cum grano salis — nobody likes a clever bastard

I have finally had some time to sit down and figure out why submitted form data was disappearing when there were form validation errors. I tracked it down to facelets.BUILD_BEFORE_RESTORE, yet another one of Facelets completely undocumented features.
You may be wondering why I had it enabled in the first place, since I didn’t read the [...]

Being TopLink’s mutant flipper baby, it’s no surprise that EclipseLink’s (2.0.0) support of MySQL is substandard. If you have been using the two of them together, you may have noticed that LOBs don’t really work quite right. Some of the blame is probably for MySQL, with its multiple length-specific LOB column types, but it at [...]

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 [...]

After a few days of wasting my time with ICEfaces, I switched to RichFaces because at least it tries to integrate with other frameworks without having complete diarrhea for a code base. Seriously, it looks like ICEfaces was written by a bunch of fucking monkeys drunk on gin. Have some pride in your work, assholes. [...]