maven: add resources to ear
When building ear for weblogic you’ll probably want to add a custom weblogic-application.ear to the ear. This file should be in the META-INF directory of the ear next to the application.xml. To...
my jstl frustrations
the in-container jstl interpreter functionality is great. And where there are greats things there are also less great things. Some of my frustrations on jstl: no way to cast objects. In some...
maven and jetty for quick dev deploy (2)
See previous post for more on general maven-jetty-plugin info. This time I’ll explain how to get all this to work in eclipse. Wouldn’t it be very easy to be able to execute...
maven and jetty for quick dev deploy
Jetty is a java powered lightweight servlet container. It can be used as an embedded container bringing webapps closer to desktop applications. But that’s another story. Here I will quickly explain how...
maven and tiger
By default the maven compiler plugin assumes you’re working with 1.3 compatible sources. So tiger (java 1.5) sources will throw an UnsupportedClassVersionError. The solution is to configure the maven-compiler plugin in your...
how to tell browser not to cache documents
I had to find a way to make sure the browser doesn’t cache PDF documents on the local file system. IE for instance downloads a copy towards C:/Documents and Settings/userDirectory/Local Settings/Temporary Internet...
hibernate: once set up you’ll love it
Hibernate is lovely… it needs a little more attention to set up but once that’s done no other persistence framework will beat it. So let’s go over the setup steps here. I...
Spring Interceptors
Interceptors are very useful to intercept changes in your web application. Think of switching language, changing user id, … Before Spring you would probably implement this using a filter. Spring has a...
subversion setup
This is a quick subversion setup. really quick because to be honest it’s my first time. Normally I only get the repository url and an account, setup done for me. Start by...
mighty maven
You read my previous post on SCM? Then we can continue by telling you more about maven. A great page to start is the maven project home page. For the quickies there...