Paul Osborne - Java/PHP Developer

Monthly Archives: April 2009

Getting the local host name using Java

A quick example of how to get the name of the localhost using the Java InetAddress class.

String hostname = null;
try {
InetAddress localhost = Address.getLocalHost();
if (localhost != null) {
hostname = localhost.getHostName();
[...]

Configuring a Local CVSNT Repository and Eclipse

Configuring the Eclipse IDE to use a local CVS (CVSNT) repository on windows isn’t an entirely obvious procedure since CVS and Eclipse are geared to working on Linux/Unix. It is actually quite simple to do but if you miss a couple of points you could spend hours fiddling with it without any luck.
The following article [...]