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Created by Dr. Xi on April 19, 2012 10:10:08
Last update: April 19, 2012 10:11:06
The default servlet for Tomcat is declared in $CATALINA_HOME/conf/web.xml :
<servlet>
<servlet-name>default</servle...
Therefore, static content is rendered by the default configuration unless you override it with your own definitions.
If you want to allow directory listing, just change the listing parameter to true :
<init-param>
<param-name>listings</para...
Change the welcome-file-list to display a default page in lieu of a directory listing:
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>home.xhtml</...
Welcome pages are defined at the Web application level.
Created by Fang on March 30, 2012 10:23:21
Last update: March 30, 2012 10:23:21
These bean types are essential for the Spring MVC framework. I copied them here from the Spring Documentation for quick reference. Bean type Explanation HandlerMapping Maps incoming requests to handlers and a list of pre- and post-processors (handler interceptors) based on some criteria the details of which vary by HandlerMapping implementation. The most popular implementation supports annotated controllers but other implementations exists as well. HandlerAdapter Helps the DispatcherServlet to invoke a handler mapped to a request regardless of the handler is actually invoked. For example, invoking an annotated controller requires resolving various annotations. Thus the main purpose of a HandlerAdapter is to shield the DispatcherServlet from such details. HandlerExceptionResolver Maps exceptions to views also allowing for more complex exception handling code. ViewResolver Resolves logical String-based...
Created by Fang on February 21, 2012 20:54:23
Last update: February 21, 2012 20:57:57
Tomcat gzip compression filter can be turned on with " compression=on " in server.xml :
<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
...
The default compressed MIME types are: text/html,text/xml,text/plain .
It would be nice to add other types:
<Connector
port="8080"
protocol="HTT...
Created by Fang on February 21, 2012 20:33:58
Last update: February 21, 2012 20:33:58
You can customize Tomcat error page with error code:
<error-page>
<error-code>404</error-code>
...
or Java exception type:
<error-page>
<exception-type>java.lang.Throwab...
Either error-code or exception-type is required, but not both. There's no way to aggregate error codes, such as:
<!-- This does not work! -->
<error-page>
...
Customizing error pages is about the only way to suppress the default stack trace in Tomcat in case of an unhandled exception.
Created by James on January 11, 2011 22:08:26
Last update: February 03, 2012 11:23:25
By default Firefox puts a dotted line box around the link or button label when you click them. Sometimes it's annoying and makes your sexy buttons look ugly. You can get rid of the dotted lines for links with outline:none in CSS, but that doesn't work for buttons.
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<style t...
For buttons you need " button::-moz-focus-inner { border: 0; } ":
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<style t...
I've also seen this:
/* get rid of those system borders being generated...
For more information :
Remove Button Focus Outline Using CSS
Created by Fang on January 31, 2012 15:40:34
Last update: January 31, 2012 15:41:28
This is a simple Hello World application with Spring 3 MVC. Like the default Apache HTTPd welcome page, it displays " It works! " when successfully deployed. The sole purpose is to show the minimum elements needed to setup Spring 3 MVC.
I use Maven since it's so much easier than downloading the dependencies manually.
Directory layout:
./src
./src/main
./src/main/webapp
./src/...
pom.xml :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project...
WEB-INF/web.xml :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app...
WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml (empty, but needed):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans x...
WEB-INF/spring-servlet.xml :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans x...
WEB-INF/jsp/home.jsp :
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>H...
Build with:
mvn clean package
The resulting webapp is target/springmvc.war .
Created by zhidao on January 26, 2012 20:37:45
Last update: January 26, 2012 20:37:45
There are 4 positioning styles in CSS: static : this is the default positioning style. Elements are positioned according to the normal flow of the page. fixed : the element position is fixed relative to the browser window, i.e., when you scroll, the element does not move with other contents in the page. relative : the element is positioned relative to its normal position (i.e., static position). You can use relative positioning to offset an element from its normal position. Other elements are positioned as if the relative positioned element were in its normal position. absolute : the element is positioned relative to the first ancestor element that is not static positioned. If all ancestor elements are static positioned, the element is positioned relative to...
Created by Fang on January 04, 2012 09:54:05
Last update: January 04, 2012 09:54:05
There are two ways to validate a form with JSF: jsf validation on the page with <f:validate...> tags (for example: <f:validateLength> , <f:validateRegex> , etc.), or JSR303 bean validation. This note is about how to customize messages for JSR303 bean validation. The validation message is specified in the message attribute for each validation annotation type. The mesage attribute is not a literal string, but a string that is interpolated in various ways. For example, the default validation message for AssertFalse is {javax.validation.constraints.AssertFalse.message} , which is replaced with the corresponding string in ValidationMessages.properties (or ValidationMessages_tr.properties , ValidationMessages_es.properties , depending on the locale). This is the contents of ValidationMessages.properties in the hibernate validator reference implementation:
javax.validation.constraints.AssertFalse.message =... To customize the messages, just provide the new value in...
Created by Fang on December 06, 2011 19:03:25
Last update: December 07, 2011 08:54:11
Our custom tag, as implemented in the previous note , is broken when a template is used.
Create a template file ( home-template.xhtml ):
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Stric...
and a test page that uses it ( home.xhtml ):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ui:comp...
Then request the page with URL: http://localhost:8080/facelet-demo/home.jsf?name=Jack .
You'll find that our hello tag works inside ui:repeat but fails to get the value defined by ui:param ! What's the problem? Our hello tag implementation evaluated the EL with the wrong EL context!
This is the corrected implementation:
package com.example;
import java.io.IOExcep...
Created by James on November 27, 2011 12:43:24
Last update: November 27, 2011 12:59:01
An easy to digest stylesheet example for XSLT for Atom. Simply list entry titles and summary:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:sty...
To show the first 3 items in atom feed:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:sty...
