Tag Archives: java
Java Readability
Re: The Positive Legacy of C++ and Java: “Java got this balance correct – Java might be verbose and lack lots of ‘cool’ features, but it’s really easy to figure out what some random code is doing.” (Via infoq) I … Continue reading
Cocoon Settings
I’ve been looking quite extensively at the cocoon-spring-configurator, trying to work out how to make it fit into our preferred java webapp config scheme: context-params. By default, cocoon-spring-configurator just reads Properties files. The complete list of property files that cocoon-spring-configurator … Continue reading
UrlEncodedQueryString
UrlEncodedQueryString represents a www-form-urlencoded query string in Java. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve needed this in the past. Perl has the lovely URI::QueryParam. In fact, I’ve got a fairly close cousin of this class in use at … Continue reading
Eclipse Update Failure
I’ve just hit the “update everything” button in my Eclipse install. All seemed well until I restarted it and got a message about a shared library not being found. Looking in Console.app showed this lovely little line: 09/02/2009 14:33:07 [0x0-0x1ef1ef].org.eclipse.eclipse[43353] … Continue reading
JSPs in Maven
Every now & then I need to whip out a quick webapp. Normally, I would prefer to use something like freemarker or velocity. But JSP is standard, and it’s everywhere. Despite it’s inability to be secure, it is convenient. And … Continue reading
tclogview
I had a quick thought this morning: I’m always logging in to servers to nose around in their logs. So why not a quick webapp to view the logs? I’ve done this before, but not in Java. So, I wrote … Continue reading
Exception Handling Whinge
I hate this. try { // … some xml parsing stuff … } catch (XmlException e) { logger.error("Can’t parse XML", e); } Why? Because it found a problem, and then carried on as if nothing happened. Which leads me to … Continue reading
maven in anger
I’ve ranted about Maven before. As it happens, I still stand by much of what I said. But, I’ve come to realise how superficial these criticisms are. Earlier this year, one of the libraries that I have a hand in … Continue reading
NetBeans Correction
I’ve just been reading Top Java Developers Offer Advice to Students and noticed something Tor said, which addressed one of my issues about NetBeans. Thanks, Tor! For example, in NetBeans, you don’t have to write the left-hand side in assignments … Continue reading
NetBeans 6.5
Today NetBeans 6.5 got released. Congratulations, guys! I’m primarily an Eclipse user1, but I keep hearing about NetBeans through the Java Posse and heck, I even subscribe to the NetBeans podcast to try and keep an eye on what’s up. … Continue reading