Adobe Reader Error "adobe failed to connect to a dde server"

I met a problem that my Adobe Reader cannot open pdf files, and pops up an error: "adobe failed to connect to a dde server"

To solve this, simply open control panel->Adobe Reader->Modify, use repair model to fix the problem.

Strange spark problem: "Error:scalac: error while loading ..., Missing dependency bad symbolic reference..."

I am very new to spark and try to develop it on Windows using IntelliJ. This kind environment is not typical environment for developing spark because normally people use Ubuntu + IntelliJ.

I copied a famous example from spark official example SparkPi, when run it in idea, it pops an error:

I did a lot of search but no luck there. Finally I find out that the problem is caused by my pom.xml settings.

 

    org.apache.spark
    spark-core_2.10
    1.4.1
    ${myscope}

The reason of doing this is because we don't to package spark-core jar file in our finally package, but when specify it as provided it cannot run locally. The details can be check in another post of mine:
IntelliJ "Provided" Scope Problem

The solution is that:
1. keep the ${myscope} value here
2. add pom.xml a variable called myscope

      compile

3. In maven part, keep the setting
clean install -Dmyscope=provided

Now the spark object can run successfully and also package as we expected.

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GitHub for Windows through Company Proxy

GitHub is a very famous tool but I am just starting to use it... Shy... Because we come from ancient times in source codes management: ClearCase, SVN, (TeamForge), now it's time to embrace GitHub.

I have downloaded a windows version. GitHub for Windows... Maybe the best way is to use the command line which I will investigate later.

This is the tool GitHub for Windows, which can be obtained here: https://git-scm.com/download/win

The problem is that we are under company proxy and there is no option to change it. Luckily there is a solution.

1. Open the file
C:\Users\YOURNAME\.gitconfig

2. Add there two lines
[http]
proxy = http://YOUR_COMPANY_PROXY:8080

[https]
proxy = http://YOUR_CONPANY_PROXY:8080

OK, all set!


By I feel using command line is more convenient.

1. clone

git clone REPOSITORY URL
for example

2. update
1) cd to the folder for example Spark
2) git pull

For the turorial of Git, we can check the great website, many thanks to the author!
http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/

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IntelliJ "Provided" Scope Problem

IntelliJ is such a famous tool that lots of users saying that once you get used to it, you can never come back. To a Eclipse user, there is some learning curves to use IntelliJ. Today I met a interesting problem that exist only in IntelliJ.

The background is that I moved my project from Eclipse to IntelliJ, the project runs very well in eclipse but I used the same way to run in IntelliJ (short as idea), it throws the error like below:

I searched a lot and finally find that it's because the storm package in pom.xml is specified as provided.

 org.apache.storm
 storm-core
 0.10.0-beta1
 provided

The reason the package must be specified as provided is that the storm cluster already contains the storm jar file, if our package contains the storm jar file again, it will cause conflicts.

But according to the definition of provided from maven website: https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html

• provided
  This is much like compile, but indicates you expect the JDK or a container to provide the dependency at runtime. For example, when building a web application for the Java Enterprise Edition, you would set the dependency on the Servlet API and related Java EE APIs to scope provided because the web container provides those classes. This scope is only available on the compilation and test classpath, and is not transitive.

This is why there is no problem when compile but has problems during runtime.

Here we come to a dilemma: when run it in IDE (intelliJ) we need to scope to be compile, but when package it to deploy on cluster, we need it to be package scope. One way to solve this is each time we change the scope, but this is very annoying. 

So here is the solution:

1. Set the scope to be a parameter, such as ${myscope}  

 org.apache.storm
 storm-core
 0.10.0-beta1
 ${myscope}

2. create a mvn task
expand Lifecycle, right click an item for example install, and choose create Practise...

then specify command line: clean install -Dmyscope=provided

With this, it's running very well and also can package with provided scope!

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Good tool Java Decompiler - View source codes from jar or .class file

One problem of using SVN is that you might meet conflicts and end up losing your own codes. I met the problem once: I did an update, and there are conflicts. I tried to revert the update but found out that the revert is reverting my local change but keep the update! Now I lost my local development work...

Luckily I have a compiled jar file which I build last time, but they are all .class files. How to view the original files?

Java Decompiler comes to the resue!
http://jd.benow.ca/

Use this tool to open a jar file or .class file, you will see all the contents:
It's structured and clear! Thanks to the author!

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