Create a WAR file for a GWT application

After I was so spoiled by GWT/Eclipse’s streamlined way of deploying a GWT application to the embedded server or Google App Engine, I was annoyed by how little support it has for other application servers. Fortunately, I was able to semi-automatically generate a WAR file for manual deployment on a remote server by following this […]

GWT SimplePager

It’s unfortunate that my initial experience with GWT’s SimplePager wasn’t very positive. The paging behaviour toward end of the list showed the following: For the last page, pager would attempt to request record count at last index + page size. This would cause pager to go index array out of bound. i.e. Let’s say you […]

GWT dev mode remote access

I needed to access the GWT build-in server for Eclipse from another machine. A search on-line led me to this tutorial. It worked! 🙂

Using Subversion externals for files

I needed to use Subversion externals property to define a reference to a file. Based on this blog, here are my notes: Let’s say that you want to have Subversion to use the following file from another directory: https://mysvnserver.com/svn/shared/lib/thelib.jar And have the file download into the following file in your project: myproject/lib/thelib.jar You should have […]

Skype on Fedora 13 x64

I came across this howto and found it very useful.

Google Form

Google Form is a pretty cool survey tool. It is relatively easy to use in general. Once you wish you insert a picture, it can get complex very quickly.

RichFaces: Submit on enter key

I needed to allow users to press enter key to submit a form. To do that, I started with the example shown here. Then I altered the example with a selector attribute documented here to apply the hot key feature to only that component.

RichFaces: open a pop-up window

This thread was helpful for me to create a button that opens a new window. However, I had to move the script into onclick part of the button, instead of creating a separate jsFunction.

Duplicate records

Here is a sql statement that identify duplicate records.

Useful troubleshooting sites

Here are a few useful links that helped me to resolve a few issues. 😉 JBoss EJB Troubleshooting guide jboss-web.xml configuration JBOSS JNDIView tool JBOSS EJB Configuration JBOSS JEB references The Hibernate Query Language

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