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10-24-2002

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I'm a no administrator (though I'm trying to become one), but I too have a snippet to share...

Right from my college days I was exposed to UNIX systems and even if I was not from comp sci background was attracted to the philosophy of the system as thought of by its designers - Thompson, Ritchi, McIlroy and all...

So when I went to my first job in a consulting company.. I found an atmosphere where my European client had a production and test UNIX boxes which were connected to IBM SNA / CPI-CC to his SAP R/2 production system. I was very happy that I can make use of my UNIX skills. Yes indeed my first assignment was to write automation shell scripts which post/extract EDI messages to/from SAP - UNIX. These scripts used to call C programs using CPI-C interface.

I also learned CPI-C programming, which involves writing your own C code including the CPI-C interface headers and sources - in all there were 8 .C sources and 4 headers, requiring makefiles to do the compilation. There were production C executables doing daily updates and extracts to SAP.

One day I was making some compilation on the test box, while I was monitoring the production box as a privileged user in another terminal. I inadvertently executed a makefile with the same name on the production box which luckily didn't overwrite any existing executable. But my heart stopped thumping, as I had no idea what the script did.. but I had to spend extra hours that day reading the whole script checking for paths and date/time of modifications...

from that day on I was extra careful ascertaining which terminal I'm using for prod/test boxes...

Vishnu

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POM_XPATH_INJECT(7)						Java Packages Tools					       POM_XPATH_INJECT(7)

NAME

       pom_xpath_inject - inject XML code into POM file

SYNOPSIS

       %pom_xpath_inject XPath [XML-code] [POM-location]

DESCRIPTION

       This macro patches specified POM file appending some code as childreen of all XML nodes described by the XPath expression.

       XPath is an expression describing a set of XML nodes in the POM file to which child code is to be appended. It must be a properly formated
       XPath 1.0 expression, as described in http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/.

       POM location can be either a full path to the POM file, or a path to the directory containing pom.xml. If POM location is not given then
       pom.xml from current working directory is used.

EXAMPLES

       %pom_xpath_inject pom:project "<packaging>war</packaging>" - this call sets packaging of POM in current working directory to war.

BUGS

       POM files use a specific namespace - http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0. Currently this namespace needs to be explicitly specified in all
       XPath POM macros by prefixing all node names with pom:.

AUTHOR

       Written by Mikolaj Izdebski.

REPORTING BUGS

       Bugs should be reported through Red Hat Bugzilla at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/.

SEE ALSO

       pom_add_dep(7), pom_add_parent(7), pom_add_plugin(7), pom_disable_module(7), pom_remove_dep(7), pom_remove_parent(7), pom_remove_plugin(7),
       pom_set_parent(7), pom_xpath_remove(7), pom_xpath_replace(7), pom_xpath_set(7).

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