The apache.commons.lang package has a nice utility to escape strings for various language environments. Simply include the dependency in pom.xml : <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.commons</... and use it: // import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringEscapeUti...

Dojo ShrinkSafe: http://shrinksafe.dojotoolkit.org/ : command line utility written in Java, based on Rhino - JavaScript engine written in Java. Douglas Crockford's JSMIN: http://crockford.com/javascript/jsmin : command line utility written in C, can download MS-DOS exe. Dean Edwards' Packer: http://dean.edwards.name/packer/ : online tool, or .NET, Perl, PHP application. YUI Compressor: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/compressor/ : command line utility written in Java. Google Closure Compiler : command line Java application, web application, or RESTful API. One problem is, the compressor utility may not be 100% reliable. So make sure to test the compressed script.

Processing.js is an open programming language for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions for the web without using Flash or Java applets. Processing.js uses Javascript to draw shapes and manipulate images on the HTML5 Canvas element. The code is light-weight, simple to learn and makes an ideal tool for visualizing data, creating user-interfaces and developing web-based games. URL: http://processingjs.org/

This is a simple web application with a single servlet and a single JSP page. It is intended to be a test bed for JSTL tags. You may want to store all syntax, rules, and exceptions in your head, but in my opinion nothing beats a simple test program that allows you play with it all you want. So here it is (build with Maven ). Prerequisites: Maven: http://maven.apache.org/ . You don't need any prior knowledge of Maven, but you need to install the binary. JBoss: http://jboss.org/jbossas/downloads/ , or Tomcat: http://tomcat.apache.org/ if you don't run the SQL tests. You need to know how to deploy a web application (shh! Don't tell your boss it's just copying a file to the deployment folder). Steps: The directory...

In this note I'll show you how to create and package a JSP custom tag. The purpose of this tag is to display a random splash image for a home page, among a set of images. We should be able to add or delete candidate splash images from the WAR archive without the need to change the JSP. This is the intended use of the tag: <%@ taglib uri="http://custom.tag.com/demo" prefix... In the above example you provide a set of images named splash*.png (e.g., splash1.png, spalsh2.png, ...), and the tag will pick a random one to display when the JSP is rendered. Let's get started. I'll use Maven for this purpose. Create the standard Maven directory structure ./pom.xml ./src ./src/main ./src/main/jav... pom.xml <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"... SplashTag.java package tagdemo; import java.util.ArrayList......

The replace method for JavaScript strings can either replace a string or a regular expression: // replace string with string 'ActionScript'.re...

Remember the times when you googled for solutions to your technical problems? How much time did you spend on wading through the zillions of links to find the ones that are of interest to you? Wouldn't you hope that you can find the answer right away the second time around? How many times were you forced to peruse hundreds of pages of documentation for a very specific need? Did you ever need to experiment with various alternatives because the documentation was vague? Wouldn't you prefer that a shortcut is available when the same thing is needed again? Xinotes is here to record your technical findings so that you won't have to go through the same process again when the problem reappears. Experience has taught us...

You can use applet , object , or embed tags to embed an applet in your HTML page. However, The applet tag is interpreted by both IE and Mozilla family of browsers. The applet tag won't automatically download a JRE if the Java Plug-in isn't already installed. The object tag works only for IE The embed tag works only for Mozilla family of browsers, i.e., Firefox. Use applet tag: <applet code="MyApplet.class" width="200" ... Use object tag: <!-- latest JRE --> <OBJECT classid="clsid:... Use embed tag: <!-- highest JRE that supports MIME type ... Mixed object and embed tag: <object classid="clsid:8AD9C840-044E-11D1-B3E9... You need to use a different name for the Mozilla embed tag and use that name to refer to the applet...

The scriptable attribute defaults to false . However, even when you set it to true , there is a time delay between when the applet is loaded and when it becomes scriptable . The following code may fail: <html><body> <object classid="clsid:8AD9C840-04... You need to wrap the JavaScript like this: <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascrip...

Your code will be syntax highlighted when you specify the language of your code with the BBcode code tag: [code=lang] Your code here [/code] where "lang" is the language of your code. For example, the following Perl code #!/usr/bin/perl print "Hello World!\n"; is rendered with: [code=perl] #!/usr/bin/perl print "Hel... The following are supported languages and their corresponding names for BBcode: Apache conf: apacheconf, aconf, apache Bash... The full list is available from http://pygments.org/ , which is our backend engine for syntax highlight rendering.

For example, you want to output a JavaScript array with <c:forEach/> . You want a comma in between the elements but not after the last element: <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"...