Beware MacOS X Java developers

May 13, 2006 by Stephan Schmidt

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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.

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mozkit

May 14th, 2006

This article may help ease your pain…

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

stephan

May 14th, 2006

Thanks I consider that with my next MacBook.

Olli

May 29th, 2006

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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