

Tutorial on Multicast Tool

A quick tutorial is published: http://code.google.com/p/wiztools/wiki/MulticastToolTutorial.

Multicast Tool: Bug fix version 0.1.2 released

This is a bug-fix release specially for the Windows environment. For some strange limitations of the Microsoft platform, I was not able to read from the STDIN a bigger buffer size. This has been fixed in the 0.1.2 release.

Multicast Tool: Bug fix version 0.1.1 released

A bug-fix version of Multicast Tool has been released. For sending data to a multicast group, the sender port is randomly picked by the application now. The help text is also formatted for better readability compared to previous version.

New tool from Mini Projects: Multicast Tool 0.1.0

Usage:



Download from: Mini-projects Downloads.

XSLT Transform Cli Tool

A tiny command-line tool to do the XSLT transformation. Usage:

$ java -jar xslt-transform-VERSION.jar stylesheet file [file ...]

From the WizTools.org Mini-Projects.