Update: This post has gotten a lot more attention than I expected and I just want to say to those reading: Thanks for stopping by! On a recent project, my team evaluated several web frameworks for an upcoming web application. We chose The Play Framework. I was very attracted to its simplicity and the rapidity with …
Update: Node.js for Windows has been improved since this post, so this information is obsolete. Last time I checked I was able to run CoffeeScript the same on Windows as I do on Linux and OSX. If you’re using the CoffeeScript compiler for Windows (By Alexey Lebedev) you’ve probably noted a lack of a -w or “–watch” argument. …
Windows CoffeeScript Auto-Compiler using Groovy and JDK 7 WatcherService Read More »
In December 2009 I talked about getting a RESTful web service up and running using Spring 3.0.0.RC3. Since then Spring has had 3.0.0.RELEASE and 3.0.1.RELEASE. One of these releases caused my code example from this post to fail, so I’ve re-worked it and tested with Spring 3.0.1.RELEASE. You can get the new code here. The changes were fairly …
Last week I was looking for a Hudson plugin that would hot deploy a web application to a remote container. In the process I managed to find several other useful and, admittedly, fun plugins. Findbugs Plugin The Findbugs plugin was an excellent addition to our build process. In case you’re not already familiar with Findbugs, it is a …
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Update:See this post for an updated code example that works with Spring 3.0.1.RELEASE. If you’re reading this then you’re probably aware that the new Spring 3.0 release will have REST support (If you’re not familiar with REST here is a nice intro). In this article I’m going to describe the basic steps required to quickly get a RESTful XML …
According to Sun, the controversial language feature, Closures, that was previously removed from the JDK 7 feature list has now been added in again (via). I’m looking forward to the JSR on this one. While I can’t see it being more elegant that using Scala, it will definitely make certain algorithms much nicer to implement in Java.
There are so many useful Java frameworks and utilities out there that are free and open source that it boggles the mind. Here are a few of my recent favorites. Feel free to add your own to the list. There are many many more that I did not add to this list because they are …
For a project recently, I had the pleasure of working with both DBUtils and DBCP (Database Connection Pooling) from the Apache commons libraries. Both of these libraries together helped me to quickly create a simple, extensible DAO layer for my project. Both libraries include some great default features that I used right out of the box, without any configuration …
Found this by accident and thought it was hilarious.
The 1.6 release of the JDK included a new java.io.Console class, which adds some new features to enhance and simplify command-line applications. Notably, Console includes a method specifically for reading passwords that disables console echo and returns a char array; both important for security. Scenario: Getting Username and PasswordGetting a user’s username and password is probably one of the more common …