web-applications

Commercial web application--scalable database design

I'm designing a set of web apps to track scientific laboratory data. Each laboratory has several members, each of whom will access both their own data and that of their laboratory as a whole. Many typical queries will thus be expected to return records of multiple members (e.g. my mouse, joe's mouse and sally's mouse). I think I have th...

Silverlight, Flash, or JavaScript for web app that runs client-side, or just stick with C#?

Silverlight, Flash, and JavaScript, oh my.. I have a couple of applications that I need to develop for one of my business partners that will be distributed to dozens of people. These applications will need to be able to query information from the internet (query via Google, grab feeds from our other sites, just general web access) and s...

Design pattern for Fat Client - Thin Client to use Common code?

Windows-based client application and web-client application(consuming the same code which windows-client uses) what is the preferable pattern for this scenario? Is it ok to have the code in the common place where both the projects and refer it as dll i.e one which is a windows app and other which is going consume the same code which wind...

How do I change which files by default have build property of content in visual studio.

When adding a PDF, CSV, etc... to a project I have to go to the properties of every file and change the build action to Content. Is there a way to change the list of extensions that are recognized in a project so that this will happen when I include a pdf or csv in my project automatically. Thanks, ...

MySQL data integrity?

In various PostgreSQL vs. MySQL comparisons I've seen many mentions of problems with data integrity in MySQL. Is this currently still an issue? Particularly for web applications using MySQL, are there tricks to making sure data integrity is maintained? Or with new versions is this true 'out of the box' with no additional configuration r...

How to generate an ear file from a maven-archetype-webapp artifact?

I currently have a project built with maven-archetype-webapp artifact. The default packaging for this project is war. Is it possible for me to insert the maven-ear-plugin in this webapp pom.xml generate an ear file that contains this project war? I tried that, but the war file doesn't get embedded in the generated ear file. It has ever...

Java applet to get external webpage contents

i am working on a webapp to download videos from streaming websites. i don't know anything about applets but stuck here to know about them. anybody please give basic detailed method to create such applet and how to use it? ...

What book/resources for large Javascript application development?

I'm looking for a decent book or online resource to help me learn about developing large Javascript applications. There are lots of books that go over the fundamental and advanced features of JS, but I'm looking for something which covers application structure, coding practices etc. Any ideas? ...

iPhone apps: Webapps or native?

Hi all, I am planning to create an iPhone apps version for our online webapps. I am still new to iPhone apps development so I don't know whether to choose iPhone native or a webapps that runs on iPhone browser. The requirement is actually pretty basic. The iPhone apps need to submit data and get data from the database that is also use...

Unified solution for WIA and TWAIN in a web front end

I need to add a web-based capability to allow users to scan images using a local TWAIN or WIA compliant scanner or digital camera and then upload those images to the server. (The scanning experience should be integrated into the web UI as opposed to just allowing them to scan it locally using whatever tools and then upload the resulting...

Databases Software for Rapid Queries

I'm writing a Comet application that has to keep track of each open connection to the server. I want to write an entry to the database for each connection, and I will have to search the database for the proper connections every time the application receives new data (often), which is why I don't want to start off on the wrong foot by cho...

Where can I download a good, free membership system application?

I want a good, free membership system. By free I mean that I don't want to pay and I am not asking users to pay either. ...

How do web browser games access temporary files

There is a web game that I play and I used fiddler to see what temporary files it downloaded. While I was playing I deleted all those temporary files including the sounds and flash files. But it didn't affect the game at all. Why is that? I checked in fiddler and it doesn't look like the files were redownloaded. ...

How to make a web game load different files

I play a flash game online and I noticed that some sound files that are used in the game get downloaded to the temporary internet files directory. How can I get the game to use different sounds? I don't think that simply replacing the sound files will work, because even if I delete the sound files the game still has sounds. The only wa...

crawl websites out of java web application without using bin/nutch

hi :) i am trying to using nutch (1.1) without bin/nutch from my (java) mojarra 2.0.2 webapp... i am searching at google for examples, but there are no examples how i can realize this :/ ... i get an exception and the job fails :/ (i think of cause something with hadoop)... here is my code: public void run() throws Exception { ...

JQuery .load() function silently fails when offline

I'm trying to write an iPhone offline webapp using jqtouch/jquery. When I disable my connectivity, it looks like the jquery .load() function silently fails and doesn't even call its callback function. I've set $.ajaxSetup ({cache: true}); but it seems to have no effect. I also have my manifest file etc. working fine - the only issue is t...

Create and access folder outside Apache Tomcat webapps folder

My web application requires functionality where end users can upload content, that can be later downloaded or viewed by others, the problem with current scheme is If I create such folder as part of your web project under webapps, every time I do deploy your web application (*.war), the content of that directory will be lost (or overridde...

Why does my JSF + Spring web application output JSF source code instead of interpreted HTML page?

I'm new to both JSF and Spring Framework and I'm trying to figure out how to make them work together. My current problem is that application outputs my JSF files without interpreting them. Here are some snippets of my code which I believe might be relevant: dispatcher-servlet.xml <bean id="urlMapping" class="org.springframework.web.se...

Upload picture from iPhone in Web App

I have built a web-app for iphone using iUi framework. As you may already know, mobile safari doesn't support file upload form element. My application allows school administrators to do classroom walk-throughs, marking off what they see in the classroom (in web form survey). I would like to add the ability for them to upload a picture ta...

How to store static content across branches in a single location in version control

[Just a random thought] I have a pdf doc that is downloaded when the user clicks on 'help' on my website. Now, this is a pretty huge document and is saved in version control (SVN) and is thus copied for all branches that exist in SVN. This is static content and something that developers are not working on, and does not change often. Is ...