I'm looking to start developing for the web using Java - I have some basic Java knowledge, so that's not a problem, but I'm at a loss when it comes to deciphering the various technologies for use in web applications. What options are available to me? How do they work? Are there any frameworks similar to Django/Ruby on Rails which I coul...
Do you know any solution to put a picture over a Flash? It must work in IE6, IE7, Firefox for Windows, MacOSX, Linux and Safari. ...
I have a web application that generates a long report and I need to print it. If I just print the page it will break at the end of the physical page. How can I calculate where to make a break in the web page so that the page breaks line up with the physical pages when they print? ...
Can anyone recommend a framework or basic technology to use to host a web service on a basic hosted web server? I have data in a mySQL database that will be accessed by the web service. ...
How would you, as a developer with little (or no) artistic inclination, design a GUI for an application? In particular, I'm thinking about desktop apps but anything that relates to Web apps is welcome as well. I find it extremely hard to design something that both I and potential users find pleasing. I can look up color schemes on the ...
What are some guidelines for factoring of web services? On one extreme you have different procedures for every operation, and expose all types through WSDL. This seems to result in the WS interface changing as often as the business logic. On the other, a generic interface where the types and validation are performed a layer down from ...
Hello, Can some describe the minimal conventional directory structure for a Java web app, and the minimal build.xml to get ant to build it, and make a war? Target for today is deploy a Wicket app to Tomcat outside of an IDE, just with ant and my favourite text editor. ...
I currently use my local web server to allow costumers to preview some applications and also to allow downloads of "nightly builds" of my open source library. Problem is I changed my ISP and now my port 80 is blocked. Altough I know I could easily change the port on the Apache server, I'd like to avoid that unless there's no alternati...
Hi, I am a CS student and I wanted to get some more experienced folks' opinion on the following: I have a strong background in the curly bracket languages, particularly C and Java, and have been working with php for about a year now and again. I am also currently interning at a PHP shop. My goal is to hopefully get a job in web develop...
Say you're coding some kind of web application. Something where people can contribute content, e.g. a simple photo-sharing site. How many good reasons can you think of to not go with an object-oriented database (e.g. db4o)? ...
I need to add functionality to my J2EE-based wep application: 1) Take some page, probably with form controls, convert it to some printer friendly format. 2) Print this rendered format a) without showing it and b) without a print dialog. I'm not too worried about 1, but have no idea if 2a and 2b are even possible. Thanks for any help. ...
Consider a regular web application doing mostly form-based CRUD operations over SQL database. Should there be explicit transaction management in such web application? Or should it simply use autocommit mode? And if doing transactions, is "transaction per request" sufficient? ...
Given that Chrome and Safari use webkit has anyone yet found anything that renders differently on Chrome than Safari? Is there any reason at the moment to test sites on both, or would testing Safari be sufficient for right now? ...
I work in an Oracle shop. There's a toolset that consists of roughly 1000 Oracle Forms (using the Forms builder from 6i, early 90's software) with Oracle 10g on the back end. It's serving roughly 500 unique people a month, with 200 concurrent connections at any given time during the work day. Obviously this is something that needs to ...
What techniques are there to prevent ballot stuffing in online polls while allowing anonymous users to vote? ...
I need to stream a file to the Response for saving on the end user's machine. The file is plain text, so what content type can I use to prevent the text being displayed in the browser? ...
Is exposing CRUD operations through SOAP web services a bad idea? My instinct tells me that it is not least of which because the overhead of doing database calls overhead could be huge. I'm struggling to find documentation for/against this (anti)pattern so I was wondering if anyone could point me to some documentation or has an opinion o...
We are trying to get our .NET devs to use the built in VS2208 web server for web devlopment instaed of a local instance of IIS. This is one of responses I received as to why some of our devs can't use it. "Our XXXX Online Sales application uses SSL to protect passwords. While Visual Studio does permit some basic web application developm...
Hi all, I'd like to call methods of my DAOs by AJAX. I'm quite new in that so I would like to ask what is the best way to do that. Is it possible to publish my beans as web services and call them with e.g. jQuery? I think it is not possible :) I've also read about Direct Web Remoting but I don't know which way to go... As I see, there...
Just wanted to get an idea for ways (web) developers get round the short fall of (most) WYSIWYG editors, whereby the users that are editing the text aren't always HTML literate enough to produce good/great results. In the past we have resigned ourselves to either locking down the editor or simply not supplying one. What are other peopl...