Category: Frontend technology
In Java code you have to use arrays a lot if you want to pass a variable number of arguments to a method. The main method is an excellent …
Knowing that I will not be the only one posting on these features in the Java Tiger release here are some observations I made while running some tests. I …
Craig McClanahan of Struts and JSF fame has started his own Blog. Let us add it to our roll..
XSL-T transformation for Oracle developers. When transforming XML with XSL-T stylesheets you should consider the performance of your transformation. Analog to tuning the Oracle database, XSL-T transformations can and …
It looks like trying to use Struts’ nested indexed properties in a form with table-layout, with every line (a few formfields) as an editable separate entity, has driven a …
Today I visited Oracle Open World in Amsterdam, here are some of the points I picked up. In the “Oracle Application Server 10g Technical Overview” session David Keene gave …
XDoclet is a tool that proclaims the DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) principle: you code everything in one file once, as opposed to the practice of modern software development, where …
Yesterday a presentation was given on unit testing during an Amis (Web) Knowledge Center meeting. The aim was to introduce the JUnit framework and related technologies such as DbUnit …
In HTML it is possible to define an accesskey for a control. For example if you want to have a button which the user can click using the hot-key …
Today I tried to put all my biases (I’m a j2ee developer) aside, and had a look at HTML-DB. “Oracle HTML DB is a declarative web-based application development environment …
Basically, the recipe for using image buttons using the Struts tag library can be found on this page at j2ee.lagnada.com and this excerpt uit Ted Husted’s book Struts in …
After my post on HTML forms yesterday I was fooling around with the fieldset and label tags. Both seem quite usefull! But Internet Explorer is really quite bad at …
Allthough not earthshaking there is a nice article on the devshed about formatting HTML forms. Click here The highlights for me are the tabindex, the accesskey and the fieldset. …
I expected multiple-level nesting with the <logic:iterate> tag in Struts to be difficult, but on the contrary it turned out to be an almost trivial exercise.
If you want to see the power of Cascading Styles Sheets at work, Check out this site. It randomly generates styles to give the website a new “skin”. Just …
I was working on a Ant build file which includes a doc task generating the Javadoc for our project. Running the task from the command line worked just fine. …
The Eclipse webtools subplatform is live, with two initial code submissions from Lomboz and IBM. More info here. The submission by IBM is looking _really_ good: it’s like a …
Yesterday I started research into the current state of affairs with regard to coding standards for J2EE development. We are looking for an up to date set of low …
On Tuesday we had a very good session with the Knowledge Center for Web & Java on ANT, the Jakarta “make”-tool. We started with the usual roundup of everyones …
6 juli 16.30 – 20.00 Deze KC avond staat in het teken van Ant. (Another neat tool). Ant is een tool die het mogelijk maakt om op platform onafhankelijk …