Create and populate your database independent of the db server using ant, dbunit and hibernate
Database creation is such a common task that you must have some scripts and tips and tricks at hand, in order to have it done as quickly as possible.
Cursor disappears in Firefox
Firefox has this annoying problem of the cursor caret becoming invisible sometimes. For example, when showing up a div, the textboxes inside that div don’t have the cursor.
My experience with web services with Spring, Axis, XFire
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.
Cryptic fault when trying to call an XFire SOAP service using a SOAP client generated with Axis
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.
Spring and Tiles – presentation tier in http://www.123urban.ro
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.
Ant task for JavaScript compression
By compressing javascript files page loading time is significantly reduced.
Online AJAX-based dictionary
Similar to Google Suggest, the AJAX dictionary will provide instant word definitions as you type, or, in case no matches are found, similar words.
Eclipse Java Autocompletion Not Working
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.
Apache Derby versus Hypersonic SQL
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.