Code Monkeyism

Programming is hard by Stephan Schmidt

May 13, 2006

Beware MacOS X Java developers

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.

About the author: Stephan Schmidt is currently a team manager at ImmobilienScout24 in Berlin. Stephan has been working as a head of development and CTO. He has used a lot of different technologies in the last 20 years including Java, Rails and Python. Stephans main field of interest is maintainablity and productivity in software development. Want to know more? All views are only his own.

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Comments

mozkit

This article may help ease your pain…

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

May 14th, 2006
stephan

Thanks I consider that with my next MacBook.

May 14th, 2006
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.

May 29th, 2006

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