TECH BLOG
First thing to note is that, this being my first contact with web services (SOAP and WSDL), it took me quite a lot of time (almost five working days) to learn about the technologies involved and try to implement and publish a web service in my application.
I encountered a problem when trying to call an XFire SOAP service using a SOAP client generated with Axis, and after finding the “solution” I decided to share it with you so you won’t have to repeat my steps.
Presentation tier in 123urban – Spring comes to the rescue as usual with its embedded support for Tiles. Basically, the only setting is to change your viewResolver in your -servlet.xml from JstlView to TilesView.
By compressing javascript files page loading time is significantly reduced.
Similar to Google Suggest, the AJAX dictionary will provide instant word definitions as you type, or, in case no matches are found, similar words.
One day, after starting Eclipse 3.2, I noticed astonished that the autocomplete feature for Java classes did not work anymore. On pressing Ctrl+Space the popup list did appear, but it was always empty. This was a time of great mourning, since autocomplete is one of the killer features of Eclipse.
There are several limitations and problems of Apache Derby as noted in the previous post, but with Derby, it seems that you’re still way better than with Hypersonic SQL.
For those of you that didn’t hear about it yet, Apache Derby is a Java relational database engine that can both run as a network server or embedded in a Java application.
After getting a lot of requests on high load time of the spreadsheet widget, I decided to create a custom dojo build.
