My web apps created in VS 2008 on Windows Server 2003, refuse to open in VS 2008 on Windows Server 2008. "The Web Application project 'MyProjectName' is configured to use IIS. To access local IIS Web sites, you must install the following IIS components: IIS 6 Metabase and IIS 6 Configuration Compatibility Authentication". I want noth...
Spring roo is new framework and I found it very interesting. I have been working on web application for last 3-4 years and Always found JSPs are hard to maintain across teams if everyone is not disciplined enough about separation of markup and serverside logic. I have used JackBe/BackBase in last projects and I enjoyed xml templates work...
I have similar instances of the same web application running across many domains. I need an easy way to manage (edit, add, etc.) certain files (php, css, html) for each domain. I was thinking of writing a control panel in PHP, but was wondering if there are existing scripts people have already written for accomplishing this? Thanks! ...
Is using the 'synchronized' keyword on methods in a Java DAO going to cause issues when used by a web application? I ask because I have a multi-threaded stand alone application that needs the methods to by synchronized to avoid resource conflict, as seen here. java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: javax.persistence.PersistenceExcept...
Is there any way to do this? I know java applets, flash don't allow this, what about browser plugins? Other ideas? ...
I'm trying to use JMX API to get active session counts for a web application. Is it possible to use JMX API to get this kind of information? If yes, how reliable would it be? Any example code on how to get this done? I've been reading JMX tutorial and documentation, but they are giving me the overview of what the technology is. I j...
This question is meant to serve as a list of databases and their configurations that the major web-sites use and would be a great reference for anyone thinking of scaling their web-site to the size of Twitter, Facebook or even Google. Please keep your answers to a minimum and be sure to cite any sources used. EDIT: Also, please bold b...
I have designed a desktop application in c# and web application in php. my desktop application requests data by calling php file and some portion of desktop application showing web forms using web browser control. both process takes too much time. is there any other method speed up this two processes ...
I have an ASP.NET MVC app which depends on a lot of settings (name-value pairs), I am planning to store this information in a database table called SiteSettings. Is there an easy way in which I can get these settings using NHibernate. And what are the best practices when saving settings for a web application. And by settings I mean the s...
What tecnology should i use? Currently i am thinking of creating a web application with Silverlight. ...
This question is for web developers and architects. How do you think is it a good or bad idea to have a website where you're able to edit all the templates (HTML, CSS, JS, images..) right from the admin panel? In this case if you update website often, you don't need to search for a local version of your website on you development machi...
I have an existing ASP.NET application that implements Forms Authentication site-wide. The application is deployed in multiple instances (e.g., customer1, customer2, test, dev, etc...), with a separate database per instance. SSL is in play. Instance configuration is via an XML config file. I have a new requirement to allow upload/downlo...
Voting contests seem to gain a lot of attention from people who want to game a system for fun. I know I spend a good amount of time fooling around with their forms and URLs, deleting cookies and writing the occasional crappy script. Is there a way to create a foolproof voting system that only allows one vote a day? Is Captcha the only e...
We have a multi-tenant web-based Enterprise application using Hibernate over MySQL. We use Jasper Reports for any reports that our customers require, but now we also need to offer ad-hoc reporting so that Users can run their own queries. How have others accomplished this? I am thinking that I can either: Provide a full export in exce...
Question: Is there a way to detect what XHtml conformance setting a particular ASP.Net web page is being generated using at run time (without reference to the web.config). Background: We have ASP.NET web pages which need to work under different XHtml Conformance modes - mostly Legacy (Sorry Mum), but some which use Transitional to enabl...
We want to integrate webmail with our current application. At present I need to sign in to my existing application. As soon as it is done, I am asked for the webmail credentials. Once the web mail credentials are entered, the user gets access to webmail where I get 3 options in form of "Horde", "Squirrel Mail" and "Round Cube Webmail". ...
I am trying to build Apache Lenya from source and I am running into some problems. When I check out version 2.0.2 (the last stable release) form SVN, there is a build.sh file in the home directory and I can build it using: ./build.sh This script changes some variables and executes an ant build. However, when I check out the latest ver...
Hi, I have found that I often have to implement some sort of a scheduler in the applications I develop. The applications can range from simple maintenance tasks to fairly complex. So far my approach has been to set up cron jobs that essentially do batch processing of queued commands. For example, I have cron invoking a script (I am wor...
You've probably seen web apps that have an "email dropbox". Users can send email to a special address like '[email protected]' and the message will be parsed and inserted into their account as a comment, to-do, etc. We're trying to build something like this, and wondering which way would be best? Is the '[email protected]...
I have a client who owns a business with a handful of employees. He has a product website that has several hundred static product pages that are updated periodically via FTP. We want to change this to a data-driven website, but the database (which will be hosted at an ISP) will have to be updated from data on my client's servers. Ho...