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Solutions to the Absent Code attribute problem often encountered when trying to do unit testing with Maven&/JUnit.

This little post shows how to replace the start attribute of the ol tag in XHTML STRICT pages to validate again!

CDI/Weld manual lookup

21, Apr 2010

This post describes how to manually lookup beans in a CDI / Weld managed environment when you are somewhere where a simple @Inject does not work because the object itself is not managed by CDI / Weld.

If you – like me – have the problem, that you need to run Tomcat or Glassfish or any other Java Webserver on Port 80, this might come handy for you: The problem: Tomcat, Jetty, Glassfish, JBoss AS etc. .. they all run on unprivileged ports > 1024, defaulting to 8080. If you want to […]

Here you’ll find the web.xml headers for servlet 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 and 3.0 + web-fragment.xml for servlet 3.0

In this post you will learn how to match complex urls with regular expressions and PrettyFaces in JSF2 Web Applications.

But how to disable Session Tracking by URL? How to set it to Cookie only? Thats described in this article.

A User on the glassfish mailing list posted a question: I would like to aks it. How must set up ie8 compatibility mode in glassfish? This is the iis setting: <system.webServer> <httpProtocol> <customHeaders> <clear /> <add name="X-UA-Compatible" value="IE=EmulateIE7" /> </customHeaders> </httpProtocol> </system.webServer><system.webServer> <httpProtocol> <customHeaders> <clear /> <add name="X-UA-Compatible" value="IE=EmulateIE7" /> </customHeaders> </httpProtocol> </system.webServer> Well… how […]

The “ironic programmer” published an article, how to create a really basic file upload with jsf2. He has not created any custom tags, but simply added a file-input field in his view and made the server populate a byte-array in his bean. His post was influenced by Uploading files with JSF 2.0 and Servlet 3.0 […]

The second part of the series covers the basics needed to understand authorization in a JavaEE application based on the principles provided by JAAS and how they apply in modern, JavaEE based web applications. The user is thought, how to configure his web-application to use role-based authorization and authenticate against a specific realm.


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