The somewhat functional way of thinking involved with jOOX’s XML manipulation cries for an additional API enhancement simply supporting XSLT. XSL transformation has become quite a standard way of transforming large amounts of XML into other structures, where normal DOM manipulation (or jOOX manipulation) becomes too tedious. Let’s have a look at how things are done in standard Java
0 replies - 1281 views - 02/05/12 by Lukas Eder in Articles
A summary of the advantages of Tapestry over Struts.
0 replies - 1228 views - 02/04/12 by Howard Lewis Ship in Articles
If you’re testing a web application, you can’t go far wrong with Selenium WebDriver. But in this web 2.0 world of ajax-y goodness, it can be a pain dealing with the asynchronous nature of modern sites.
0 replies - 1626 views - 02/03/12 by David Green in Articles
jOOX aims at increased ease of use when dealing with Java’s rather
complex XML API’s. One example of such a complex API is Xalan, which has
a lot of nice functionality, such as its extension namespaces. When you
use Xalan, you may have heard of those...
0 replies - 1017 views - 02/02/12 by Lukas Eder in Articles
Tapestry 5.3.1 is out in the wild ... and if Tapestry is to
stay relevant, Tapestry 5.4 is going to need to be something
quite (r)evolutionary.
0 replies - 1464 views - 02/01/12 by Howard Lewis Ship in Articles
Java XML Binding (aka JAXB) is part of
many applications since it provides a convenient API to
marshall/unmarshall Java to/from XML.
Like so many area, the devil is in the detail, like when one has to
unmarshall a JAXB-incompatible class. Such classes come...
3 replies - 2050 views - 01/30/12 by Nicolas Frankel in Articles
If you remember from my previous blogs, I’m covering different
approaches to parsing XML messages using the outrageously corny scenario
of Pete’s Perfect Pizza, the pizza company with big ideas. In
this story, you are an employee of Pete’s and have...
1 replies - 2389 views - 01/21/12 by Roger Hughes in Articles
I’m currently working on a Xtext-based editor for Google’s BUILD language, as described in our Google Engineering Blog.
BUILD files do not contain an extension, they are simply named “BUILD.”
This naming convention make working with Xtext quite...
0 replies - 1826 views - 01/13/12 by Alex Ruiz in Articles
A common desire in Tapestry is for Zone updates to automatically
include a throbber (or "spinner") displayed while the Ajax update is in
process. This is, unfortunately, a space where the built-in Tapestry
5.3 Zone functionality is a bit...
1 replies - 896 views - 01/13/12 by Howard Lewis Ship in Articles
So the other day I was working away on some rather tricky rules for validating an incoming identifier code. Like
999392304II+TJAJEIAJTI901119
or
EPFOOMNNVLLALOWEIITOE
1 replies - 2315 views - 01/08/12 by Thomas Ferris N... in Articles
I'm helping out a client who is having a problem using Spock and Tapestry 5.3 together. The Spock/Tapestry integration
was created for Tapestry 5.2, and some subtle change in the Tapestry
5.3 IoC container has boned the integration, so running even a simple...
0 replies - 799 views - 01/08/12 by Howard Lewis Ship in Articles
I have been very experimenting with tapestry-jquery
plugin and it is great to finally go back to jquery. Not only using
jquery is very easy but it also comes with a lot of plugins.
There are some improvements that I think can be added to the...
1 replies - 946 views - 01/06/12 by Taha Siddiqi in Articles
On windows machines I have been using Mailster
for testing email notifications. Unfortunately, I had issues with
Mailster in the past running on non-Windows machines. Thus, on Mac I
have been using a local Postfix instance, which forwarded email to...
1 replies - 2010 views - 01/02/12 by Gunnar Hillert in Articles
Tip #5 of my blog post Ten Tips for Using Java Stack Traces demonstrates two example of using Java code to extract a Throwable's (implying Error or Exception) stack trace into a single
1 replies - 2034 views - 01/02/12 by Dustin Marx in Articles
This post investigates the performance of unmarshalling an XML document
to Java objects using a number of different approaches. The XML document
is very simple. It contains a collection of Person entities.
3 replies - 2360 views - 12/31/11 by Alex Staveley in Articles
