Dazed & Confused

Blah, multipage forms suck. Alright, I’m not making it a lot easier for myself by insisting on using DispatchActions, but hell, it should support it.
Problem 1 – One action mapping can only have one input. This doesn’t matter when everything looks fine, but suddenly you get a validation error, and Struts tries [...]

Wireless Toolkit 2.2 is in the pipeline. Download it here. Looks like SUN has gotten their act together and included simulation support for JSR-82 (Bluetooth). Now you only have to code your way around all the bugs that are in the J2ME implementation on the phones.

We’re going to do unit tests on some parts at work. This should make it easier. I’ll have to check it out later.
Via java.no.

At work I haven been pounding out Struts based pages lately. We are building a registration system basically, with some intrisic rules for submitting data and checking with external systems. From my work with Struts at UKA I knew multipage forms were a common problem with Struts. Henning hacked his way around it some way, [...]

Surfing through Brooch i found this site with Java design patterns. It relates most of the GoF book to links describing it in java, and with additional information. Great resource.

Grady Booch is continuously compilin a Handbook of Software Architecture.

We’ve been running FindBugs at work lately. It is a good tool for finding most of the obvious stuff, and the less obvious. Found a great article on IBM DeveloperWorks about static code analysis. It also contains links to other good articles regarding the subject. Worth the read.

Which one are you? Most of us are probably a bit of all of them. Check it out here.

Good description here.

Jetspeed2 is JSR-168 compliant. Took eXo for a spin a little while ago, but never got round to deploying it completely. I’ll be lookin to create a small private portal in the near future, so I might give Jetspeed a try.