Category Archives: Technical stuff

If you use Apache’s Ant to create archives (jars or wars), you most likely include a manifest(.mf). Well in the past when I’ve needed to note the dependencies on other jars, I’ve would have to come up with some rubbish … Continue reading →

I’ve been a loyal Resin user for about 3 years now. For a time, it was one of the fastest servlet containers. Well, I have an web-app, made up of 3 wars. It uses a number of open-source, 3rd party … Continue reading →

If you use Hibernate and Spring, but no JTA or Seam, and you have to subscribe to the session-per-request-with-detached-objects model, you may have run into the following situation: having to reattaching detached objects to the current open Hibernate session. Even … Continue reading →

I started looking at RIA development not too long ago. So, as always, the only obvious next step was to build an RIA app. I didn’t actually start from scratch… I have an app I am developing using WebWork-2.4, Hibernate-3.2, … Continue reading →

Adobe’s Flex 2 seems like the realization of some great RAD concepts. I’ve seen this for MS related products: Access, VB, etc. However, it’s my first time seeing it for a clean rich Internet application UI. The fact that you … Continue reading →

In Joel Spolsky’s most recent post, Bribing Bloggers, he states that even if a blogger discloses that they have received the item they are blogging about as a gift, that: “the only conclusion I can come to is that this … Continue reading →

Some classes we make may require a proper hashCode and equals method written. Especially if they will be placed in a Collection. Before, when a person who was too “lazy” (or as I like to call it, being a genius) … Continue reading →

JSR 303 seeks to define a meta-data model and API for JavaBean validation. “This API is seen as a general extension to the JavaBeans object model, and as such is expected to be used as a core component in other … Continue reading →

How to be a Junior Developer Forever: part 1 I thought it was right on the money… If you want to grow, ya might want to read an API or man page once in a while.