web-applications

Mapping texture to 3D objects in a batch process on the server

Hi, we have the following use case: the user uploads her picture on a web server at a later time - on the server - the picture(s) are mapped on predefined 3D objects and stored as normal images (png, jpeg, ...). For now just the front-view. The files will be deleted once the session ends. show them in normal img tags to the user In ...

What is an ORM in a web application ?

I recently got a reply from a server company asking if we are using an ORM in our application which does all the work of sifting application side (like Rails) or if we write reams of SQL, embedded functions etc which would make the database server do the processing for you. Can anyone explain what is meant by this. Our web application ...

how to authenticate user of ASP.NET web service which is part of ASP.NET web application?

I have a C# ASP.NET 3.5 web application which uses forms authentication. Users log in with their username and password on login.aspx, are authenicated using a custom authentication logic and are then directed to input.aspx, where they enter some parameters and get response on output.aspx. If they try to access input.aspx without authenti...

Best practice for handling environment specific settings for a Java web app?

I have a Java web app that offloads some environment specific settings (Hibernate configurations, required directory paths, etc.) in a properties file that is ultimately packaged in the deployed WAR. If I wish to distribute this web app, what's the best way to handle the mangement of these settings? It's not feasible to ask the user to...

Finding paths for packaged non-java files at runtime

So this might be a stupid question but... I want to package a specific WSDL file in with an EJB project within eclipse. What would be the best way to refer to this file in my code? I would like to use a relative path but the current directory starts off in the /bin directory of my JBOSS installation. It seems like there should be a wa...

Storing properties in JNDI? Environment specific locations.

I want access to a storage folder but its actual location can vary with environments. Could I store properties into JNDI or do something similar to a datasource in JBOSS? How would I go about it? Thanks. ...

Zero-configuration, automated, random testing tools for web-apps?

In short, I'm looking for a tool to perform an automated, zero-configuration, full-frontal assault on a web application. I'm thinking this would logically be a browser-extension that both crawls links on a given domain/path, AND randomly inputs data into forms and submits them. Specifically, form input would randomly include various dat...

Embed the web application in to the windows application

I have a web application, I would like to embed the web application in the window application.. Like if i click the icon in the windows, it should open a window along with that site.. Need to disable the right click and menu properties and every thing.. Some one told that we can do it via .Net.. Is there any other way to do that.. Co...

When is the optimization really worth the time spent on it?

After my last question, I want to understand when an optimization is really worth the time a developer spends on it. Is it worth spending 4 hours to have queries that are 20% quicker? Yes, no, maybe, yes if...? Is 'wasting' 7 hours to switch a task to another language to save about 40% of the CPU usage 'worth it'? My normal iteration ...

what is application server? What are Rich Internet Applications?

I'm from a PHP background. All I know is that web server handles the http request PHP interpreter that is embedded into web server compiles the PHP script The result of above will be HTML, which is returned to client again by the webserver. Now, I don't understand one thing. what is application server? What is the difference between...

How to set up website periodic tasks?

Hello, I'm not sure if the topic is appropiate to the question... Anyway, suppose I've a website, done with PHP or JSP and a cheap hosting with limited functionalities. More precisely I don't own the server and I can't run daemons or services at my will. Now I want to run periodic (say every minute or two) tasks to do certain statistics...

Android Webapp hide scrollbar?

Hello, is there a way (through javascript/jquery/css) to hide the scrollbar in android's web browser? Can't seem to find any valid info online and things that work for Google Chrome (webkit engine, as well) don't seem to work for the Android's browser. Thanks bunches ...

Is it possible to receive a web client request from a reserved IP block ?

My webapp received a request from 10.18.255.249 (but the 10.0.0.0/9 cidr block is reserved) according to https://www.arin.net/knowledge/rfc/rfc1918.txt How is this even possible? ...

Why isnt Properties.Settings.Default being saved?

I wrote this to quickly test Why arent my settings being saved? The first time i run this i have 3(old)/3(current) elements. The second time i get 3(old)/5(current), third time 5(old)/5(current). When i close the app the settings completely disappear. Its 3 again when i run it. I made no changes to the app. Why arent my settings being...

what is the actual use of jquery ?

what is the actual use of jquery ? Just the richness ? ...

User interface suggestions / navigation ideas (mockup images provided)

I have a number of graphs I'd like to display, each one with a corresponding text. With the size of the area to the left as your only constraint, I'd appreciate suggestions on how to make the interface intuitive and stimulating (if there's any contradiction?). In this mockup, there are basically 2 modes: 1) A graph tree menu is shown ...

Open source ASP.NET Gantt Chart Web Control

anyone know where I can get a Open source ASP.NET Gantt Chart / Web Control Thanks ...

Java - Authenticate user using web application's security framework without Http requests

Hi, So I have a Tomcat server within a Java web application, authentication is done using Tomcat's usernames and passwords specified in the tomcat-users.xml file, and form based authentication (posting to *j_security_check*). I have now also registered a remote object (using Java RMI) that I want to access from outside of the web contex...

To deploy the web application made using VIsual Studio Web Develper tool 2005 express edition

I have installed Web Developer Tool with .NET fraework 2.0 . How can i deploy the pages made via this and see its working dynamically on my browser window. Also the by-default language is VB, can i change by default script page to C# scripting if i have C# module installed in my system ...

XML Retrieval - through function calls or temp files?

We are creating an application for a client's website. The website will make a function call to our application to generate XML data. The web service then must retrieve this data. Would it be best for us to return the XML data as a part of our function, or would we be better to create temp files? If creating temp files is the better ...