I started creating Cactus unit tests for a number of servlet filters in openEPRS. I didn’t get far before encountering a number of strange problems. For the life of me I could not get the cactifywar ant task to add a FilterRedirector to my project’s web.xml. I posted a number of questions to the Cactus [...]
I decided to spruce up the default page for the openEPRS web services application. The application is implemented using the Jersey RI for JSR-311 REST Web Services. While Jersey provides a nice UI for testing your web services, trying to integrate it into the main application was more trouble than it was worth. Since the [...]
I have posted a few screenshots of the openEPRS installer based on the GlassFish IzPack installer created by Julien Ponge. Julien’s work provides the framework for setting up and configuring the application server. The openEPRS application is installed and configured using custom code that implements the GlassFish addon configurator interface. Thanks go to Brian Chan [...]
Guide for building NetBeans projects using CruiseControl.
I just started exploring the impressive Ext JavaScript framework. It is very easy to work with and supports a number of options for getting data into your Web 2.0 applications. I also started experimenting with Jersey, the reference implementation for JSR 311 RESTful web services. After playing with both for a couple of days, I [...]
Guide for creating a JDBC Security Realm on Glassfish.
Set JAVA_HOME environment variable on Ubuntu Linux.