Article: “We Crunched 1 Billion Java Logged Errors – Here’s What Causes 97% of Them”

A friend shared this article and I find it informative. Here are my notes: Steve Burton explained the challenge for engineers to troubleshoot production issues when the logs are filled with a large number of non-critical error messages. Not only this made troubleshooting of critical errors harder, it also has the following additional costs: “Disk storage to […]

HowTo: Setup GWT remote logging

I find the official documentation on remote logging wasn’t complete. Here are my notes based on various web sites I visited (here, here, and here). Hope this helps! App.gwt.xml You should add the inherits statement below. You should be able to adjust the log level to any of the following: ALL, FINEST, FINER, FINE, CONFIG, INFO, […]

Adding print feature to a GWT app

Enable print: I was able to add print feature to a GWT app by using gwt-print-it library. I used last example in the documentation to get the printing to work (see included code fragment below). Print.it(“<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC ‘-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN’ ‘http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd’>”, “<link rel=StyleSheet type=text/css media=paper href=/paperStyle.css>”, RootPanel.get(“myId”)); I had to use absolute URLs instead of […]

context-param and init-param in web.xml

I found a need to retrieve a configuration value in web.xml and found the following post useful.

JavaOne 2010 Related Links

Here are some information that I found on the net about JavaOne 2010. Feel free to comment with additional resources. To start, Oracle posted some video highlights. If you have JavaOne login, you can view the full versions at On Demand site. If not, you can still see some of the contents here. Beyond that, […]

Enabling Java 6 on Mac OS X

This post helped me to switch to Java 6. It’s simple and easy.

Java SE 6 on Mac OS 10.5.x

In response to a comment in this post, Apple has Java SE 6 Developer Preview available for download at this web site for Mac OS 10.5.x. Hope this helps.

Java SE on MacOS X 10.4 and 10.5

A friend told me that SoyLatte can support Java SE 6 on Leopard. If you experienced a similar issue as Scott Looze described here perhaps you can try SoyLatte.

NetBeans 6 beta 1 is more JavaScript friendly than earlier releases

I’ve been using NetBeans 6 beta 1 for a while now. Today I just found out that if I am working on a static file such as a JavaScript file, all I need to do is to redeploy the project to the local server instance to see the changes. No need to rebuild or recompile. […]

Java SE 6 Mac OS X 10.4.5 binary (Intel)

For some reason, Apple pulled the binary. With some effort, I was able to find this thread, which points to this link.

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