Category Archives: SoftSlate Commerce

Unleashing Envers

Posted on May 25, 2016 by David Tobey

Why Audit Logging? Audit logging in the database may be one of those things that you have to experience to appreciate. Some of our clients have audit logging set up and others do not. When you’ve never experienced it it … Continue reading →

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How We Implemented Lucene Fuzziness and Wildcards

Posted on July 2, 2013 by David Tobey

In version 3.2.8, we’re adding a couple configuration parameters to our Advanced Search (ie, Lucene) implementation in the Enterprise Edition. I have to say, I’m always impressed with how easy it is to use Lucene’s API. It is surprising how … Continue reading →

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3.3.0 Sneak Peek

Posted on June 12, 2013 by David Tobey

Here is a sneak peek at the upcoming changes on slate for the next SoftSlate Commerce release, version 3.2.8. Area Version Description developer 3.2.8.1 Support for optionally using Google Guice to inject business object and DAO dependencies developer 3.2.8.1 The … Continue reading →

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Automated Functional Testing with JMeter

Posted on August 11, 2011 by David Tobey

Jmeter bills itself more as a load testing tool, but we’ve used it extensively for functional testing as well. For us, functional testing amounts to pretending you are a (single) user hitting the application with various requests on the way … Continue reading →

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Apache mod_cache in the Real World

Posted on July 22, 2011 by David Tobey

I thought I’d share our experiences implementing Apache’s mod_cache. We wanted to implement caching of product and category pages for the SoftSlate Commerce Java shopping cart application of one of our clients. The product and category pages of an ecommerce … Continue reading →

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