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Struts-JSF Demo I've setup another demo - this time it's the struts-example app ported to use JSF and Struts. Nothing ground breaking here that I can tell, and after looking at the code, I don't know what to think of JSF. It seems to make it much harder to code a JSP page. 

<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="f" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="h" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="s" uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-faces" %>

<f:use_faces>
<s:html locale="true">
<head>
  <title><
    <s:message key="registration.title.edit"/>
    </title>
  <s:base/>
  <s:stylesheet path="/stylesheet.css"/>
</head>
<body bgcolor="white">

<s:errors/>

<s:form action="/saveRegistration" focus="username"
         onsubmit="return validateRegistrationForm(this);">

  <h:input_hidden id="action" modelReference="registrationForm.action"/>

  <h:panel_grid
           columns="2"
        panelClass="form-background"
       headerClass="form-header"
     columnClasses="form-prompt,form-field">
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Ugh, a whole new set of Tag Libraries to learn? Seems like JSF is a lot of bloat, while JSP 2.0 has been made things simpler. One interesting thing is the use of the single-letter (i.e. "h", "s") for the tag libraries. I suggested this a while ago on the struts-dev list, and it looks like it's been implemented. Bravo! I doubt I'm the reason for it, but it's always nice to see your ideas implemented.

I apologize that this site was down most of the day today. It seems that the monitoring/restarting scripts were not running and this should/will be fixed shortly. I need a gig where I can restart this site when it goes down. Anyone know of a way to telnet/ssh via an HTTP Proxy? Posted in Java at Mar 07 2003, 03:38:29 PM MST 1 Comment

Debugging JUnit tests in Eclipse - how? Does anyone know how to run JUnit tests using Ant and debug them in Eclipse? I have the JUnit/Ant part figured out, it's the debugging I'm having issues with. I'm able to run debug (using breakpoints) in Eclipse while running Tomcat, but not while running a simple JUnit test from Ant. Man that would be cool. If I could run Ant (from w/in Eclipse or on the command line) and set breakpoints in Eclipse - I could sure speed up my development time. Posted in Java at Mar 07 2003, 09:15:09 AM MST 2 Comments

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Since he's a good guy and posts and discovers an insane amount of interesting stuff, I've gotta help him :-). Google, here you go!

To Janne Jalkanen: I dig the name of your blog, I LOL'ed when I first read the title. Also, you're Finnish, so that means you've got to be cool. My Grandparents (last name: Hill) were Finnish and I'm about 35%; the rest being German, Dutch and Irish. Posted in General at Mar 07 2003, 09:06:15 AM MST Add a Comment