Time Zones and Java Web Applications
The TimeZone (as well as the locale and encoding) are retrieved by the JVM from the operating system. This in my opinion is not a good decision, but that’s notContinue reading
On Domain-Driven Design, Anemic Domain Model, Code Generation, Dependency Injection and More…
Eric Evans has formulated what domain-driven design (DDD) is. Martin Fowler is a great supporter and advocate of DDD. These are remarkable names and it is almost certain they areContinue reading
UI for Managing PKI, Instead of keytool or openssl
This blogpost shares a wonderful utility – portecle – GUI for managing PKI Update: KeyStore explorer seems good as well
The Psychology of Voting and Choice (on Stackoverflow and in General)
Voting is at the center of http://stackoverflow.com (a programming Q&A site), and at the center of democracy (at least such are the claims). How and why do people vote? TodayContinue reading
Appeal to API Designers
If a developer has used the Java security APIs he already knows what’s ahead. That’s not the only example, alas, but I’ll be using it to illustrate my point. TheseContinue reading
Using Multiple ELResolvers with CompositeELResolver in JSF
Imagine the case where you have a JSF application that’s already using some custom ELResolver, but you want to get all the benefits of spring and want to have theContinue reading
Tips for Identifying and Debugging Problems
It seems that some/many developers haven’t developed (pun intended) a good set of techniques to identify and resolve problems. And problems always occur, even in simple programs. Recently I’ve beenContinue reading
Spring Annotation-Based vs XML-Based Transaction Definition Precedence
I couldn’t find a definitive answer to this in the docs, and although there seems to be a logical answer, one can’t be sure. The scenario is this – youContinue reading
Are Tests of Service Methods That Rely on Database Access Unit Tests?
It is often argued whether tests that need a database should be called “unit tests”. Most often the answer is “No, these are database integration tests”. My opinion is –Continue reading
JAXB: javax.xml.bind.UnmarshalException: unexpected element
JAXB: [javax.xml.bind.UnmarshalException: unexpected element (uri:”http://mynamespace/”, local:”entity”). Expected elements are ({}entity)] The following exception broadly means that an element encountered during unmarshallization isn’t found in the JAXB Context. The details, howeverContinue reading