Using Maven for production deployment
We use Maven to manage dependencies during development. This entails adding a pom.xml file to our Eclipse project which defines the jars which the application depends. Maven then takes care… Read more »
Abbreviated component paths in wicket tester
Wicket tester combined with Mockito is fantastic for unit testing your web application. However, developing the tests is harder than it should be because you have to refer to components… Read more »
The Palchinsky Principles
My holiday reading this year was “Adapt” by Tim Harford. One of the most interesting parts was about Peter Palchinsky, a great russian engineer who was an advisor to both… Read more »
Wicket needs a component catalog
I’m a big fan of Apache Wicket, but there’s an urgent need for a better-organized component-ecosystem around Wicket. To write a real web application you need a framework (that’s Wicket)… Read more »
Shadowed variables in inner classes
Yesterday we had a bug caused by the following situation: a class X had a variable “user”. Class X had an inner, anonymous class extending class Y. Inside the inner… Read more »
Deciphering anonymous class references like MyPage$1$1$2
If you work with anonymous classes a lot (as Wicket applications do), you sometimes get confronted with compiler/tool messages referring to anonymous (inner) classes with names like MyPage$1$1$2 (for instance… Read more »
Wicket 1.4 and browser tabs
We had an amazingly annoying problem in a Wicket application. A specific user was continuously having problems with ajax controls on pages (search fields, auto-complete fields etc). The problems were… Read more »
monit – trust is good, control better
monit is a very cool system for keeping your linux servers working – highly recommended. With a few lines of configuration, you can have it check any aspect of your… Read more »
Java logging in development and production
Logging is tricky. Even some major open-source projects don’t do it correctly, so if you use their libraries, you end up with log files you didn’t ask for cluttering your… Read more »
Clustering scheduled jobs with Quartz and Terracotta
We’re using Quartz to handle scheduled jobs in our java applications. Since we cluster our apps for failover using Terracotta, we need to address the issue of how to failover… Read more »