Category: Web HTML5 CSS3
On OTN there is an excellent online seminar (replay) on the TopLink Object-to-XML support. This feature, which will be available in the upcoming 10.1.3 release, allows converting XML files …
In the whitepaper titled Modeling Stateful Resources with Web Services by Ian Foster et. al. the latest developments with respect the modeling of state with web services are very …
During development it is sometimes necessary to able to run your webapplication under SSL. To obtain a test certificate from verisign can sometimes take a little too much time …
In one of the projects I’m involved in we have to make use of specific Oracle JDBC features. The application runs on Tomcat 5.0.27 and connects to the database …
Last year I spent a lot of time on a project using Eclipse as IDE. I like it very much. I allways call it a real developers tool. It …
In Struts, JAAS, Tomcat: getting acquainted (part 1) it was discussed how to employ JAAS authentication for custom and/or legacy realms under Tomcat. As authorization was left unaddressed, we …
In Hibernate + Middlegen Roundtrip Development applied it was shown how to generate Hibernate POJOs + mapping files from a legacy (SQL server) database. As soon as business objects …
The Java Authentication + Authorization Service (JAAS) provides a standard API for making non-standard (i.e. custom) realms available to your application server, see e.g. this article on JavaWorld. To …
In this post I collect references to interesting articles on a variety of topics – Java, SQL, Business Intelligence, Web Services, HTML/CSS, JavaScript – that I have come across. …
This evening I successfully re-deployed my application to JBoss-4.0.0. It used to be deployed under JBoss 3.2.4 using the Lomboz plug-in. Although the JBoss-IDE plug-in involves a bit more …
This brief article by Frank Manno from the Developer Shed describes a pretty, elegant way to create strings that act as hyperlink – where not just the string but …
From Eclipse News: JBoss Joins Eclipse, Releases Application Server 4.0 Open-source firm JBoss recently unveiled the release of Application Server 4.0 and detailed an alliance with the Eclipse Foundation. …
Some time ago I wrote a post on HTML Buttons which are accessable using keyboard shortcuts. (alt-s for a save button for example). In the solution I proposed 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 …
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 …