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My name is Aaron Johnson and I created this blog both for me (mostly) and sometimes you. I've been saving mydeliciouspinboard.in links here and blogging since 2002. During the week (and at night and some weekends and well.. most of the time), I work in engineering at Jive Software. When I'm not working, I'm hanging out with my amazing wife, ourdinosaurStar Wars loving son and four chickens in the burbs outside of Portland, Oregon.See Also
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Monthly Archives: January 2004
Java Object Caching
I was interested in Java caching techniques a couple months ago (almost a year ago in fact) and looked into the various caching libraries available at that time. Srini Penchikala published an article @ OnJava.com this past December that looks … Continue reading
Posted in J2EE
2 Comments
Superb article on Generics in C# & Java
Bill Venners posted another great article on artima.com, this one the 7th in a series of conversations with Anders Hejlsberg. If you’re not familiar with generics, Anders provides a quick introduction and then dives into explaining how C# generics were … Continue reading
Posted in Software Development
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Struts ActionForm validate() question
I’m trying to setup a simple contact us form that gathers information from a user, checks that the information is valid and then emails the information off to a third party using Struts v1.1, specifically an ActionForm and an Action. … Continue reading
Posted in J2EE
12 Comments
Hibernator
From the Hibernate Related Projects page, Hibernator is an Eclipse plugin for Hibernate. Download and install the plugin and it will automatically generate hbm mapping files from existing Java source files (open up the source in question, then go to … Continue reading
Posted in Software Development
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Hibernate Code Generation
Justin left a comment about various tools for generating Java code from XML. Last week while I was reading about Hibernate I was interested to read that the same files you use to persist POJO’s to a database using Hibernate … Continue reading
Posted in J2EE, Software Development
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Ant & Tomcat Manager on virtual hosts
I’m kicking out a couple freelance projects using Struts and Hibernate in the next couple weeks, this weekend I was fiddling with the Ant build script and I remembered Tomcat Manager App, which allows you to reload contexts while Tomcat … Continue reading
Posted in J2EE, Systems Administration
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.NET, Reflection and multiple assemblies
As part of a project I worked on at Mindseye, I wrote a couple utilities using C# that used reflection to query a given type for the existence of a method and if the method existed, to then invoke the … Continue reading
ColdFusion & log4j
The January issue of ColdFusion Developer’s Journal features an article I wrote on how to integrate ColdFusion and log4j entitled “Integrating log4j and CFMX – An open source Java project gives developers new capabilities”. You can read it here. While … Continue reading
Posted in ColdFusion, J2EE, Software Development, Systems Administration
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Instant Messenging with ColdFusion, Jabber and Smack
I noticed a couple different people wanting information on instant messenging with ColdFusion and then in another place instant messenging with Jabber and ColdFusion in the last couple days (for reasons beyond me) [first on cfguru, then on my blog, … Continue reading
Posted in ColdFusion, Jabber, Software Development
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NAnt build file tips
I found the documentation for NAnt to be lacking in build file examples, especially examples that deal with more than one task or include. If you’re completely new to NAnt, I’d suggest reading the article that Jeffrey McManus wrote for … Continue reading
Posted in .NET, Software Development
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