This is a step-by-step guide to create a "contract-first" web service with Apache CXF. It's a lot easier than doing the same thing with Spring-WS. The project uses standard Maven directory layout. Define the data types ( src/main/resources/hello.xsd ): <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/200... Define the service ( src/main/resources/hello.wsdl ): <?xml version='1.1' encoding='UTF-8'?> <wsdl:de... Create pom.xml : <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.... Generate jaxb bindings: $ mvn generate-sources Code the web service ( src/main/java/com/example/cxfdemo/HelloPortImpl.java ): package com.example.cxfdemo; import javax.j... Declare the CXF servlet in web.xml ( src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml ): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app... Wire up the web service implementation ( src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/cxf-servlet.xml ): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans x... Build the WAR: $ mvn clean package After the webapp is deployed (Tomcat running on port 8080), the web service (WSDL) is available via...

Spring-WS documentation says you can use a Jaxb object as parameter or return type, provided that it is annotated with javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement , or is an instance of javax.xml.bind.JAXBElement . But that's a lot easier said than done! For example, if sayHelloResponse is defined as: <xs:element name="sayHelloResponse" type="tns:sayH... then the JAXB generated class is not annotated with XmlRootElement , therefore, unusable for Spring-WS. You have to define the type as: <xs:element name="sayHelloResponse"> <xs:compl... in order to generate a type annotated with XmlRootElement . But that is not always possible. Alternatively, you can use the Maven plugin maven-jaxb2-plugin with the jaxb2-basics-annotate plugin (yes, plugin inside plugin) to inject the XmlRootElement annotation into the generated JAXB class. This is the pom: <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"... and the binding file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="y......

I was scared the first time I saw a bunch of random URL requests from Chrome on my proxy server. Was the copy of Chrome on my machine hacked? It turned out that there was a "deep" reason for the behavior. From Nico Weber : If you type in a single-word search query, chrome needs to send a DNS request to check if this might be a single-word host name: For example, "test" might be a search for "test" or a navigation to "http://test". If the query ends up being a host, chrome shows an infobar that asks "did you mean to go to 'test' instead". For perf reasons, the dns query needs to be asynchronous. Now some ISPs started showing ads for non-existent domain...

Spring MVC 3.1 can send either JSON or HTML response on the same URL, depending on the type of response requested. With this mechanism, a page can be sent when directly requested from a link, but a JSON response can be sent in response to an AJAX request. This is the controller code: package com.example; import java.util.Map; ... In the above example, JSON response will be sent when the HTTP request contains header "Accept: application/json". HTML response will be sent then the header is "Accept: */*", or "Accept: text/html", or anything else. You can add a limitation that the HTML response does not produce "application/json". But then the question is which response will be sent when the HTTP header is "Accept: */*"? Both methods will...

Version 1.6.4: <!-- jQuery --> <script type="text/javascript" ... Version 1.7.1: <script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.g... Google URL: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/documentation/#jquery

flowplayer is another way to embed Flash in a web page. The code looks like this: <object width="6400" height="380" data="swf/flowpl... You need to download two swf files: http://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer-3.2.1.swf http://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer.controls-3.2.0.swf

This example came from the jQuery validation documentation. The required rule can be used to validate a required selection box when you set the value of the first option to empty. <!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <scrip... The error message is the title since no error message is specified. A more fully defined validation check would look like this: $('#my-form').validate({ errorElement: "p", ...

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...

In the simple taglib example , I used a tag handler class to implement a taglib. This is an example to implement a taglib with a UI component. The purpose is to use a custom tag to split a string and print each part in a separate paragraph, i.e., print <p>john</p> <p>steve</p> <p>mike</p> with custom tag <my:foreach> : <my:foreach var="who" value="john steve mike"> ... These are the files: pom.xml <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"... src/main/java/com/example/UIForeash.java : package com.example; import java.io.IOExcep... src/main/resources/META-INF/faces-config.xml : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <faces-c... src/main/resources/META-INF/foreach.taglib.xml : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <facelet... How to use: Put the JAR file generated by the above project in the WEB-INF/lib folder of the web app. If the web app is a Maven project, just add the taglib project as a dependency:...

Alfresco community-4.0.b has only 64-bit installer for Linux. These are the steps to manually install it on 32-bit Ubuntu Linux. Download alfresco-community-4.0.b.zip from http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Download_and_Install_Alfresco . Install dependencies: $ sudo apt-get install imagemagick swftools postgr... Note: swftools was not available as a package for Ubuntu 11.10, I installed it with source . Create alfresco database: $ sudo bash [sudo] password for alfresco: ... Copy everything from the Alfresco web-server folder to Tomcat: $ cp -R alfresco-community-4.0.b/web-server/* apac... Edit $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/catalina.properties , change shared.loader to: shared.loader=${catalina.base}/shared/classes,${ca... Edit Tomcat conf file conf/server.xml , add URIEncoding="UTF-8" : <Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" ... Customize alfresco-global.properties : $ mv shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties.sam... Edit shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties : ############################### ## Common A... Copy keystore files from alfresco.war : expand alfresco.war , grab the whole keystore directory from...