JUnit 4.5.0 vs. @BeforeClass

The JUnit (4.5.0) documentation states that if you annotate a static method with @BeforeClass, it will be called after any similarly annotated methods in superclasses. This normally works, but if the method in the subclass happens to use the same name as that in a superclass (setUpClass for example), the superclass method will not be invoked first.

Protovis

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JsTestDriver

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SQL Server vs. Identity-only Tables

Using SQL Server, if you want to insert a row into a table that contains only an identity column, you can do it like this:

INSERT INTO mytable DEFAULT VALUES

This circumstance is very unusual, but I have run into it twice... and I forgot how I solved it the first time.