Mark Binau

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Recent posts by Mark Binau

My children are reaching the age where they occasionally venture onto the internet. What do you use to monitor/control your children's internet access?

I use cox as my ISP at the house. Does anyone have experience with their parental control software?

Thanks,
Mark
18 years ago
I have been using WSAD for a short while in my day job and I really like it. At the office we deploy .ear files to our WAS environment.

Just for fun (on my own dime) I have also barely started to look at Eclipse and using it with Tomcat as the application server. Does the concept of an J2EE Enterprise Application (ear) project exist in Eclipse/Tomcat? In WSAD I can select New/Project/J2EE/Enterprise Application Project. In Eclipse, I don't have J2EE as a choice. Is there a plugin for this functionality?

In WSAD the GUI interface for the EAR (application) Deployment Descriptor allowed me to specify a utility project where I could keep classes that were common to multiple projects. Does this functionality exist for Eclipse?

Carlos, if I had read your book would I already know the answers to these questions?


Thanks,
Mark

WSAD is Eclipse 2.1 (maybe still 2.0 even) with a load of custom plugins.



WSAD 5.x is based on Eclipse 2.x. IBM's RAD (Rational Application Developer) is supposed to be based on Eclipse 3. Unless there is some specific feature you need in RAD or your company has deep pockets, you probably don't need to spend the money for RAD.
Thanks for the information. I was mistaken. We are running WebSphere Platform 5.1 [BASE 5.1.0.5 cf50427.04] [ND 5.1.0 b0344.02] [JDK 1.4.1.1 jdk0409.03]. I will at least upgrade to WSAD 5.1.2.

Is it correct that IBM has renamed WSAD 6 to Rational Application Developer? Have you worked with it yet? Does it have worthwhile new features? If you know of a web page with an indepenant review, please post it.

Thanks again,
Mark
I am using WSAD 5.1.0 to develop an application that is going to run on a WAS 5 server. The WAS 5 server is using JVM 1.4.1. The Websphere Test Environment (WTE) in WSAD is using JVM 1.3.1. Is there a way to change the JVM used by the WTE?

I tried using Window / Preferences / Java / Installed JREs to add a JRE pointing to my local 1.4 JRE directory, but System.getProperty("java.version") still reports 1.3.1. What did this change if it was not the WTE?

Thanks,
Mark
[ January 18, 2005: Message edited by: Mark Binau ]
There is a plugin that only works in Eclipse 3 that I would like to use in WSAD. Does anyone know when IBM plans to update WSAD to be based on Eclipse version 3?

Thanks,
Mark
I am using WSAD 5.1. When my code prints a stack trace to the console, most the lines are hot links and display the line number. The lines that display (Unknown Source) are the ones that pertain to the code I have written. There must be a way to make it recoginize my code, but I have not been able to find it yet. Can someone point me in the right direction? What keyword should I search for in the help.

Thanks,
Mark
Mike or anyone else,

I know that properties are not variables, but what do you do when you want a variable? I have sometimes been able use <property> nested inside an <ant> task, but this is not always ideal.

Any suggestions are appreciated. Or an explanation of why Ant does not support variables.

Thanks,
Mark
[ September 22, 2004: Message edited by: Mark Binau ]
19 years ago
Bill - Thanks a lot for the suggestion of Lucene. I have looked at it and found that it is not particulary adapted to JSP. It does not have web crawler and suggests that you write your own in the FAQ. I'm not looking to do that. There is a stalled sourceforge project called LARM that is looking to do this, but no one appears to be actively working on it.

There is another possible solution Java Search Engine. Does anyone have any experience with this one? If so, please post a comment about your experience.

Thanks In Advance,
Mark
19 years ago
JSP
I am fairly new to JSP. I am in the process of converting a site from MS FrontPage to JSP. The old site had a nifty little search form where a user could type in key words and it would return a list of links to pages within the site containing those key words. It used IIS front page extensions to accomplish this.

I'm sure that this is a common thing to do. What is an easy way to accomplish this functionality in JSP? Can you point me to a sample? Or where I should direct my research?

Thanks,
Mark
19 years ago
JSP
If you set the basedir="." in the project task, you can then use a condition to test ${basedir} and see what directory you are in which will include the drive.

Hope this helps.
Mark
19 years ago
Can a target depend on a target from another build xml file? If so, what is the syntax?

Thanks,
Mark
19 years ago
I am by no means certain, but my understanding is that an EAR file is just another archive and therefore I think you should be able to use <unzip>. Have you tried that?
19 years ago
I am by no means certain, but my understanding is that an EAR file is just another archive and therefore I think you should be able to use <unzip>. Have you tried that?
19 years ago