Coeus Interactive Debugging Techniques – presentation notes

Interacting Debugging Techniques for Coeus, using Eclipse and Tomcat
Presentation notes – from the Kuali Coeus User Conference 2011

Why would you want to do that?

  • Understanding the architecture
  • Greater speed in solving problems
  • Quickly test changes, fixes, or enhancements!
  • Assist in making Institution-specific changes

    Inspiration

  • Frustrated with lack of documentation
  • Needed to understand the architecture
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  • Upgrading from Apache FOP 0.20 to FOP 0.93

    I’m the process of upgrading from Coeus 4.3.7 to version 4.4.3. Coeus version 4.4 now uses Apache FOP 0.93. This is a major upgrade from FOP 0.20.x. Coeus uses FOP transform data into reports, through the use of XML and XSL. I’ve performed the same upgrade for another client, several years back, in an dental-insurance application that managed / generated benefit documents. Due to the changes in FOP, it is necessary to rework some of the Customized reports (expressed as XSL).

    These elements rendered fine in Apache FOP 0.20.x, but are show-stoppers in FOP 0.93 and later.

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    Connecting Ruby On Rails (on Redhat Linux) to SQL Server

    Setting up Ruby On Rails and SQL Server 2005 Database connections on Redhat Linux Following are the setup notes for how I got Ruby On Rails (running on RedHat Enterprise Linux) to connect with Microsoft SQL Server. This is based on the Ubuntu Platform-install instructions for activerecord-sqlserver-adapter Install the Redhat Packages unixODBC unixODBC-devel Download, compile, and install the stable version of FreeTDS Edit the configuration for FreeTDS…. we need to tell it about the SQL Server hosts and ports we’re

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