Category Archives: Java

Anything related to the Java programming language and platform

ActiveJDBC: an implementation of the Active Record pattern for Java

Posted on July 27, 2010 by ron

Igor Polevoy, who I’ve had the pleasure of working with on a couple projects, has just posted his ActiveJDBC project to Google code.  If you work on Java applications that access relational databases, you owe it to yourself to check it … Continue reading →

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Maven and skinny wars

Posted on September 20, 2009 by ron

Maven is a great build system, but sometimes limitations come up that can drive you crazy.  One such limitation is support for building “skinny war” files.  Granted, I don’t think it’s the most common configuration, but for certain types of … Continue reading →

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JSR 303 & Hibernate validation framework

Posted on July 14, 2009 by ron

I was recently looking for a validation framework, and came across the work that has been done lately for JSR 303 (latest version of the spec here). JSR 303 defines a standard meta-data model and API for validation of JavaBeans/POJOs. … Continue reading →

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MyFaces and JBoss built-in implementation

Posted on October 28, 2008 by ron

I’m working on a WebSphere-based application, and need to get it running on my Mac. RAD isn’t available for the Mac, and even if it was, it’s so far behind in Eclipse revisions that I can’t use most of the … Continue reading →

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Handy Java utility: jarexplorer

Posted on December 16, 2007 by ron

Wanted to give kudos to a handy little Java utility I started using: jarexplorer. It’s a Swing-based app that indexes the contents of jar files found in an entire directory structure, and lets you search for classes and files within … Continue reading →

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