Finding differences in two Open-Office-Writer documents

If you write documents and get feedback from different persons on different versions it is a great pain to merge the documents and changes together. Microsoft Word has a functionality that works quite well. But the function to compare documents in Open Office Writer has  never work for me the way I expected. Fortunately OO […]

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OSB: Using current Eclipse version for development

Oracle provides some packages to install an development environment with Eclipse. Unfortunately these packages contains only the over three year old 3.7 (Indigo) release of Eclipse. Even more worse: With SOA-Suite 12c comes the current version of OSB and the development environment is migrated to the JDeveloper. There will be no update for the Eclipse […]

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OSB: Java Callout with XML input and output parameter

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Editing build.prop on Android L

A week ago Google provided the new developer preview version Android L for Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 for download. After reading the positive feedback to the new Android L version (XDA Android “L” Developer Preview Discussion) and discovering SuperSU 2.01 (SuperSU 2.01 Lets You Root the Android L Developer Preview) and Titanium Backup (Experimental […]

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OSB: Deleting corrupt projects

Usually it is no problem to delete OSB projects from the server. This can be done by the sbconsole. But today we had a problem with a misconfigured OSB project.  There was no possibility to modify the project, because activating the changes always resulted to a error message. Deleting was not possible and overwriting with […]

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