Monthly Archives: March 2004

re: Why Do Java Developers Like to Make Things So Hard?

Posted on March 31, 2004 by ajohnson

James Turner, a committer on the Struts project and a Senior Editor at LinuxWorld Magazine, wrote an article for the magazine a couple days ago that caught the eye of a couple bloggers (Beattie, Colburn). There are a bunch of … Continue reading →

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External Applications & Java’s Runtime.exec()

Posted on March 23, 2004 by ajohnson

Follow up to the last entry on Java & PGP, I found this article on Java World entitled “When Runtime.exec() won’t” that made a couple of great points. First, in reference to the 2 methods available to developers working with … Continue reading →

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Java & PGP

Posted on March 20, 2004 by ajohnson

One of the Java projects I’m working on required that the application encrypted certain pieces of information (not files, but strings) using PGP, and from what I can tell, there aren’t a whole lot of libraries and/or examples out there. … Continue reading →

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Scripting in ASP with Java

Posted on March 15, 2004 by ajohnson

I’m working on a project right now that involves a store written in Java using Struts and a sister site written in ASP. One of the features of the store requires that the sister site use some logic written in … Continue reading →

Posted in ASP, J2EE, Software Development | 15 Comments

Using iText PDF & ColdFusion

Posted on March 14, 2004 by ajohnson

Mike Steele sent me an email in reference to an article I wrote for the ColdFusion Developer’s Journal a year or so ago. In the email, he mentions that he is trying to use the iText Java-PDF library with ColdFusion … Continue reading →

Posted in ColdFusion, J2EE, Software Development | 33 Comments

Cool URIs don’t change…

Posted on March 4, 2004 by ajohnson

Tim Berners Lee wrote this essay years ago (1998 in fact), and it’s a good one. In short, the message is this: … many, many things can change and your URIs can and should stay the same. They only can … Continue reading →

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IE Greeting Card Exploit Post Mortem

Posted on March 4, 2004 by ajohnson

From the interesting people list back a couple weeks ago, an analysis of an E-card hijack spam. I downloaded a.exe out of curiousity, and have been analysing it. The file contains a number of very interesting strings, which make it … Continue reading →

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Struts & Java Tips: Issue #1

Posted on March 2, 2004 by ajohnson

The “Issue” thing is a joke. I don’t know what else to call this. I’ve been thoroughly enjoying the last couple weeks I’ve been spending with Struts, I learn something new everyday. One of the things that I happened upon … Continue reading →

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Web Server Log Parser

Posted on March 2, 2004 by ajohnson

From Dominic @ fusetalk, the IIS Log Parser tool: Log Parser 2.0 is a powerful, versatile tool that makes it possible to run SQL-like queries against log files of almost any format and produce the desired information either on the … Continue reading →

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Tomcat Session Replication/Clustering

Posted on March 1, 2004 by ajohnson

I’m considering whether or not to use the new session clustering capabilities of Tomcat 5. Unfortunately there isn’t much information out there on the subject. I found a short mention in this “What’s New in Tomcat 5” article on OnJava … Continue reading →

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