Testing web services early on

I have been into situations in a project where the web services was ready for consumption but the client not ready yet to consume them! We then used http requests to test the functionality, which is always a pain. I wished there was some tool that, provided with a url, took care of placing the http request, and showing the result. I found such a tool recently and it's really good at the job. It can be found here. So, get going with testing your web services early on!

Cheers!

Technical Stuff

DOS
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Command to iteratively copy files within a directory structure

for /D %f in (*.*) DO copy /Y %f\*.jar c:\MyLibs

PS: %f should be replaced with %%f, inside batch files.

E.g. In batch file , to do something for each directory within a given directory,
for /D %%f in (%base_dir%\*) DO


Hibernate
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Good Hibernate associations tutorial http://www.xylax.net/hibernate/