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Q: Java - Can Hibernate choose between two database configurations in persistence.xml? I have a Java app running on Tomcat 7.0 with Hibernate managing the database.
I need to be able to switch the jdbc.url depending on a system environment variable (or possible another flag of sorts). Ultimately, I would like to be able to deploy a staging and production version of my webapp pointing to two different databases. However, at the moment, I have to physically change the jdbc.url value in persistence.xml and re-save it when switching between configurations.
My current persistence.xml file is:
<persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence"
             xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
             xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_0.xsd"
             version="2.0">

    <persistence-unit name="my_pu" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
        <provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>
        <shared-cache-mode>ALL</shared-cache-mode>
        <properties>
            <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.driver" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
            <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.url" value="jdbc:mysql://my.rds.url.goes.here/mydatabase" />
            <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.user" value="myusername" />
            <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.password" value="mypassword" />
            <property name="connection.provider_class" value="org.hibernate.connection.C3P0ConnectionProvider"/>
        </properties>
    </persistence-unit>

</persistence>

I've read about using createEntityManagerFactory() as an option, but I can't find any clean examples of how to implement this. I'm certain this issue has been dealt with before, but I can't find a clean tutorial or advice.
How can I have my Hibernate switch database configurations without having to rewrite the persistence.xml file each time?

A: A couple of ways to do it, if you use spring or maven in your project, could be:
With maven as your build tool, you can replace properties during build time based on a maven profile - through filtering in the maven resource plugin
If you use spring in your project the PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer can inject the values for you. It can read the values as jvm parameters or from property files. These property files may be put in the tomcat/conf directory so each tomcat knows its own configuration, or you may build all possible properties, select them based on spring profile

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Key Collection: Moschino, Autumn/Winter 1989
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...Footage Referenced Moschino, autumn/winter 1989 Moschino, spring/summer 1994Introduction Franco Moschino reveled in spectacle. His fashion shows were theatrical, entertaining yet thought-provoking, even scandalous, often satirizing...
Global Inspiration: Dries van Noten's Collections
John Potvin
...Footage Referenced Dries van Noten, Spring/Summer 2001 Dries van Noten, Autumn/Winter 1997 Dries van Noten, Spring/Summer 2000Introduction An original member of the avant-garde Antwerp Six, Belgian designer Dries van Noten celebrated thirty...
Decade On the Runway: 1980s
...Footage Referenced Christian Lacroix, autumn/winter 1987 Thierry Mugler, autumn/winter 1988 Body Map, autumn/winter 1986 John Galliano, autumn/winter 1985 Moschino, spring/summer 1988Introduction Many accounts of the 1980s characterize...
Single Object Study: Jean Paul Gaultier's Cone Bra
Barbara Brownie
...Footage Referenced Jean Paul Gaultier, Spring/Summer 1988 Christian Dior, Autumn/Winter 1997Introduction The cone bra, bullet bra, or, sometimes, torpedo bra, first emerged in the 1930s and throughout the next two decades symbolized...
Giorgio Armani: The Milanese Tailor of Elegance
...Footage Referenced Giorgio Armani, Spring/Summer 1984 Giorgio Armani, Spring/Summer 1988 Giorgio Armani, Autumn/Winter 1995 Giorgio Armani, Autumn/Winter 1998Origins Armani along with Walter Albini, Ottavio and Rosita Missoni, Mariuccia...
Norma Kamali, Spring/Summer 1990
...Footage Referenced Norma Kamali, Spring/Summer 1990Introduction Norma Kamali's womenswear spring/summer 1990 collection was shown in Central Park as part of New York Fashion Week. Making a statement against mainstream indoor fashion shows...
Dolce & Gabbana: Sicily, Tailoring, and Heritage on Show
Tiziana Ferrero-Regis
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John Galliano, Napoleon and Josephine, Spring/Summer 1992
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Rightly choosing restraint, Netanyahu shows last thing he needs now is Gaza war
AnalysisRockets were fired at TLV as Hamas leaders met Egyptian team
He's rising in the polls, his rival is making headlines for having his phone hacked, and thus even two rockets fired at Tel Aviv aren't prompting a major escalation
By Avi Issacharoff	15 March 2019, 1:11 pm 9 Edit
Avi Issacharoff, The Times of Israel's Middle East analyst, fills the same role for Walla, the leading portal in Israel. He is also a guest commentator on many different radio shows and current affairs programs on television. Until 2012, he was a reporter and commentator on Arab affairs for the Haaretz newspaper. He also lectures on modern Palestinian history at Tel Aviv University, and is currently writing a script for an action-drama series for the Israeli satellite Television "YES." Born in Jerusalem, he graduated cum laude from Ben Gurion University with a B.A. in Middle Eastern studies and then earned his M.A. from Tel Aviv University on the same subject, also cum laude. A fluent Arabic speaker, Avi was the Middle East Affairs correspondent for Israeli Public Radio covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the war in Iraq and the Arab countries between the years 2003-2006. Avi directed and edited short documentary films on Israeli television programs dealing with the Middle East. In 2002 he won the "best reporter" award for the "Israel Radio" for his coverage of the second intifada. In 2004, together with Amos Harel, he wrote "The Seventh War - How we won and why we lost the war with the Palestinians." A year later the book won an award from the Institute for Strategic Studies for containing the best research on security affairs in Israel. In 2008, Issacharoff and Harel published their second book, entitled "34 Days - The Story of the Second Lebanon War," which won the same prize.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center right) meets with senior security officials at the IDF's Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv on March 14, 2019. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)
Hard though it may be to believe, even the firing of two rockets at Tel Aviv from Gaza, by Hamas, has not dragged Israel and the Gaza terrorists into war or even a major escalation, at least as of this time of writing. Israel's Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who so prides himself on his "Mr. Security" credentials, has preferred to swallow the bitter pill of Thursday night's rocket fire and preserve relative calm.
To the credit of Netanyahu and the government he heads, they proved Thursday night and Friday morning what they have often claimed: That the importance of Sderot is no different from that of Tel Aviv, and that what holds true for one of those cities holds true for the other. If somebody had said a few months ago that rocket fire at Tel Aviv would pass with only minimal Israeli military retaliation, Sderot-style, they would have been accused of being delusional.
But this is an election period. Netanyahu's position in the polls is getting stronger. Blue and White leader Benny Gantz is making headlines for having his phone hacked by the Iranians. The last thing Netanyahu needs is war with Gaza.
One can only wonder what might have happened if one of the security networks of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas had launched two missiles (by mistake) at Ben Gurion Airport or Tel Aviv. The government might well have called unanimously for a major operation in the West Bank to demolish the terrorist infrastructure. But facing off against Hamas, and given the remarkable covenant that has been created between the terror group and the Netanyahu government, the prime minister (rightly) prefers restraint rather than being dragged into another conflict with unforeseeable consequences.
An explosion caused by Israeli airstrikes is seen over Gaza City, early Friday, Friday, March 15, 2019. Israeli warplanes attacked terrorist targets in the southern Gaza Strip early Friday in response to a rocket attack on the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
According to the version put out by the IDF on Friday morning, the assessment is that Hamas fired the two rockets at Tel Aviv in error. (With a previous launch at Beersheba last October, it was said to be lightning that caused erroneous fire.)
According to the Hamas version, Thursday's rockets were launched by a field operative acting without approval from the higher-ups. Plainly, this claim of an ill-disciplined field activist should raise skepticism and many questions, but on the Israeli side there is an understanding that the Hamas leadership is not interested in an escalation right now, nor in signaling some kind of warning with rocket fire at Tel Aviv.
Screen capture from video showing the Tel Aviv skyline on March 14 as rocket warning sirens blare after the launch of two rockets from the Gaza Strip (IDF)
At the very time the missiles were being fired, Hamas leaders in Gaza were meeting with a delegation of Egyptian intelligence officials, headed by Ahmad Abdelkhaliq, who is responsible for the Palestinian file. The likelihood that Hamas leaders wanted to launch missiles at that moment, of all moments, is remote. Hamas is urgently trying to attain economic concessions from Israel, not provoke it. It was only hours earlier that the dire economic situation in Gaza was publicly underlined, when Hamas police officers violently confronted dozens of demonstrators who had gone out into the streets to protest the poverty and hardship in the Strip under Hamas rule.
According to Palestinian and Egyptian assessments, any eased economic restrictions and concessions that Israel might allow will not dramatically change the situation in Gaza. But they might help to create a slightly more positive mood for the population, and perhaps even optimism as regards to the period after Israel's elections in April.
What the Egyptians are trying to do is find a way to bring the Palestinian Authority back into Gaza somehow, in order to expedite some kind of rehabilitation of the Strip. Ironically, as the events of the past few hours indicate, it may well be that interaction aimed at reconstruction in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, even without the PA, may not be a mission impossible.
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The last few days we went to a business trip to Chisinau (Moldavia's capital) and Iasi (a town in the north of Romania).
Chisinau was somehow different than i expected it to be. Lots of parks, large streets and a general relaxed atmosphere. First night, after checking in at the hotel, we took a couple of hours to walk and see everything we could from central Chisinau. The Puskin park was charming, with lots of statues everywhere, and the central street full of shops.
We stayed at Codru, a hotel right across the big park, and the apartment was something spectacular. A huge living and dining room, with classic furniture and a big sleeping room with jacuzzi and sauna in the bathroom. So i could not resist to organize a small "photo shooting" near the white columns or at the desk that was used even by Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet President, when staying in the same apartment at that hotel.
Iasi was exactly as i remembered it from my childhood (i used to stay there, at my grandparents, during summer holiday). We did a small tour of monasteries and interesting churches, and we ate at Casa Bilius, a fancy restaurant near the Bothanical garden.


I have my fax machine plugged directly into my Ooma per the Knowledgebase article. The first time I tried to fax, my fax dialed - the other one answered and my fax machine went from "dialing mode" to "sending mode" but the fax failed. Then, I tried using *99 with a pause of 4 seconds before the fax number. Now my fax machine dials - the other machine answers - BUT my machine never shifts from "dialing mode" to "sending mode." So the other machine is ready but mine doesn't think it has been answered and so does not start sending. In this case I get "comm error."
I don't think I am getting to the point where I could have a sending glitch because my machine never "hears" the answer of the other fax and does not start sending.
Here is what I found. I turned off ECM (setting compatibility to "BASIC") and my machine also has a mode called "OVERSEAS" which is meant to help deal with fuzzy lines. This is a Brother MFC-845CW. However, Brother reports that ECM will be used regardless of configuration if sending a color fax. So faxing color is probably not going to work.
I was able to send a fax but I think the actual reason is for other than turning off ECM. I was trying to send a fax on Friday evening. Running VoIP Speed Test, I found that my internet quality had severely degenerated: I was getting as high as 307 ms JITTER and 2.8% packet loss. So a fax, I don't think was going to work no mater what.
My fax went through easily on Saturday morning and I found that JITTER was .09 ms and PACKET LOSS was 0%. So I was able to fax repeatedly without troubles this morning.
Is it so that even if I wasn't watching movies my neighbors all were on Friday evening?
Time of day may be important when sending faxes.
If you have cable internet, you share the "pipe" with everyone in your neighborhood and possibly several neighborhoods. Evenings are when the "kids" are most likely to be on the internet.


Changed the way Better DS3 registered for HID device notification updates with the operating system. This should fix issues where Better DS3 wouldn't detect a newly attached controller when you started minimized to tray.
Keep up the good work. It's really appreciated!
Finally! I can now ditch motioninjoy. Keep up the good work, thanks.


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The Gathering 2016 First Review
It was The Gathering weekend that had it all.
Congregated at Venue Cymru, Llandudno, North Wales, Alarm fans from all over the world expecting a trip down memory lane, were caught by surprise on the opening Friday night when Mike Peters strode purposefully onto the stage at 9.00 PM and delivered an opening set of brand new material that was of the highest order and potentially some of the best material the man has ever written.
It was the scene setter for another incredible weekend of human drama that unfolded over a three day period.
Watching Mike Peters on Friday night without a group, but playing as a one man band utilising both acoustic and electric instruments, a bass drum and even a few bars of piano is a sight to behold and when you understand that he is doing all of this while still undergoing chemotherapy treatment, makes for an awe-inspiring insight into the strength of the human spirit. For over two hours, he kept the audience spell-bound with his delivery of powerful, lyrically deep new songs and then a thoroughly modern recreation of a set list performed by The Alarm at a historic concert broadcast around the world via satellite from Los Angeles in 1986. This time in 2016, Mike Peters was able to deliver the power of the band alone, utilising the same technologies and musicianship that is at the heart of modern groundbreaking performers like Ed Sheeran and more recently, Jack Garret.
Of course, Mike Peters isn't doing it all alone, every word of the songs are sung at high volume by the vast crowd that is jammed inside the venue. During moments in such songs as Blaze Of Glory, Walk Forvever By My Side and other standards from his extensive songbook, it's clear where Mike get his inspiration…. his audience… and the life they have lived together as part of one generation.
Here we have an artist and audience of one, one family, united at The Gathering. The fans are as much a part of this event as Mike and The Alarm, there are people from Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Australia, Canada, the Far East and the United States. All descending upon North Wales to celebrate the music, life and times of one man and his band.
Despite his struggle with leukaemia, Mike Peters (56), looks fit, sharp and is able to perform at full throttle and in powerful voice for over 5 hours across two nights, but what people who only see Mike and The Alarm on tour don't see is, the detail and dedication from the team Peters surrounds himself with who all help to make The Gathering the unique event it truly is.
Mike's entire family and friends are at the centre of things with Jules Peters (his wife), orchestrating the event on every level with brother Steve overseeing stage production.
There are people who were involved in the very earliest of Alarm days enforcing the one to one connection of the weekend, people who I suspect had more to play in the history of the band than photos of just four lads who shook the world can attest to. There is Gareth 'Gaz Top' Jones who shared a London flat with Mike Peters back in 1981 and helped pack all 1000 of the original Unsafe Building singles. There is Richard Jones who runs the Mastermind Quiz and, (as the first ever official fan of The Alarm – when they were called Seventeen), knows more about Mike Peters and The Alarm than I dare say Mike knows himself.
Alongside Richard, is Davey Garnett-Hughes who in 1986, flew to LA for the Spirit Of '86 Concert at UCLA (celebrating it's 30th Anniversary in 2016), and found himself being interviewed by MTV. Longstanding fans like Lily Elsayed from New Jersey, USA (who runs The Official Alarm Facebook page), celebrated her 50th Birthday and even had first generation Alarm guitarist Dave Sharp perform at her Off-Gathering party. There was a video premiere of new music from Mike Peters one time writing partner Eddie Macdonald who has formed a new band called Small Town Glory. It was refreshing to see all aspects of Alarm history acknowledged and celebrated in an open forum. In fact, the overriding feeling from the Saturday afternoon convention was that this event is very much about being in the present as reiterated by Mike Peters himself during his one hour Q&A and masterclass session where fans of a musical persuasion joined in for an ensemble performance of 'Spirit Of '76'. For some of the people on stage you could see that dreams were indeed coming true.
Later that evening, as the countdown clock ran down from 10-0, Mike Peters took to the stage and declared 'All great rock and roll starts with One Guitar', the stage curtains fell and Mike Peters & The Alarm were in full flight for a 2:45 hour set of serious rock and roll. The temperature was so hot that steel could have been forged. How the band kept the tempo and intensity up I'll never know, but the pressure was released slightly when Mike appeared on the centre stage with keyboard player Mark Taylor (the two longest standing members in Alarm history), performing with just voice and piano. Mike spoke with grace about his hero David Bowie and the affect of his recent passing from cancer, dedicating The Rock and Roll to him, it was poignant moment in itself that was made even more so when after a flourish of the final chords of Life On Mars from Taylor, Mike Peters began the opening lines of Starman and pictures of Bowie himself appeared on a huge projection screen above. Tears fell and emotions came flooding out as the rest of the band joined in from the MainStage. Alarm guitarist James Stevenson (who has been playing with Bowie producer Tony Visconti in Holy Holy), took over and delivered an emotive solo that honoured both Bowie and Ronson before the band came together as one on the main stage and took the Gathering to a closing finale that was punctuated with a million playing cards falling through the sky during closer 'Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke?'.
After the show, there was no Elvis has left the building, Mike Peters was once again among the throng posing for photos and signing pictures as the audience danced in the Love Hope Strength lounge high on life and rock and roll.
Sunday morning rolled in and there was Mike Peters with his ever faithful Jules by his side, launching Snowdon Rocks for June 18th 2016 and delivering touching and open speeches about the state of his health (very good), and the forthcoming '351120; appeal which has already raised over £176,000 pounds to help other cancer sufferers and families in troubled times. It is this act of selfless good will that really embodies the qualities that have made all the music we have heard this weekend so relevant. It is timeless and of the moment, for and of the people but even after all of this, there was still enough energy in the Peters' petrol tank to stay stood on his feet for another three hours posing for photos and signing records and CD's for every single person who wanted a moment and each and every individual greeted with a smile and a mark of respect.
This was a pivotal Gathering. Historic even, certainly in the annals of Alarm history, but as everyone filed out past me all I heard was talk of the new songs, the new songs.
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Power restored to Peninsula customers
Utility spokesman Joe Molica said that all but 30 customers in Menlo Park had their power restored by about 1:30 a.m. today, and that the remaining customers are expected to regain power at about 2 p.m., when the final repairs are completed.
The "vast majority" of customers affected, mostly in the Menlo Park and Portola Valley areas, regained power Monday afternoon. PG&E crews continued to work on repairs overnight, Molica said.
The outage began when one of the utility's transmission lines "tripped offline" at around 11:40 a.m.
Molica said that likely happened when another wire came into contact with the transmission line.
Transmission lines, he explained, carry power from the generation source to substations, which then "step the power down" and distribute it to customers via distribution lines.


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Q: Windows 7 for Cloud Databab I'm interested in trying Cloud Datalab.  The first step seems to be "Run Cloud Datalab locally" which requires Docker ver 1.12.0 or later which requires Windows 10 pro or enterprise.
My system in Win 7 Pro.  Am I correct that I am out of luck here?

A: Run Cloud Datalab locally is one of 3 methods for running Cloud Datalab. You are correct that this specific method on Windows requires Docker for Windows (1.12.0 or later), which is only possible with Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise (as indicated on the Docker for Windows installation page).
Run Cloud Datalab notebooks on Google Cloud Platform is an alternate method which allows you to set up and run Cloud Datalab entirely on Google Cloud Platform, removing the requirement for having Docker on your local machine. As described in the installation steps, use an SSH tunnel to connect to the Cloud Datalab Google Compute Engine virtual machine.

A: Indeed you cannot do that directly on Windows 7. In my team we decided to set up Ubuntu on a Virtual Box and work from there, since this was free and easy to set up. That way you can run it locally and you are still inside Windows 7. From there you can follow directly the Docker & Datalab installation guides.