New Anime Series- Accel World

First Episode Review for: Accel World

Summary : A social out caste at a school (mentally as well and physically) who’s only ability lies in the virtual world that is an every day part of school, is taken under the wing of a popular girl and introduced to “acceleration world” which lets him bring those virtual skills to the real world, but is there a dark side to this gift?

Animation : A strange style, sort of computer generated crayon, not sure it would go well in a lot of anime but with this subject matter it goes very very well

Plot Potential: Pulling the plot down to bare basics does not give me much hope, but it seems to have been perfectly implemented, which prenty of growth all round

Characters: The main character is a BIT tooo wimpy for my taste (needed a good slap), but the other characters were all done well, and despite only speaking about two words of Japanese the quality of the voice actors felt rich and vibrant.

Music: good general background music and a powerful end tune

Reminds me of: hmmm nothing springs to mind, lets say a mecha/tec version of yu yu hakusho

Overall: A excellent start to the new Anime season, and definitely on my repeat list

Disclaimer: These are mini reviews of anime’s that are fresh out in Japan and are not licensed in the UK, buy them once they have been licensed or at the very least buy the merchandise, remember if the anime makers make a loss, THEY WILL STOP MAKING ANIME!!

Italy Top Tip

Top Tip

Sites with new landscaped pitches are best reversed onto so when you start to sink you can drive off, and then pitch on the service road.

Ciao darlings we are now in Italy at a small site in the western dolomites at Monte Tellago. The trip over from Austria is a good run over the Brenner Pass. We used the ordinary roads as you need to purchase a pass for the Austrian motorways and we are over 3.5 ton so it’s quite expensive. It is about 120 miles from Innsbruck to Torento and the valley is quite narrow so hence the motorway for most of the distance is either on concrete stilts or through tunnels.

We had a good lunch stopped at this very high class restaurant. Pommr Frittes in plastic cartons. But probably the last chips before Pizza land (Italy)

One little bit of trouble in a small village with narrow roads, one street was a wing mirror to narrow. (but at least it just folded in)

Finally I would like to thank San Fran Keith and Mark for naming the Egyptian goose and the Mandarin duck thanks guys it makes us feel we are not alone out here.

Like of the day

Seeing my first black squirrel

Dislike of the day

Realizing that I know the difference between a wood anemone and a wood sorrel also a cowslip and a ox slip (am I being brain washed?)

Strawberrys

Like of the day

Strawberries at 65p a large punit

Another day another country Austria. We are in a small site in a town called Reutte on our way to Innsbruck as you can see from the pic there is plenty of snow still on the hills.

We have come as far south in Germany as possible to lake Constance (Bodensee) We are in a town called Uberlingen on the shore of the lake.

It is a beautiful clean tourist town with a backdrop of snow covered mountains on the southern side. the weather is a lot better so I am giving my varicose veins a bit of fresh air

Like of the day

Italian lady who gave us a parking ticket for the stellplatz saveing us 10 euro

The river Moselle as it is called in France and Luxemborgh and mosel in Germany. Starts life in France then becomes the boarder between Luxemborgh and Germany. Then mianders to join the Rhein at Koblenz.

In this area it is a large river being used as a major transport link taking large barges of 2500 tons carrying mainly coal and sand

The main agriculture in the moselle (mosel) valley is wine growing, and every piece of available land is growing vines, even in Luxemborgh. This time of year they are freshly pruned waiting for the sun.

I found most interesting the little mono rails that took people up and grapes down the steep valleys. They look like some thing out of a Indiana Jones movie.

We had a good walk from Enkirch to Trarbach and back up the other side of the river, catching this little ferry back to the stellplatz.

The weather is still rubbish so we are going to head south to the Swisse boarder.

Like of the day

The best thing about a camper, you can set off in a morning change your mind 3 times and end up on a fantastic pitch that ticks all the boxes

Top Tip

When using a German camper service point for the first time make sure your water pipe connections are in good conditions as the water pressure is very high and you could get covered in cold water. (and the locals find it quite funny)

Classic Quote

The measure of a mans riches is the fewness of his wants

Loader constraint violation on JAVAX webservice (client)

OK, you have done a nice simple Web service client, it runs fine in your tests, you bung it on JBoss and when ever you trigger it you get something like this

java.lang.LinkageError: loader constraint violation: when resolving method “javax.xml.ws.Service.(Ljava/net/URL;Ljavax/xml/namespace/QName;)V” the class loader (instance of org/jboss/classloader/spi/base/BaseClassLoader) of the current class, com/sun/j2ee/blueprints/opc/powebservice/XYZService, and the class loader (instance of ) for resolved class, javax/xml/ws/Service, have different Class objects for the type javax/xml/namespace/QName used in the signature

You might miss the “loader constraint violation” part and think that its to do with the QName, or that your @WebServiceRef annotation is not working, well don’t bother, you have a clashing .Jar library, and its most likely going to be “stax-api” (which Jboss loads before you even get there with your app), so you will want to looking in your Lib directory ( which will be in the “WEB-INF” directory in your war file or build target directory ) of your packaged app to see if the little devil is in there, if you’re dealing with your libs manually then you are going to just have to remember why you put it there (although http://www.findjar.com/ can be a lot of help there), if you are using maven then the following command will tell what jar’s come from which libs

mvn dependency:tree

This gives you the following kind of display

[INFO] [dependency:tree {execution: default-cli}]
[INFO] com.firstbest:fbs-mobile-proxy:war:0.1
[INFO] +- asm:asm:jar:3.3:compile
[INFO] +- org.apache.ant:ant:jar:1.7.0:compile
[INFO] '  - org.apache.ant:ant-launcher:jar:1.7.0:compile
[INFO] +- com.sun.jersey:jersey-servlet:jar:1.12:compile
[INFO] '  - com.sun.jersey:jersey-server:jar:1.12:compile
[INFO] +- com.sun.jersey:jersey-json:jar:1.12:compile
[INFO] '  +- org.codehaus.jettison:jettison:jar:1.1:compile
[INFO] '  '  - stax:stax-api:jar:1.0.1:compile
[INFO] '  +- com.sun.xml.bind:jaxb-impl:jar:2.1.12:compile (version managed from
 2.2.3-1)
[INFO] '  '  - javax.xml.bind:jaxb-api:jar:2.1:compile
[INFO] '  '     - javax.activation:activation:jar:1.1:compile
[INFO] '  +- org.codehaus.jackson:jackson-core-asl:jar:1.9.2:compile
[INFO] '  +- org.codehaus.jackson:jackson-mapper-asl:jar:1.9.2:compile
[INFO] '  +- org.codehaus.jackson:jackson-jaxrs:jar:1.9.2:compile
[INFO] '  +- org.codehaus.jackson:jackson-xc:jar:1.9.2:compile
[INFO] '  - com.sun.jersey:jersey-core:jar:1.12:compile
[INFO] +- log4j:log4j:jar:1.2.16:compile
[INFO] +- junit:junit:jar:4.10:test
[INFO] '  - org.hamcrest:hamcrest-core:jar:1.1:test
[INFO] +- taglibs:standard:jar:1.1.2:compile
[INFO] +- org.apache.ws.commons:ws-commons-util:jar:1.0.1:compile
[INFO] '  - xml-apis:xml-apis:jar:2.0.2:compile (version managed from 1.0.b2)
[INFO] - org.apache.neethi:neethi:jar:3.0.1:compile
[INFO]    +- wsdl4j:wsdl4j:jar:1.6.2:compile
[INFO]    - org.codehaus.woodstox:woodstox-core-asl:jar:4.0.8:compile
[INFO]       - org.codehaus.woodstox:stax2-api:jar:3.0.2:compile

You will now need to put in exclusions in your pom.xml to stop the jars that you don’t want from being loaded in, here is an example

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
    <artifactId>jersey-servlet</artifactId>
    <version>1.12</version>
    <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
            <artifactId>stax-api</artifactId>
            <groupId>javax.xml.stream</groupId>
        </exclusion>
    </exclusions>
</dependency>

You might have to add a number of these and check the dependency:tree each time to make sure another does not pop in, in order to get them all.

This SHOULD fix your problem, but sometimes you either want your version of the Jar file to be on the server or you simply cant seem to get rid of a jar field in your build, you can tell jboss to use your jars over its own one by adding a jboss-classloading.xml file in src/main/webapp/WEB-INF directory. and adding the following lines to it.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<classloading xmlns="urn:jboss:classloading:1.0"
              export-all="NON_EMPTY"
              import-all="true"
              parent-first="false">
</classloading>

That should sort it out.

Old Comments
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##### Ben Poole(23/04/2012 23:11:54 GDT)
This sort of shyte is why we love Java so.

No. Really.

##### Mark Myers(12/05/2012 13:23:16 GDT)
tell me about it