Hibernate ASM Incompatibilities
A few times now I’ve tried to use ASM 2.2.3 in an application that was utilizing Hibernate. It doesn’t work the way you’d hope. The easiest solution I’ve found is to remove the CGLib and ASM (1.5.3),...
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Running Ant within Eclipse
I tried to run an Ant target within Eclipse today and got a fun error: BUILD FAILED java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/javadoc/Type This happened because Ant could not find tools.jar, which...
View ArticleShowdown – Java HTML Parsing Comparison
I had to do some HTML parsing today, but unfortunately most HTML on the web is not well-formed like any markup I’d create. Missing end tags and other broken syntax throws a wrench into the situation....
View ArticleSuppressing Compile Warnings with Java Annotations
If you’ve used Java 1.5 Generics much then you’re probably familiar with the following compile warning: “Type safety: The expression of type List needs unchecked conversion to conform to...
View ArticleIntro to URL Rewriting with Apache’s .htaccess
I have created an .htaccess file to do URL rewriting for every site I’ve ever created. If you’re not familiar with URL rewriting, it is used to modify a URL or redirect the user before the requested...
View ArticleHTML Parsing using the Firefox DLLs
One of my first posts was a comparison of HTML parsers. Today I found a particularly challenging document to parse. None of the parsers I had compared earlier were able to handle the malformed HTML in...
View ArticleEasy Java Bean toString() using BeanUtils
I often want to have a String description of my beans for debugging or logging purposes, but hate having to manually concatenate the fields in my class to create a toString() method. This code snippet...
View ArticleEmbedded Jetty
One of the coolest things about Jetty is the ability to run it in embedded mode. This means that you can write a Java app with a main method that will launch a Jetty server. This has some really nice...
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