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Apache Tomcat 4.1.17 Alpha has just been released. Significant changes over 4.1.16 Beta include fixing socket binding in Coyote JK 2 (where only the loopback interface would be bound), administration webapp fixes for resource link handling, minor performance tweaks in the TCP endpoint, as well as other minor fixes. View the release notes or download.
I turned in my 1st draft of the Security Chapter on Monday and I'm sending my example app to go along with it as we speak. That means I'm 3 days late on my first deadline - doh! And my second deadline is Sunday - for the Struts Chapter - fat chance of hitting that one. To make matters more convoluted, I have had more calls this week about new opportunities than all year!! As you might now, I don't have a full time gig right now - so opportunities are most important right (especially with a little one and wife to support). So I will be staying up until the wee hours of the morning, acting like a keyboard monkey, until sometime next week. I can't wait to get this over with. The writing part is cool - but I can't concentrate on writing - I get too caught up in the sample app and waste hours trying to tweak stuff. Damn, I can't wait to get rid of this stress.
I've been switching back and forth between IDEA and Eclipse for the past couple nights. I DO like IDEA, but as I only have 3 days left on my evaluation, I'll sadly have to let it go. My favorite feature is it's ability to recognize that you haven't imported a class, and then allows you to hit Alt+Enter to add the import. Also, it grays out imports that aren't being used, both very slick features. As for generating getters and setters, it does a poor job in my opinion. It puts them above your variable declaration and doesn't add any javadoc comments. Eclipse puts them at the bottom of your class and adds javadoc comments - so Eclipse wins here. Also, Eclipse does a much better job of adding and recognizing javadoc comments. IDEA wins on indentation, it always seems to know where you want to be. If I get a full time gig here soon, I might have to buy IDEA. I think it's best when you can use multiple tools to make your development life easier. I say screw these debates on Eclipse vs. IDEA or Struts vs. Webwork - use them all! (I need to examine Webwork as it gets lots of good comments from it's developers.) Of course, it's easier to use both when you have a dual-monitor setup! I highly recommend this... it's awesome!
Later: The other thing that IDEA wins on is that it can actually run my Ant script without puking. Eclipse doesn't let me run it - maybe it's cause it has Ant 1.4.1. Hmmm, wonder if I can upgrade it to 1.5.1. IDEA has better XML editing, and even seems to detect errors in build.xml.
As I'm editing this post with the Later paragraph, I received the following from Cédric (who seems to work for BEA from his e-mail address).
You didn't say if you already knew this about Eclipse, so I thought I would tell you anyway:
- To fix a missing import, just press Ctrl-1 (Quick Fix) on the class with squiggly lines. Ctrl-1 does a lot of incredible things, like it sometimes reads your mind. I much prefer this approach to having specific actions and shortcuts to remember. Another interesting one is Ctrl-Shift-O (Organize Imports), when you have a lot of imports to fix. Eclipse will analyze your whole source and add them all for you (and possibly prompt your when there are ambiguities).
- The latest builds underline the unused imports with yellow squiggly lines.
--
Cédric
http://beust.com/weblog
Sweet! Must be time to download a nightly build!
My Mom and Dad are having a rough week - we received the postcard below from them today. My sister, Kalin, and I surprised them with a trip to Hawaii for their 30th wedding anniversary (November 16th). They never had a honeymoon when they originally got married, so we figured they'd enjoy one now! My dad was stationed at Waikiki beach when he was in the Navy - so he's having a lot of fun re-living old memories. I used Kurt's sharpen, resize, sharpen again technique on the scanned postcard below - seems to have worked pretty well. My gung-ho mom writes that she went running at 5:30 in the morning and there were a lot of folks already up and about. Running!? At 5:30 in the morning?! Yeah, she runs marathons too! She hadn't exercised in her life, in the traditional sense - we always got plenty of exercise living at the cabin - until my sister and I moved out. Now she's over 50 and in the best shape of her life! Go Mom - you're awesome.
I've had a headache ever since I had the stomach flu last week. It's pretty bad in the mornings - almost a migrane/throbbing type of headache. Of course, it could be due to stress from writing these chapters, or from staring at the computer screen too long. BUT, Julie's mom, who also got sick, has been experiencing the same never-ending headache. I can't help but wonder if this is something related to the war on terrorism - did I catch some type of virus that is going to kill me in a month?! Julie thinks I'm full of it - she doesn't have a headache. I wonder if I should go to the doctor or just quite staring at this damn screen.
Erik gave me the link to this article from The Register. This sounds like big news to me.
Marc Fleury, Atlanta-based JBoss' founder, told ComputerWire yesterday the company has finished its implementation of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) version 1.4. J2EE 1.4 is due for official publication by the Java Community Process (JCP) in the first quarter of 2003.
Fleury said JBoss would now seek standards certification for its implementation. JBoss stands to become the first open source group to deliver a version of J2EE 1.4 under the revised JCP.
JBoss received the green light last week, after Sun told ComputerWire that it would allow all of the APIs contained in J2EE 1.4 to be open sourced. Fleury had expressed concern that certain critical APIs, including Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) 2.1, would be not be made available to open source organizations.
That reminds me that Marc Fluery will be speaking at the next Denver JUG meeting. That's Wednesday of this week. The Basic Concepts preso is covering Ant. I could probably skip this as these are usually pretty basic, but I'm expecting the place to be packed so I'd better get there early. Now I just have to see if I can get a few friends to buck up and go. I know a fair amount of developers that don't use Ant - how bad would that suck?!
Lance suggested a while back that I try Roller's BreadCrumbFilter to get the originally requested URL for form-based authentication. The idea is that if you can get this URL, you can use it to login again on your form-login-error page. So I added BreadCrumbFilter.java to my security project and mapped it to /*. The value I'm hoping to grab is a URL to welcome.do, since that is where I route users when the hit the welcome page. I found that this filter never gives me welcome.do, but that request.getHeader("referer"); gives it to me just fine - but only in IE. Yeck. I guess Craig was right when he said that you can't reliably get the original URL. I guess you can always just hard-code the action in your form-error-page to go to your main menu. That is, if your app server doesn't support the same page thing.
Gizmodo tells us about another sweet deal today.
Viking 512MB CompactFlash memory cards are now just $131.44 after rebate at Amazon. Remember when these used to cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars?
What a bargain! Why would you shop anywhere else when Amazon has all these sweet deals lately!? The best part is I'm actually in the market for a new CF card. Our Canon PowerShot G2 (which I highly recommend) came with a 32MB card, which holds about 26 photos or so. With a 512MB card, you could probably take ~400 photos - now that's a role of film! We're hoping to get a Photo Printer soon (I've been looking at Canon's s900), then we'll never have to get our film developed again!
I posted some new pictures on our photo album site this evening. These are from the last couple of weeks when we've had a whole slew of family and friends drop in to see us. Our little girl is growing up rather quickly, and still cute as a button!
Man, the East Coast is getting dumped on! You folks probably won't believe this, but I AM SO JEALOUS!! I love the snow, the more the better. But at the same time, growing up in Montana and living in Colorado for the last 10 years, my environment/state has always been prepared for it. The worst (or best storms, depending on how you look at them) storms I've ever been in are:
So sad as it may sound, I actually envy you guys.
