web-applications

UI presentation control across many discrete web apps

Our company currently has 7 separate large Internet facing web applications. They all have the following have different look and feels that represent the branding style of the time when they were built have different UI and backend frameworks based on when they were built separate teams supporting and developing each built over differe...

Is it possible to slow down IIS ?

I have a local development webserver set up using Win7 and IIS7. I often have to test the applications and websites I develop on all browsers using "very slow" internet connections to determine how all the clients scripts execute and if the images and all linked resources load properly and in order on all browsers. Now, this involves ...

Store users hashed PW in localstorage?

I'm writing a web app for 100 users where I work. It is accessible on the internet, not just our intranet. Many users are unskilled users, though most use Chrome as that's the browser that's default on their laptops. To auth with the web app this is a potential plan: User enters password Password is sent to server Password is hashed a...

How do I clear the HTML5 Application Cache from Javascript?

I have implemented application caching in a web app for the iPhone, and it seems to work, both on mobile Safari and and on my desktop iMac. Using iOS4, Safari 5.0, MacOS X 10.6.4. I am using the Webkit developer tools in Safari to debug it. What is bugging me at the moment is that when I go enable the debugger and run it, the debug...

Calling a .NET web application from another .net web application

Hi, Is it possible to pass control and data from one web application to another? The background is we have a web application 1 that we support and the client wants another web applications (2) functionality within this one. The relationship betweenn web app 1 and web app 2 is that web app1 produces the csv file that web app 2 consum...

Implementation of a ASP.NET based portal-like application.

There is the requirement, to write a portal like ASP.NET based web application. There should be a lightweigted central application, which implements the primary navigation and the authentication. The design is achieved by masterpages. Then there are several more or less independent applications(old and new ones!!), which should easily ...

Building a database driven web app

Need some pointers in choosing the technologies for building a database driven web app. (preferably open source) Here are the options. Database: MySQL. Any other option? Platform: Java Technology: JavaServer Faces JSF? EJB? Servlets? This is where m totally confused as in what do I choose. I want to have a web designed architecture so...

Script to Reload specific Web App

Hello internet, I have been looking for the past two hours for a script to reload my web app. I'm using Tomcat on a windows server 2003. I know that there is a link to reload your web app, but i'm wondering if i can automate the process to reload my web app once every 8 hours. I would really appreciate if you could give me hint or ...

how to find the the system regional time zone name by java script

Hi i have a typical requirement in my web application, i have to fill a dropdown box with all system timezones and set the selected time zone where from the client is browsing. Only timezoneoffset is not enough to handle this suituation, since there are two reasons 1.the latest OS having more than one time zone with the same offset 2.If...

Struts2: How do I tell my index.jsp to forward to a struts2 action?

Oftentimes when I see an index.jsp on a web application it just forwards to another url like login.jsp such as <jsp:forward page="login.jsp" /> When using struts2, I want a similar index.jsp but I want it to forward to an action. How do I do this? ...

Executables in a war file

We'd like to ship some helper scripts (shell scripts) as part of an application war. Unfortunately it appears like our build system (maven) discard the permissions on all files and the scripts end up without the executable bit set. Is it even possible to do that? Does the .war format support executable files? If yes: how could tell mav...

How does Spring fit into my application architecture?

I'm currently rebuilding an existing PHP application using Java. I therefore have an existing frontend GUI and an existing database schema that I'm working with. Here is the technology stack I'm working towards: jQuery, client-side Wicket, front-end Spring, ??? Hibernate, ORM MySQL, database Before reading about Spring in both Wicke...

asp.net web application startup time. how to optimize?

Hi everybody, we have this problem but can't find a solution. We have an application that references something like 24 dlls. When you invoke the application the very first time (after the application is for any reason reset) it takes 25-40 seconds to start loading contents. This is what we tried: 1. precompile and publish everything in ...

SiteMesh - still active? v2 vs v3 ?

Hi, I'm evaluating SiteMesh for use in our web applications. I've found two websites for SiteMesh version 2.4 (Jan 2009) -> http://www.opensymphony.com/sitemesh/ version 3.0 (Sep 2009) -> http://www.sitemesh.org/ Looks like the same author is involved in both (Joe Walnes). So my question is - is SiteMesh still in active development?...

Legitamate cross site communication

I am building a website, within a large intranet, that wraps and adds functionality to another site within the same intranet. I do not have access to the other site's source and they do not provide any api's for the functionality they provide. I need to, somehow, have my server-side code go to that site, fill in some forms, then press a ...

HTML: Browser opens 2 tabs when someone clicks a link on my web site?

I have the following HTML code: <div onclick="window.open('http://example.com')" > <p>1234 Main St, New York, NY</p> <p>Price: $200,000/p> <p>4 Beds / 3 Baths</p> <p>2000 sqft</p> <a href="http://example.com"&gt;More Info</a> </div> If the person hovers over the part of the DIV that is not the hyperlink, it only opens one window. If ...

Web page to check PC for software prerequisites

Our software's installer program checks the PC to ensure the prerequisites (.NET framework, service packs etc) are already installed. It largely does this by checking for registry entries on the PC. I've been asked to look into producing a webpage that could do the same job, inspect the PC and report back what software version they have...

Is there any reasonably big web application (e.g 1M page views/month ) running on mono?

I have plans to work on a website using mono and asp.net mvc.But i would like to know where anyone has actually used mono for reasonably big production environment. ...

Concurrent user restriction in a web application

What is the best way to restrict concurrent user access in any web application? Existing problem: We have different reports in our web application. if one user is accessing any report we must not allow other users to access the same report. How can we achieve this? Proposed solution: create singleton class which will hold the report...

Finding friends through twitter, facebook, gmail, etc

Hi, I have a web app, where I ask for a user's: Email address (required) First/Last name (optional) Twitter handle (optional) I'd like to allow them to find friends also using my service - if I understand correctly, I can offer the following methods: Given their email address, try to find their contacts. This may be based on their...