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 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...

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...

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...