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A few weeks ago I wrote about reasons why you might want to invest some time in learning and using maven: “Everything maven Part I”. Now it’s time to roll up our sleeves and get down into guts of maven. In this article, I’ll describe how you can use Maven to build and deploy a [...]

If Aqualogic PT Tags were a character on MTVs Real World, it would surely be the difficult to understand, moody, and unpredictable one. Part of the misunderstanding comes from the cryptic tag library documentation and general lack of real world examples. PT Tags give you the ability to use out-of-the-box coding logic within simple HTML pages. [...]

Each time you write a new Java portlet you may have noticed that there is definitely a set of common steps that need to be completed. For example, even though the functionality of portlets may be completely different, you can always be sure that you’ll have to do things like setting up a classpath, configuring [...]

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open-source web development toolkit that facilitates building rich, Javascript-based applications entirely through Java coding. It is very useful in speeding up complex application development, as well as in multi-developer projects where Java’s static typing enforces convention across the board. Function1 has employed GWT in the development of its product [...]

These are exciting times with Aqualogic (ALI) and its direction as a Portal technology after Oracle’s acquisition of BEA Systems.  Some of our ALI clients have decided to migrate off ALI’s Content Management System (CMS), Publisher, and adopt a different platform; e.g. Adobe Contribute. While others are embracing the new Portal CMS Web Center Interaction [...]

OK, now that you had your dinner and ate your meat, it’s time for the pudding.  This conclusion to Stack Wars just ties up a few loose ends and walks through a “real-world” example of analyzing stack traces.  Have fun… Making Thread dumps easier to view Seeing as how most people’s idea of a good time [...]

READER BEWARE: This got long and geeky, so make sure you’re really trying to avoid doing “real work” before you sit down to read. Welcome back all, and thanks for joining me for the final installment of a three part series on decompiling Java code and analyzing stack traces. If you’re interested in the back [...]

It’s been a while since we touched on AJAX, but a question came up recently about it an I thought it might be good to review. AJAX, or “Asynchronous JavaScript and XML”, is a way for portlet developers to create rich Web Applications that don’t require the entire browser page to refresh to update content.  [...]

Howdy all. Welcome to part two of three of what was originally conceived as a one part series. It’s entirely possible that I’ll get all George Lucas on you years from now and produce some more of these posts that are a complete letdown and affront to your childhood memories, but I digress. For now, [...]

Yeah, this one is only marginally useful, can only be considered a “Cool Tool” in the broadest sense of the title, and not nearly as fun of an Easter Egg as we’ve posted in the past, but it’s neat to check out JavaScript internals of the portal nonetheless. Basically, open up your portal in FireFox (this [...]