web-applications

tomcat webapps directory absolute path ?

I have tomcat extract in one place and my webapps directory may be somewhere else. Then how to get absolute path of my web application? . I have my file handling programme inside webapps and i want to find absolute path of my webapps or my application directory(starting from c:/ or /home/use/ ../../webapp/mywebapplication like that ). ...

Installing Pinax on Windows

Can I install Pinax on Windows Environment? Is there a easy way? Which environment do you recommend? ...

Allow Client to Change Files, Add Folders *Not in FTP*

I have a weird requirement. Is there a way to allow someone the ability to create folders, edit files, add files on a server without using a FTP client. This would ideally be browser based and under one admin sesssion. ...

Emulate/Simulate iPhone Sprinboard behavior in a JS Webpage

Hey, I am looking for a smart way to emulate the iPhone Springboard behavior of changing icon possition. I just want to change few icons on ONE screen. It should be run in JS on a webpage. Any suggestions to start? Thank you very much ...

What are some prestigious awards a web application or other technology solution can be nominated for?

The company that I work for has and continues to put together some halfway decent web based applications, etc and I was wondering what are the prestigious / well-respected awards that I could submit our work to be nominated for. ...

Breaking down webapp into multiple pieces (tomcat)

I have a large monolithic webapp, and whenever I make changes to a particular section of the webapp I am forced to deploy the entire app. I would like to break this down into smaller chunks based on functionality (e.g. In a Banking website - I want to seperate out informational stuff from the online banking functionality, so if I make a...

Which current tools and technologies would you suggest as 'state of the art' for a new Java web project?

We are starting a new Java Web project and would like some advice on the 'state of the art' on (free) tools/technologies. Our current shopping list contains: Java 5 JBoss Spring Junit Selenium (automated functional test) Ant Cruise Control (CI) How does it look like? Also, what is the tool of choice for adding some AJAX bits? ...

Serve a jar file from within a war file (as a resource)

I have a web app: MyApp.war, inside it, I have a jar file: WEB-INF/lib/PublicJar.jar I want client applications to be able to download that jar like a web resource. e.g http://theserver.com/myapp/jars/PublicJar.jar I want the web application to be able to compute the hashcode of the jar file to see if it has changed, so clients know i...

How to remove duplicate entries from visual studio web project?

I am working in a large team with multiple branches and merges happening on a regular basis. One thing that happens on regular basis is that web project files end up with duplicate entries for static content (.js, favicon.ico etc...). I have two methods to removing the duplicates: Delete the item in the Project Explorer (which remove...

For our next hire, should we hire a Java or HTML/Javascript/CSS Skill set?

Our Company is looking for new web developer. Our main tool is built in Java, and there is a relatively big list of things that we need to fix in the java layer, and then there are all the clients that we deploy every month and we do for them a lot of front end tasks in HTML/CSS/JavaScript. I am inclined in hiring someone with Java as...

What is a good tool to create a Website Architecture?

We use Balsamiq Mockup to create our website wireframes. After we have that approved we switch to visio to create site architecture. Is there any other tools to record architecture and be able to post functionality later in the process. I was looking into the following SO question, but we are looking for a tool that will allow us to s...

Can you prevent XSRF by including the session key in the params of all POST requests?

Will this idea work? It seems pretty stupid, because my app is simply checking that the browser sent two copies of the same information (ie the session key). Also, remembering to make this check sounds very tedious. Do web frameworks such as Rails and CakePHP have things that make it easier to write XSRF-proof web apps? ...

Slider in dashcode web app?

I am trying to make a web app in Dashcode that uses a range slider. I see that the code library has code for "get range slider value" and "set range slider value," but there is no range slider part. So how do I make a range slider? I'm very new to Javascript. ...

Does the latest Twitter/Facebook outage tell us we should not rely on them for login?

There are pros and cons for having the login process on the website done through Facebook Connect or Twitter sign in, rather than rolling your own registration process: Pros: use existing account -> less steps (registration/verification) get a lot of meta data such as first name, last name, address, etc. get list of friends -> easier...

wcf method access through web

Hi, i have a doubts in wcf and web application. i have a wcf service method. im accessing these methods from web application, it is working well. But my service not working after publishing my web. ...

Developing Web Application

I am a PHP developer who is seeking some guidance. I am developing a paid web application service. I have already developed the first phase of the project. The code is organized but I want to re-implement it in an MVC structure. I have just started using CodeIgniter for my freelance clients and it works really well. Question: What is ...

Web Application IPC/RPC with Client Applications

Background I'm at the planning stages of a DIY project that'll help me automate some hardware at my house. It's probably also worthwhile to mention that I've got almost no experience with web-related development. The Basics http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/4706/drawingo.png -- I can't seem to embed the diagram. In order to simplify ...

"Out of browser" web application running at Start-Up?

Hello, I've become familiar with the new concept of "out of browser" web applications, supported in the recent Silverlight, JavaFX, Adobe AIR etc. Listening recently to a podcast on the subject by Scott Hanselman, I've become aware that one of the purposes behind these new architectures is to allow for "desktop-application-feel". Also,...

WebSocket for HTML5

I am going to develop an instant messaging application that runs in the browser. What browsers support the WebSocket API? ...

Best way to define your web applicaion URLs

I've always found that defining URLs for other "pages" in a Web Application seems either clumbsy and fragile or bloated. E.g. you have an application that manages customers, sales, prospects and thus has the following "pages". customerlist viewcustomer editcustomer addcustomer viewcontact editcontact addcontact prospect (x3? x4?) sale...