If you haven’t played with Eclipse WTP and you do web development… then today is your day to start. I’ve been using it for about a month now and I’ve gotta say I am totally impressed with it. The WTP is a set of plugins for Eclipse 3.1 that gives you very neat stuff to make web development that much easier (things like syntax colouring and command completion for HTML, JSP, JSTL, Javascript, CSS). Anyways, [...]

For a while now I’ve been wanting a way to test out java.util.regex.Pattern regexs. So with a little bit of DWR and a one-line implementation using String.matches()… I’ve developed a java.util.regex.Pattern Ajax Tester – possibly the world’s most trivial Ajax app! Type in your patterns and click for red or green pattern matching goodness. At least it saves recompiling . Hope you all have a sensational easter. If you’re keen to explore religon a little [...]

There is so much to love about DWR and Spring integration. Just configure up your dwr.xml and tell it which spring beans you want to expose for Ajax goodness, and which methods you want to expose on them. In preparation for a talk I’m giving Wednesday night to the Canberra JUG, I’ve added Ajax goodness to my little Spring-powered Sudoku solver. And it was a total snack. You can double click on individual cells to [...]

I admit it. This week is the first time I’ve ever used java.util.logging. I’ve pretty much always used commons logging and log4j for all my logging needs since one of them was already a dependency in a supporting library, and I’ve never really had a reason to look elsewhere. Till now… I’ve had reason to work on some code that integrates into Websphere’s Member Manager stuff. This code is way down in the WAS stack, [...]