At least all of those as stupid as I am. When developing cintoo Messages I got biten (again!) by the MacOS filesystem not being case sensitive. All tests worked fine but on the integration server (thanks pulse guys for providing your software, it helps) which is running on Linux the tests wouldn’t work. My bundle files were called test_de_de.properties which worked on MacOS X but not on Linux, where they have to be called test_de_DE.properties. Well well, write once … ;-)

Of course I recognized this after a long debugging session which even drove me to download the JDK source. Sigh.


3 Responses to “Beware MacOS X Java developers”  

  1. Gravatar Icon 1 mozkit

    This article may help ease your pain…

    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25316

  2. Gravatar Icon 2 stephan

    Thanks I consider that with my next MacBook.

  3. Gravatar Icon 3 Olli

    Well back in the days of MacOS 10.1 it was not a good idea to install your system on a UFS drive. But hey, 10.5 is on the horizon.

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