JFind by Tom Ball

During my younger days, I remember visiting:

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/2005/09/03/jfind-simple-jar-file-locator

This became one of my most valuable tool in my Java programming life. The tool basically finds the Jar file(s) which has the searched class in it. The tool is executable from command-line.

The trouble with the tool was unavailability of it in binary-executable form. So I had copy of this tool in my cloud drives so that I can fetch from any machine any time.

Recently I was in need of this tool, again. I thought: would it not be good if I am able to build the tool and give an executable version of it, for all to download? So it is here:

http://code.google.com/p/jfind/.

Wiz WebServer 0.1.0 Released

Wiz WebServer is a fork of the Mini WebServer project. The fork has additional features:

• Java 6 build.


• Maven source code organization.


• New MIME types added.


• Code cleanup.


• Command-line parameters for port and folder path.


• UTF-8 encoding enforced.


• HTTP 1.1 response.

Download release from: https://bitbucket.org/subwiz/wiz-webserver/downloads.

Checksum Compute 0.2.0

This is the renamed version of Digest Compute tool. There have been some aesthetic improvements in the UI compared to the previous edition. Download from the usual location: http://code.google.com/p/wiztools/downloads/list.

Digest Compute 0.1.0 Released

This is a tool from the mini-projects is for computing checksum of the selected file. Checksum is computed using the following algorithms: MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-256.

This is developed in behest of my friend Sunil Patel. Download from: http://code.google.com/p/wiztools/downloads/list.

Timezone Converter 0.3.0 Released

This has an important UI change: inclusion of the date. Download from: http://code.google.com/p/wiztools/downloads/list.

Timezone Converter 0.2.0 Released

This new version features:

1. Refresh button near the Source TimeZone to update to the current time.


2. A copy-to-clipboard button near the Destination TimeZone.


3. The tool remembers the timezone last selected when re-opened.


4. Ability to swap timezones using short-cut key Ctrl+S.

Download.

Timezone Converter 0.1.0 Released

A nifty tool to convert time between various zones is available for download. This tool is part of WizTools.org Mini-project.

Screenshot:

RESTClient 2.3.3 Released

WizTools.org RESTClient version 2.3.3 is a bug-fix release from the 2.3 branch. This release fixes few encoding issues reported by users, Hostname verifier being ignored in few cases and made the build compatible with Maven 3. Download from: http://code.google.com/p/rest-client/downloads/list.

URLEncoder 1.1 Released

Happy to announce the availability of WizTools.org URLEncoder 1.1. This version adds support for specifying the encoder (previous version was designed to encode/decode only using UTF-8). Download from: http://code.google.com/p/wiztools/downloads/detail?name=urlencode-ui-1.1.jar.

Launching 0.1.0 version of xsd-gen

The first version of xsd-gen is released. Download from the usual location.

xsd-gen: New Project Launched

Happy to announce the launch of new project xsd-gen. This is a command-line tool to generate XML Schema (.xsd) from an XML. The generation is done using the best common approach, and will require manual touch-up after generation.

RESTClient 2.3.2 Released

A major issue with the previous releases of RESTClient was that it was not accepting headers and parameters with identical keys. This has been fixed in the present version. This has been made possible because of the data-structures available in the WizTools.org Commons Lib project.

Downloads can be found in the usual location.

WizTools.org Commons Lib 0.2.0 Available in Maven Central Repository

WizTools.org Commons Lib 0.2.0 available in Maven Central Repository. To add as dependency:

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

Skeletal project to get started with JA-SIG CAS Java Client

Every time I have visited the subject of CAS SSO, I have come across misleading documentation, missing information on configuration, and few instances of conflicting information. This I am sure everyone who is has tried CAS, or who is using CAS is aware of. To ease the setup of client side in CAS, I have started a new project called cas-client-test. This project will not release any binaries. This is a skeletal project which should be used as a starting point of CAS-based projects. So the only thing this project will have is the source code.

RESTClient 2.3.1 Released

This is a minor maintenance release from the 2.3 branch. Previously RESTClient supported only UTF-8 encoding in the response body. Now the encoding is based on the HTTP header received. Download.

URL Encoder 1.0.1

This is a maintenance release of the WizTools.org URL Encoder. This release adds clipboard-copy facility to the encoded URL. Download from: http://wiztools.googlecode.com/files/urlencode-ui-1.0.1.jar.

Amazon S3 backup cli tool updated to version 1.1

Download the executable version. This version fixes two issues:

1. In the previous versions we were getting this warning:

   Mar 5, 2010 7:46:53 AM org.jets3t.service.utils.Mimetypes getInstance
   WARNING: Unable to find 'mime.types' file in classpath

   This has been fixed now.


2. Updated the underlying JetS3t library to the newest version.

Shutting down The Great Wall

I will be shutting down The Great Wall micro-blogging project. This project was started when I was in employment and Twitter was banned in our office. I wanted a platform to micro-blog my project progress to my stake holders. For this purpose The Great Wall was created. After quitting that Job, I did not have enough reason to pursue this project. Thanks for the code contributors. And my apologies for those of you who were expecting a release.

Random password generation using Commons Lib 0.1.1

A tutorial on generating random password is added to the Wiki.

Commons Lib 0.1.1 Released

WizTools.org Commons Lib project has released 0.1.1 version. Usually a library providing common functionality needs to be extensively documented with API document availability. But I have not been able to document this library much. Probably I will correct this in later versions. This library is now used in many WizTools.org projects, as well as in many commercial projects I am involved in.

Date Arithmetic Tool

What date is 2010-02-15 plus 165 days is? In the standard input of this tool give:

2010-02-15 + 165d

to compute the date. Download from here.

Bulk Mailer Perl Script

By accident I came across a site which archived one of my older scripts. This is a Perl script which I wrote and used during my college days to send Newsletters to my friends. Brought back sweet memories of those days :-) Now I have repackaged and committed it in the WizTools.org mini-projects repository. This will ensure its continued development and maintenance.

Download release 1.0.

WizTools.org commons-lib has a new home

WizTools.org commons-lib has a new home: http://wiztools-commons-lib.googlecode.com/. The source is hosted in a mercurial repository.

Regular Expression Tester 0.4.0

On the night of 31st December 2009 I released a new version of Regular Expression Tester. The previous versions of the tool did a search of only the first match of the RE pattern. The new version corrects this, and displays all the matches in the input text.

Download.

Regular Expression Tester Updated

Version 0.3.0 of RegularExpression Tester has been released. This version eliminates the need for the "Match" and "Clear" button. The regex pattern matching happens as you type. This I found considerably improve my productivity. Screenshot:



Download. To run this:

$ java -jar re-test-0.3.0.jar

Digest Hex Compute Tool

It is become a kind of standard to store hash (digest) of application user passwords in the database encoded as hex string. The proliferation of this technique can be identified due to the PHP functions like md5() and sha1(). When debugging login-problems of such applications, I always used to write a PHP file for computing the password when comparing/updating it with the DB stored hash. I found this difficult. So I developed this tiny tool which does the computation:



Download.

Regular Expression Tester

We are pleased to announce the addition of new tool to our family of developer productivity tools: Regular Expression Tester. Download version 0.2.0 [7.7kb download, executable jar].

The Great Wall: New micro-blogging project started

We are pleased to announce the initiation of a new micro-blogging software written in Java with MySQL backend: The Great Wall. This is being developed with the help of Arun Jeganath. We are aiming at late January 2010 for the first release for this project. Wish us luck!

jEdit macro to compact code

I have published a new jEdit Macro to compact code into to single line. This works on C-derived languages, and can also be used to compact CSS.

I developed this for creating a bookmarklet with single-line JavaScript.

For a complete list of jEdit macros published by WizTools, visit this Wiki.

Mac OS X edition of RESTClient available

Thanks to the latest committer of RESTClient @pilaftank, we now have a Mac OS X edition of RESTClient (with Mac compatible UI and key binding) for download.