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Recently I was irritated with some major headaches caused by Java’s date/time functionality. I spent a couple days debugging my code, and stepping through every possibility until coming to the realization, my code worked. So what was causing the discrepancy with my local machine, and the staging server? Apparently java uses /etc/localtime on linux, and the [...]
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The Eclipse WebTools team has released version 2.0 of the WebTools Platform along with the rest of the Europa release. From the release announcement: Eclipse developers will be particularly pleased with the debut of major features and/or specification [...]
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Web-based business applications require stringent security measures. Within a secure website, a user must be authenticated by the system and for each different user role a predetermined set of authorization rights must be imposed. This isn’t anything new, and luckily, there exists an open source Java security framework, known as Acegi, which makes the job [...]
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I’ve downloaded and hand-configured the latest Eclipse WTP builds for your convenience. I’d included the Subclipse SVN plugin as well. If there are any other plugins you’d like to see by default in the future, let me know. First of all, if you haven’t installed this update to the Java SWT libraries from Apple, do it [...]
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