This post concludes the example from the previous article. Today, we take a closer look at the client-side, namely the use of tags and how to perform an efficient input validation. The whole example can be downloaded from github. At this point we have all the configuration in place and we are ready to register…
In this post we take a closer look at the basics of a popular MVC framework Apache Struts. Today, we explore the server-side and discuss the concept of actions and validation. As usual, an example app is provided and you are more than welcome to code along. Update: Please note that this post has been…
In the previous post we experimented with JavaServer Pages and created a simple web app. Lazy coders as we are can’t help, but automate as much as possible in order to avoid tedious manual steps. HtmlUnit is very well suited to work in tandem with JSP technology. I value the framework for its ease of…
In this very first post of the JEE Series we create a simple web app based on JSP and JavaBeans. Bring an IDE of your choice and give it a swing. Let’s generate a new project using the maven web archetype: [bash] mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.example -DartifactId=simple-web-jsp -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp -Dpackage=com.example -Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT [/bash] Next, we are going to…
I am starting a new series discussing various JEE technologies. Feel free to fork me on GitHub, blog posts are to follow. There is a couple of issues I have always had with the Java EE tutorial. First of all, it ages too fast. JEE covers a broad range of technologies and keeping all the material…
I’ve just added Fabric SDKs to my Android project and the initial impression is overly positive. However, during the setup, I ran into a few time consuming issues. Enhanced with a better understanding of how it all fits together, I have to admit that most of the troubles were totally avoidable. In this post, I would like to walk…