Archive for 'Code'
Getting into the Swing of Things
23 July 2010I guess I have always been a Web programmer, and not a Java programmer. My first “dynamic” web pages were generated on an IBM Mainframe by a COBOL program and then placed on the web server by an FTP step in the JCL. Later on, I discovered the joys of Perl and CGI, and eventually, [...]
Adding an Icon to Your Bookmarklet
16 July 2010The other day I needed to create a bookmarklet, which was an interesting exercise in and of itself, but once I got all of those issues worked out, I wanted to make it pretty by adding an icon. Apparently, this is not something easily accomplished, and there is little information out there that I could [...]
It’s Joda Time!
15 July 2010For the longest time now I have been WWWAAAYYY too busy to even think about doing any blogging, but hopefully that is all starting to change now. Things are starting to settle down a little, and I should have a wee bit more time. Speaking of time (nice segue, no?), I have been having fun [...]
Spring 3.0.0 and Maven
17 December 2009First of all, it’s always best to read the instructions. Second, if you were successfully using the last Spring 3 release candidate in your Maven project, you cannot simply pull up the pom.xml in an editor and change all “.RC3″ to “”. Actually, to be completely accurate, you can do that — you’ll just get [...]
It’s official: Spring 3.0.0 is now final
17 December 2009No more release candidates; you can now download and start working with the real deal: It’s here just in time for the holidays! Arjen Poutsma has just announced that Spring 3.0.0 is now final and Juergen Hoeller has blogged about the features in the release. Download | Documentation | Javadoc API | Change Log | [...]
Spring 3.0.0.RC3 is now available
4 December 2009I missed this earlier in the week, but Spring 3.0.0.RC3 came out on Tuesday: It’s getting closer. Arjen Poutsma has just announced that Spring 3.0.0.RC3 is now available. This release candidate contains lots of fixes to issues raised by community members. Download | Documentation | Javadoc API | Change Log | JIRA Thank you to [...]
Spring 3.0.0.RC2 is now available
13 November 2009Check it out: Spring 3.0.0.RC2 is (tentatively) scheduled to be released today! Regards, Sam p.s. if you check JIRA now, you’ll notice that there are no more open issues on the RC2 road map. I did a “change all <version>3.0.0.RC1</version> to <version>3.0.0.RC2</version>” in my pom.xml, but that was a little overzealous, since this announcement does [...]
Build a RESTful Web service using Jersey and Tomcat
15 October 2009Unfortunately, I have been WWWAAAYYY too busy to even think about doing any blogging lately, but I have been having a lot of fun trying to figure out how to make this work with Spring 3.0.0RC1: Summary: Representational state transfer (REST) was introduced in early 2000 by Roy Fielding’s doctoral dissertation. However, in the Java™ [...]
Look-up Tables: Service configuration
4 June 2009Yesterday, I tossed out a copy of my new LookupTableService without going into much detail about the use of the service or how to go about setting it up. Today, I’d like to correct that and add a little context to the story. Basically, I wanted to be able to get to table entries, not [...]
Look-up Tables: LookupTableService
3 June 2009Most of my usage of the Look-up Table service that we created has been on the client side of things, but ocassionally, I will have a need to reference a look-up table back on the server, or in a stand-alone batch job. To accommodate that, I could utilize the HttpClient library and access the data [...]
