cum grano salis — nobody likes a clever bastard

Possibly a testament to why people hate the JCP, that style of bureaucracy, and why almost everything that isn’t touched by it actually gets things done, I ran into what I would consider a blocker when it was requested that I have the currency symbol and percent signs optional for form inputs using f:convertNumber and [...]

If you’ve succumbed to not being able to get Spring Web Flow to work with your other framework of choice (I am only using ICEfaces as an example because its fresh in my head) and have to figure out how to reimplement row selection for tables and such, since you can’t readily use SWF’s OneSelectionTrackingListDataModel [...]

I’m currently working on a project that has given me the lovely opportunity to revisit the holy hell that is Tomcat. It’s fine and all, but it can be a real bitch to you. So I have a fine mix of JPA 2 (via EclipseLink 2.0.0), Spring 3.0.0, and AspectJ 1.6.6 running on Tomcat 6.0.20. [...]