web-applications

What could be good ways to deploy ASP.Net Web Applications?

We currently deploy web applications by creating a database and running SQL scripts through query analyzer. Then we copy the output from "publish website" and set up that website in IIS. We have seen websetup in visual studio, but that part seems to be thinly documented. For example, we are not clear how to ask the user for IP and pas...

How does one record audio from a Javascript based webapp?

I'm trying to write a web-app that records WAV files (eg: from the user's microphone). I know Javascript alone can not do this, but I'm interested in the least proprietary method to augment my Javascript with. My targeted browsers are Firefox for PC and Mac (so no ActiveX). Please share your experiences with this. I gather it can be done...

Java Servlet 404 errors

What culprits are the most likely to cause a 404 resource not found error when a page in a given .WAR, autocreated by Sun's J2EE deploytool, is trying to load a Servlet in the same .WAR file? Eg: HTTP Status 404 - /MyServlet/MyServlettype Status reportmessage /MyServlet/MyServletdescription The requested resource (/MyServlet/MyServ...

Is anyone using the ASP.NET MVC Framework on live sites?

Is it ready for that? I've been playing with it for a short amount of time and it seems quite reasonable. Is anyone using it for live sites? any issues to be aware of? ...

Which browsers your applications "officially" supports?

What browsers does your latest project "officially" support? For the browsers you chose not to support, what were the key reasons not to support them? ...

Packaging up Tomcat

Hi, In my job we have to deploy an application on various environments. It's a standard WAR file which needs a bit of configuration, deployed on Tomcat 6. Is there any way of creating a 'deployment package' with Tomcat so that you just extract it and it sets up Tomcat as well as your application? I'm not sure that creating a .zip file ...

Entities and Value Objects in Web Applications

We have a simple domain model: Contact, TelephoneNumber and ContactRepository. Contact is entity, it has an identity field. TelephoneNumber is typical value object: hasn't any identity and couldn't be loaded separately from the Contact instance. From other side we have web application for manipulating the contacts. 1st page is "ContactL...

Automated testing of FLEX based applications

What tools, preferably open source, are recommended for driving an automated test suite on a FLEX based web application? The same tool also having built in capabilities to drive Web Services would be nice. ...

Embedded Jetty serving static content with form authentication

Dear all, I try to use the Forms-Based authentication within an embedded Jetty 6.1.7 project. That's why I need to serve servlets and html (login.html) under the same context to make authentication work. I don't want to secure the hole application since different context should need different roles. The jetty javadoc states that a Con...

How can I exclude the bin folder from sourcesafe in a Visual Studio 2008 web application?

How can I exclude the bin folder from SourceSafe in a Visual Studio 2008 web application? I want to be able to check in everything recursively from the solution node without picking up anything in the bin folder. ...

Do you know any examples of a PAC design pattern?

Can anyone point to any websites or web applications that are using the Presentation-Abstraction-Control design pattern rather than MVC? Desktop applications are easy to find like this (e.g.; GIMP) but I'm looking for something on the web. ...

Best server-side framework for heavy AJAX Java application

There are zillions of Java web application frameworks. 95% were designed before the modern era of AJAX/DHTML-based development, and that means these new methods are grafted on rather than designed in. Has any framework been built from the ground up with e.g. GWT + Extjs in mind? If not, which framework has adapted best to the world of...

How to create a DOM from a User's input in PHP5?

I can't seem to find any decent info about this on the web. Any advice? ...

What would you recommend for a undergraduate final year project?

To narrow down the question, please suggest web-based topics only. To be honest, I'm struggling to find one for myself :) I'm doing Computer Science and looking for a web-based, individual project. A suitable topic would have a certain degree of novelty, so while you guys browsing the web everyday, what kind of things you expect but have...

how to get login credentials by openId?

Is is possible to get login credentials such as name/id if user does login by openId ...

Allow user@example or user@localhost in email validation?

I'm working on an email validation check and we need to decided whether to allow user@localhost and user@example (notice no .anything) to be validated as a valid email address. This is for an open source project that has a number of use cases on both the web at large and intranets. RFC 2822 (Internet Message Format Standard) allows it b...

Resending invitation/action emails

I've got a web app that sends out emails in response to a user-initaited action. These emails prompt the recipient for a response (an URL is included related to the specific action.) I've got some users asking for a "resend" feature to push that email again. My objection is that if the original email ended up in a spam folder (or didn...

Faces Servlet threw exception java.lang.StackOverflowError

Ok, I've run across my first StackOverflowError since joining this site, I figured this is a must post :-). My environment is Seam 2.0.1.GA, JBoss 4.2.2.GA and I'm using JSF. I am in the process of converting from a facelets view to JSP to take advantage of some existing JSP tags used on our existing site. I changed the faces-config...

What is the best process for a new ASP.NET web app from the ground up?

I am re-building our poorly designed web application from scratch, and wanted to get into TDD and basically "do things right" as kind of a learning project. What tools, processes, and resources are recommended to do it "right" from the start? I will be working alone as the architect and developer, with the backup of a business analyst ...

Preventing bad data input

Is it good practice to delegate data validation entirely to the database engine constraints? Validating data from the application doesn't prevent invalid insertion from another software (possibly written in another language by another team). Using database constraints you reduce the points where you need to worry about invalid input dat...