Sakai

Sakai Spring Maven Archetype v1.0 

Submitted by Mike Jennings on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 06:43

I am happy to release version 1.0 of the Sakai Spring Maven Archetype.  This maven archetype is modeled after and inspired by the Sakai Wicket Maven Archetype created by Steve Swinsburg.  This archetype will generate a very basic Sakai tool for a user to get started with.  The tool is currently setup for Sakai 2.7.0.  The goal of this tool is to provide a easy way for users to get a basic project setup and running quickly that uses Spring MVC and has a example of the

How To Configure Sakai SQL Logging with log4jdbc 

Submitted by Mike Jennings on Mon, 08/22/2011 - 07:40

This is how I setup Sakai so that all SQL calls to the database can be logged via SLF4J with the log4jdbc library.  The reason that I want to do this is because Sakai heavily relies on Hibernate to generate calls to the database.  While hibernate does have the ability to write out the sql to the log4j log, the sql is only the prepared statement that is being called and has no information about the parameters being passed to the prepared statement.  This is where the beauty of log4jdbc c