Here at Web Inspired we right a lot of java. We are not big fans of php (it scares us from a security standpoint). We substitute jsf for php. We feel jsf is superior because the pages are backed by object oriented java code. We use log4 j to handle our logging. We like log4j because it is very easy to set up, it's customizable and it just works.  [Read More]

I am running glassfish Edition 3.1 (build 43) on linux. I was getting an odd, Context is already active error when i would try and run an application that i had running on my windows install of glassfish. The application was built with netbeans 7.0.1. It was running flawlessly on windows/glassfish. I tried everything to get the app to load on linux.. The only solution i found was to remove the beans.xml file...[Read More]

I decided to look into Flash/Flex <--> Java communications... I really love Flex and actionscript. Its a great tool for building forms. It has its limitations in that it really does nothing on the server side. I also love Java programming although i consider java front ends to be kinda tedious. I always thought using Flex as a front end for Java applications would be great, so i decided to write a bit of an infrastructure. I also want to try comets socket's with this infrastrucuture when i get some time.[Read More]