Changing HTTP Listener Port on Oracle Express 10g

The oracle installer does not give you the chance to change the port of the HTTP Listener. I installed my Oracle 10g Express Edition under Windows and my Tomcat Servlet Container already uses port 8080.
So I decided to change the port of the Oracle HTTP listener doing the following with SQLPlus:

C:\>sqlplus / as sysdba

SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Sat Sep 10 18:49:14 2006

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Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Express Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production

SQL> exec dbms_xdb.sethttpport(8081);

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

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Professional looking Java Swing Look and Feel

Digging around for an improved Look and Feel of one of my Java Swing applications I stumbled across the Substance Look And Feel project on java.net.
These skins and themes are awesome. I have never seen a better looking UI like this. Go and check it out. You will be impressed!

JBoss 4.2.x and JSF applications

I upgraded from JBoss 4.0.4.GA to 4.2.2.GA and was not able to successfully deploy a JSF application into the container.
Various error messages were thrown by the container, one of it telling to have a closer look into the JBoss Wiki to determine the cause of deployment failure when using JSF application.
The problem was, that my application is bundled the MyFaces API and Impl core packages but JBoss uses the java.net JSF implementation.
If you still would like to use the MyFaces implementation you have to add the following lines to your web.xml file:

<context-param>
     <param-name>org.jboss.jbossfaces.WAR_BUNDLES_JSF_IMPL</param-name>
     <param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>

The full article is available under the following URL: http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JBoss5AndMyFaces

Comparison of different Repository Managers

Deng Ching wrote a good blog entry about existing repository managers. Repository managers have become a big part in software development. Maven without a good organized and well structured repository would be useless. Besides Maven, repository managers can also be used by Ant or Ivy.
Please note that Deng Ching is a developer of Maven Archiva. So his comparison might be not as neutral as you might expect.