web-applications

Java Web Application File Loader w/ change detection

Is there any tool/framework available to load and autommatically reload an arbitrary file from within a java web application? (I'd like to avoid writing it myself - I do know how to write it) ...

web application development with j2me

The main reason I'd like to use j2me is that one of its main advantages is that it can access the phone's resources through its various APIs. However, due to newer phones having web browsers like Safari, Opera, and Windows IE, it would be advantageous to build a web application so a user wouldn't have to download some software onto their...

Ruby on Rails or a PHP framework

I am a capable programmer and I write software for a living. I am taking up a new project to build a website that has a bunch of forms that perform CRUD operations on a database and some multimedia. I am very familiar with PHP and Python and have written some websites in them. I have written some rake tasks and a few ruby scripts that ru...

Adding a new row (with a templated column) to an Infragistics UltraWebGrid

I am using the Infragistics UltraWebGrid to capture some data. I don't have this grid bound to a datasource, I simply access the values I need when the user clicks a save button. I need to add autocomplete functionality to one of the columns in this grid, easily achieved with an asp.net textbox and ajaxtoolkit autocomplete extender. Pr...

Create Installer

Hi All, How to create a installer using Java that combine tomcat, mysql and war file and come out a final exe? ...

Dead-simple web authentication for a single user

I wrote a small internal web app using (a subset of) pylons. As it turns out, I now need to allow a user to access it from the web. This is not an application that was written to be web facing, and it has a bunch of gaping security holes. What is the simplest way I can make sure this site is securely available to that user, but no one e...

Porting a Web Application to Desktop Application

I have a web app in production that is used for typical data entry,retrieval, and reporting type functions. For reasons of mobility(field access required) I have been tasked with porting that Web App to a Desktop App. The structure of the existing app, which I did not design or code, is thus: 3 Individual Projects each with there ow...

How can I tell what a website was written in?

I'm looking for a series of 'tells' that indicate what a website was written in and/or what web framework is being used and maybe what web server software is used. Obvious examples would be the page extensions, http headers, page features, like VIEWSTATE, cookie names and such. Obviously, these tells could be faked or suppressed so I'm n...

From Computer Scientist to Software Engineer

Hello Stackoverfellows, I graduated in December in Computer Science and have acquired a Software Engineering position. I have been banging my head up against the wall for 2 months trying to learn Hibernate, Spring and everything else that has been thrown at me in my first project. Prior to accepting this job I had experience only in pr...

Single Instance of Project or Multiple Instances of Project?

I want to create a business directory project. I want to start two businesses with this project, the first will be customized for restaurants and the second will be customized for toy stores. In terms of customization, each business project will have its own domain name, configuration settings, front end templates and language files. ...

Deploying modules in a web application

I have a web application - deployed on Tomcat. It has two modules Module A and Module B Both have java code as well as UI component (struts\JSP etc.) Functionally, Module A is independent an doesn't depend upon Module B For ModuleA: We create a war for Module A and deploy it as ModuleA.war Now Module B depends upon Module A We so "me...

Suggestions for making an offline version of an online form?

I work for a school district in which the teachers submit their lesson plans to their principals online. They do this using an online form I wrote using PHP/MySQL and it uses TinyMCE for its textareas. One of the major features that was requested was for teachers to be able to save their incomplete forms as drafts to submit later. This ...

SharePoint List access across Application Pools

I have a requirement where I need to be able to access a list which sits in Central Administration from an Application Page which sits on my Web Front End (WFE). The issue I have is that the Application Pool User for my WFE does not have access to the SharePoint_AdminContent database so I get access denied, they both have their own App P...

How should a global exception handler work in a web application?

In a web application on the intranet of a global enterprise, what should it show? What are some best practices or things some of you have learned over the years? I'm thinking about putting a text field and submit button on the error page that allows the user to automatically submit a help ticket if they need to... It will definitely log...

Does the iPhone get a fixed IP address when accessing the web via the mobile phone network?

I’m guessing not, but I wondered if anyone had any experience. I imagine it could vary depending on the mobile network. I’ll do some testing here on O2 in the UK and update the post. ...

How should business errors be handled in a web application?

Say that I've got a web application that can store Persons in a database. Every Person must have a unique email address (or username or whatever). If a user attempts to add a Person with an email address that already exists, the form should be returned with an error message (like it would during a typical validation failure). How is t...

XML Signature in a Web application

Hi, We are developing an e-Banking web application for a small bank (up to 20000 clients/users). We have to implement digital signatures with X509 certificates (issued by CA on USB tokens) for signing payment information. We tried using CAPICOM but it seems that it is not working well with Windows Vista (have not tried it with Win 7). T...

Planning Scalable Web Application Development

What language, framework, and hosting considerations should one make before starting development of a scalable web application? ...

A technology for reading pdfs online with annotations?

Hi, is there an open source solution that displays PDFs for online reading? It has to be searchable much like google books and if possible has the ability to display annotations? ...

Flex web application control equivalent to mx.controls.HTML

As Flex web applications do not have the mx.controls.HTML control (which is for AIR applications only), anyone know of a FOSS custom control that can near the functionality. I have checked the flex-iframe control, but it offers only viewing of HTML content and not manipulation as in the AIR control. Thanks to all in advance. ...