Poor Jim Smith

poor jim smith. the drones are out in force. follow us to a new world.  free ourselves from the the two party drone propanganda. Jim Smith recognizes all your words. there is a hate. there is a distrust. here has now begun...

JBoss 7 and Quartz

Had to get an application which uses Quartz running under JBoss for XA Transactions.  Anything that updates a table and then schedules a job has to use XA Transactions or you will run into data consistency problems when things go bad.  I have had a hell of a time.

When i ran my code under JBoss, it would create jobs in Quartz but they would not be persisted to the database.  This same code, ran just fine under Tomcat, although it had the data integrity hole of not using XA Transactions.

What i found is, to make things work in JBoss, you have to set a flag in your Quartz properties file:

org.quartz.jobStore.dontSetAutoCommitFalse = true

After setting this, my jobs actually persisted!  Hope this helps someone.

How many people took a pay cut?

In 2010 inflation was around 1.6%. If your benefit costs like healthcare went up you need to add that percentage to the inflation rate. So 1.6% + your benefit cost % increase = x %. If your pay did not go up over that x%, you took a pay cut. Seems most every year, most people are taking a pay cut.

Company x says times are tough and they can not afford health care costs so they are cutting benefits and increasing the amount employees need to pay. They are also cutting 401k matching contributions. Oh and by the way, raises have to be very small because times are tough. Now you say, well if the company is struggling/losing money, OK, i will do my thing for the company and help out.

But...what if Company X reports year end results and ends with billions in profits? Seems odd the company is shitting all over its employees doesn't it?