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Good Question, Is Google Using GWT?

Published 1 year, 9 months ago

Eric asks a good question, too bad no one has commented… It would be nice to hear of a large scale app written with GWT, even better if there happened to be an open source one we could all get a look at.

Frustration with Struts 2 Wildcard Mappings

Published 1 year, 10 months ago

So, I finally got around to porting my little sample issue tracking app to Struts 2. I was looking forward to removing almost all of the mappings from my xwork.xml (now struts.xml) thanks to the new wildcard mapping functionality. However, I’ve run into a problem due to the fact that you cannot control the case […]

Integrating Hibernate Validator with WebWork

Published 2 years ago

I’ve been using WebWork for a little side project and the only thing I’ve been missing from my full time work (technology-wise) is Hibernate Validator. WebWork’s visitor validation is fine (see this article for an example of it in use), but I’ve grown to really like having the validation rules right there in the class […]

Good riddance JRun, Hello… Tomcat?

Published 2 years, 2 months ago

It’s been a long time coming, but we’ve finally migrated off of JRun! And yes, as unsexy as it is, we’ve moved over to Tomcat. Our application has been running on JRun since Y2K and it has been showing it’s age in recent months. We’ve had lots of issues with the server hanging, and apparent […]

Rails Migrations and Multiple Developers

Published 3 years ago

I’ve been reading a lot lately about the migrations feature of Ruby on Rails. Generally this looks like really cool functionality. However, one thing has been eating at me ever since I had my first glimpse at it:
How does it work in a multi-developer environment?
Now I know this has to have been considered in it’s […]

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