A few weeks ago, I tried to ask a similar question, but phrased it incorrectly, so I'm trying again. I still don't think what I want is possible, but I'm asking anyhow. Given a web application running on a "remote" server (i.e. can be anywhere in the world), can that webapp communicate with applets on a Java Card connected to a user's w...
Hi all: I am working on a login section for a new project, which definitely requires user authentication. The easiest way of doing that I assume would be using the http basic authentication. I implemented it fine on the Apache server, ssl was also intorudced to provide better security. However, one thing concerns me, that it seems the...
Hello, I have this web client (built entirely through a Javascript Ajax framework), that communicates with the middle tier via web service calls (3 web services are deployed on JBoss, 1 web service is deployed on Tomcat). All of the web services access the same Oracle database. The web services are built through Axis2 and Spring. All th...
I am building car rental web-application software I recently encountered a concern from a possible client; that they don't want the software company to see their data in the database. They load their rates contracts etc which are confidential and don't want anyone apart from them have access to this data, including our dba or some devel...
At a recent interview, I was asked: Open source web app (say built on Struts/Spring) is more prone to hacking since anyone can access the source code and change it. How do you prevent it? My response was: The java source code is not directly accessible. It is compiled into class files, which are then bundled in a war file and deployed...
A current highly strict policy situation is making us consider updating a remote database server via scripts only - having no access via remote desktop connection or such. We will send the scripts and database owners will apply them.. There will be a dedicated dba on the other hand responsible for the maintenance of the databse. This d...
I want to develop bubbles within input fields. Does anyone know a good tutorial or at least the actual name so I can look myself? I have provided examples below that illustrate what I mean, within the "to" field. Examples: Hotmail: http://thesocialmediaguide.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/email-to-Facebook.jpg ...
Basically my intention is to create web application. I have to use js, ajax, jquery, html5, css etc... I would like to know if there is a web application development kit out there that helps me compile and debug my code? I am aware of "Aptana", but I am not sure if that is what I need. Can someone please eloberate what the choices availa...
Hi, I have been an android developer till about a week back when I shifter over to "web application" development. Now when I ask people how to get started for the same purpose I get the usual answer of studying js, HTML5, CSS, Ajax etc... So I strated out and I was pretty happy for some time learning new things and getting used to the i...
Hi, You know how a "webapp" can be installed via Mobile Safari by tapping the + button? And by launching this app via the homescreen your webapp knows that it was launched from the homescreen because window.navigator.standalone is set to 1... Well.. I made an iOS app with a UIWebView that loads a web app. And now I'd like to add the w...
I have a page that has 3 used controls that are dynamically added to the page. One of these use controls hits a class that pulls a record set from the database (a rather quick request) and the other 2 user controls hit a single class and return a dataset from the database. The 2 that share a single class take an average of 10 seconds t...
Let's start with a bit of context. What do I have in my hands? Multiple web applications (All .NET: WebForms and MVC) Common UI template Each application has also it's own UI elements. Multiple files for css/javascript. Some common to all applications, some specific to the application. Tenths of files per page = multiple requests per p...
Is it possible to use a single log4j jar file in an tomcat 5.5 setup, where it can be used by multiple webapps and have seperate logging for each webapp? I have about 8 different webapps written where the only real difference between the log4j property files is the log filename. However if I attempt to move log4j from the webapp WEB-INF...
I have the following DetailsView, with several BoundFields, and SQlDataSource that populates the fields: <asp:DetailsView ID="DetailsView1" runat="server" AutoGenerateRows="False" DataKeyNames="TICKET_ID" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1" HeaderText="Completed IT ticket information" CellPadding="4" ForeColor="#333333" GridLi...
Do I need to implement my own sync methods in order to make an offline web app (html+css+js) stay up to date with changes made on the server (and viceversa)? I'm using MySQL on the server side. I read http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3106191/ with some pointers but I think they're talking about native applications when they mention CF...
Hi, I am a beginner to web development and ASP.NET. I am creating a web application (not public, so SEO, bookmarking etc. is of no concern) with the typical layout of header on top, Navigation on the left, content on the right. I want the content to update without the whole page reloading when selecting something on the navigation bar. ...
Hi, We've inherited this ASP.NET website. We've already converted it to a web application for different reasons that doesn't matter right now. But there are 2 folders with 2 .aspx pages inside that does some really ugly stuff (creates a new aspx file with its corresponding code behind and save it inside one of those folders). So when...
I'm writing a strategy-kind of multi user game for the web. It has a playfield (X by Y squares) that I plan on serialize and store in a BLOB in a MySQL (innodb) database, one row for each ongoing game. I now try to figure out a good way of keeping the database updated with any changes to the playfield, and at the same time finding a c...
I'm trying to implement Redirect After Post for the first time in ASP.NET. Assuming my business objects may take several seconds to a minute to complete, in what order, and what syntax do I use? For example: User POST's Server issues Server.Transfer or Response.Redirect Server does something that takes a minute or two Thread.Sleep ...
I have to translate a web application written in asp.net / javascript with a lot of html/javascript code created in the codebehind, which approach could be the best to translate it, or make it multilanguage support? ...