Terry Rappatillo

Hello, I recommend you'd have a look of IntelliJ IDEA.

Hello Dmitry, do you have any plans to improve the web service support in IDEA? AFAIK, web services are currently supported via thirtd party plugin called WebServicesPlugin and it supports technologies like AXIS.

What I'm currently looking for is an easier creation and a test bed of JAX-WS based web services. I've got some EJB3 based facades that are turned into web services just with an appropriate annotations.

Regards, Tero

Dear Dmitry, I saw a conversation on web that one of the following releases of IDEA'd introduce a quirks mode incompatibility checker. I think feature like that is really useful as modern applications are more and more browser-driven these days and are required to function properly on many different web browsers.

Do you have any plans to implement javascript debugger directly into IDEA or as a separate plugin in the near future? I think It'd be useful to have a debugger when doing something more complicated with javascript e.g. when web application exhanges SOAP messages with a web service that's rather general in applications that takes advantage of AJAX technologies.

According to my knowledge the HTML Preview plugin is Mozilla-based. Would it be possible to incorporate the javascript debugger Mozilla has into IDEA as well?

Regards, Tero

Originally posted by Jothi Shankar Kumar Sankararaj:
So, how can I use intelliJ to connect to a database??

Have a look of plugins like SQL Query plugin or DBHelper. They're very decent, IMHO.

Regards, Tero

Hello, how does one filter what's diplayed on Scope: Project view? I'm looking for something that Eclipse has in the package explore view: a mask where one can define a pattern of files which are excluded e.g. files that are generated by ant task etc.

Or more preferably I'd love to have the SVN plugin to support ignore properties.

Best regards, Tero

There's a separate installer for the version that supports Unicode - at least in the PRO edition of JCreator.

Which version do you use - PRO or LE?

Originally posted by Stan James:
[QB]I'm a total novice in this area (except for 20 years on IBM's mainframe VM) but this bit:

didn't seem to match what Xen claims. They say that future versions of Windows may have hooks that will let Xen run them. I skimmed a Xen architecture whitepaper and it seems to require more OS level customization than VMWare and interestingly works more easily on Intel.

Ah, sorry. It's been a while I've checked Xen's web pages last time and this windows support seems to be quite fresh thing.

Originally posted by Stan James:
I was reading about Xen just before I read this. Free, Intel based, runs many different OSs (at the same time!) on top of the VM. Robust enough for hosting sites that let you run anything you like on your virtual server.

There's also a commercial product that bases on same techniques than Xen: Virtuozzo.

Here's a short comparison of the virtualization techniques used in Xen, Virtuozzo and VMWare.

Xen and Virtuozzo both virtualizes the host O/S by partitioning it as separate independent nodes. This means that these guest machines needs to run same O/S than the computer running virtualization software: linux on linux-based host and windows on windows-based host. In some situations this is very desired. With approach like this, one can achieve lower virtualization overhead. Guest machines supports same devices etc. than the host O/S.

VMWare (Workstation and GSX Server) instantiates a copy of the hardware of the actual physical machine for each virtual machine a.k.a. guest machine running on the computer. This generates larger virtualization overhead, but makes it possible to use different operating systems in both host and virtual machines. Guest machines supports devices that VMWare supports.

Hello,

Originally posted by Chetan Parekh:
Does VMWare comes with preinstalled Linux of any flavor ?

What do you mean with pre-installed linux? VMWare workstation and VMWare GSX server products runs on top of linux or windows just like any other regular application so they require linux to be installed before being able to install VMWare. VMWare ESX server makes an exception: it doesn't require any pre-installed O/S as it implements own O/S like platform for running virtual machines.

I guess you meant whether VMWare's got to offer a pre-configured linux-based guest machine? There are quite many vendors out there providing virtual machines for different kind of purposes. Please see Virtual Machine Center for more information. At the time of writing this, there're prebuilt virtual machines for Red Hat, SuSe and Ubuntu linux.

HTH, Tero

Hello all, I'm creating a tiny web site using struts, tiles and jstl-powered jsp pages. I've got some business logic included in javabeans and used in action classes, but there's nothing complicated involved here like EJBs or such.

I'm pointing my browser to <http://localhost:8080/site/main.do>. The problem is that I get an exception called IllegalArgumentException telling me that the tile I'm forwarding to at the end of my action class should be absolute. This tile is named as ".main" like suggested in many howtos. Execution never gets to my jsp pages.

Any ideas how to fix this or good pointers where to continue reading valid information? I've been spending hours and again hours reading out of dated documents and howtos, but without any luck.

Please see the following exact error message.

500 Servlet Exception java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: request dispatcher url `.main' must be absolute at com.caucho.server.webapp.Application.getRequestDispatcher(Application.java:1912) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.doForward(RequestProcessor.java:1062) at org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor.doForward(TilesRequestProcessor.java:274) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processForwardConfig(RequestProcessor.java:455) at org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor.processForwardConfig(TilesRequestProcessor.java:320) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:279) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1482) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:507) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:115) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:92) at com.caucho.server.dispatch.ServletFilterChain.doFilter(ServletFilterChain.java:106) at com.caucho.server.cache.CacheFilterChain.doFilter(CacheFilterChain.java:209) at com.caucho.server.webapp.WebAppFilterChain.doFilter(WebAppFilterChain.java:178) at com.caucho.server.dispatch.ServletInvocation.service(ServletInvocation.java:229) at com.caucho.server.http.HttpRequest.handleRequest(HttpRequest.java:267) at com.caucho.server.port.TcpConnection.run(TcpConnection.java:388) at com.caucho.util.ThreadPool.runTasks(ThreadPool.java:490) at com.caucho.util.ThreadPool.run(ThreadPool.java:423) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resin-3.0.17 (built Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:11:34 PST)

Here's my tiles-definition.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <tiles-definition> <definition name="_base" path="/common/layout.jsp"> <put name="header" value="/common/header.jsp"/> <put name="body" value="/common/body.jsp"/> <put name="footer" value="/common/footer.jsp"/> </definition> <!-- Main page --> <definition name=".main" extends="_base"> <put name="body" value="/main.jsp"/> </definition> <!-- Products page --> <definition name=".products" extends="_base"> <put name="body" value="/products.jsp"/> </definition> <!-- Services page --> <definition name=".services" extends="_base"> <put name="body" value="/services.jsp"/> </definition> <!-- Company page --> <definition name=".company" extends="_base"> <put name="body" value="/company.jsp"/> </definition> <!-- Contact page --> <definition name=".contact" extends="_base"> <put name="body" value="/contact.jsp"/> </definition> </tiles-definition>

Here's my struts-config.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.1//EN" "http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_1.dtd"> <struts-config> <data-sources /> <form-beans> <form-bean name="MainPageForm" type="fi.x.site.ui.form.MainPageForm"/> </form-beans> <global-exceptions /> <global-forwards> <forward name="logoff" path="/logoff.do"/> <forward name="logon" path="/logon.jsp"/> </global-forwards> <action-mappings > <!-- Main page [1] --> <action path="/main" type="fi.x.site.main.ui.action.MainPageAction" scope="request"> <forward name="success" path=".main"/> </action> <!-- Products page --> <action path="/products" type="fi.x.site.products.ui.action.MainPageAction" scope="request"> <forward name="success" path=".products"/> </action> <!-- Services page --> <action path="/services" type="fi.x.site.services.ui.action.MainPageAction" scope="request"> <forward name="success" path=".services"/> </action> <!-- Company page --> <action path="/company" type="fi.x.site.company.ui.action.MainPageAction" scope="request"> <forward name="success" path=".company"/> </action> <!-- Contact page --> <action path="/contact" type="fi.x.site.contact.ui.action.MainPageAction" scope="request"> <forward name="success" path=".contact"/> </action> </action-mappings> <message-resources parameter="fi.x.site.common.ui.data.ApplicationResources"/> <plug-in className="org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn"> <set-property property="pathnames" value="/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml"/> </plug-in> <plug-in className="org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesPlugin"> <set-property property="definitions-config" value="/WEB-INF/tiles-definition.xml"/> <set-property property="moduleAware" value="true"/> <set-property property="definitions-debug" value="2"/> <set-property property="definitions-parser-details" value="2"/> <set-property property="definitions-parser-validate" value="true"/> </plug-in> <controller processorClass="org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor"/> </struts-config>

[1] This is the tile I'm trying to get to function. When it does, I'll proceed with the others then.

And here's my web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="2.4" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee <a href="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"></a> <servlet> <servlet-name>action</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet</servlet-class> <init-param> <param-name>config</param-name> <param-value>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name>application</param-name> <param-value>ApplicationResources</param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name>debug</param-name> <param-value>255</param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name>detail</param-name> <param-value>255</param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name>validate</param-name> <param-value>true</param-value> </init-param> <load-on-startup>3</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>action</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>/index.jsp</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list> </web-app>

And here's the code of my action class:

// $Header$ package fi.x.site.main.ui.action; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.logging.Level; import java.util.logging.Logger; import javax.servlet.ServletException; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse; import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession; import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm; import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForward; import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping; import fi.x.site.common.ui.action.BaseAction; /** * @author Tero Ripattila <Tero.Ripattila@example.tld> * @version $Id$ */ public class MainPageAction extends BaseAction { private final String SESSION_ERROR_MESSAGES = "error_messages"; private final String SESSION_ERROR_COLUMNS = "error_columns"; static protected final Logger log = Logger.getLogger(MainPageAction.class.getName()); /** * */ public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception { log.log(Level.INFO, "MainPageAction::execute called."); HttpSession session = request.getSession(); try { session.setAttribute("foo", "bar"); return mapping.findForward("success"); } catch (Exception e) { System.err.println ("[ERROR] MainPageAction: :-P erform at final " + "catch: " + e.getMessage()); e.printStackTrace(); throw new ServletException(e); } } /** * */ public ActionForward doPerform(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException, ServletException { log.log(Level.INFO, "MainPageAction: :mrgreen: oPerfom called."); try { // :TODO: return execute(mapping, form, request, response); } catch (Exception e) { System.err.println ("[ERROR] MainPageAction: :-P erform at final " + "catch: " + e.getMessage()); e.printStackTrace(); throw new ServletException(e); } } }

TIA, Tero

[ January 12, 2006: Message edited by: Tero Ripattila ]
[ January 13, 2006: Message edited by: Tero Ripattila ]

Hello Lloyd, I'd suggest having a look of the following pages:

[1] <http://www.caucho.com/resin-3.0/features/resin-3.0.8.xtp#PHP>;

[2] <http://www.caucho.com/resin-3.0/thirdparty/php.xtp>;

I guess FastCGIServlet would solve your problem even you're using an old version of Resin.

Best regards, Tero

Hello Peter,

Originally posted by Peter Mount:
I'm looking for a choice of IDE/Java editor for Windows that I can use for everything if possible. This is my situation:

UltraEdit was recomended to me and I'm also looking at Textpad (which seems a reasonable cost to license), JCreator and jEdit. I'd prefer a free choice if possible though I'll consider ones that are less than $100 US. Which of these would people recomend? It would certainly save space on my hard drive if I can use just one for everything.

I've been using Ultraedit and JCreator for years now and I think that both of them are definitely worth of their license fees. I'd suggest that you take both of them as they complements each others very well.

HTH, Tero

Personally I'm using JCreator for debugging Resin apps. I can also recommend JSwat and MyEclipse.

I'd recommend Resin from Caucho Technology, Inc..
[ July 22, 2005: Message edited by: Tero Ripattila ]