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Richfaces 3.3 comes with jQuery 1.3.2 and so you may find you want to use some newer features of jQuery that are only available in a later version. It is actually very easy to use a newer version of jQuery with Richfaces by simply including the newer version and then putting it into noConflict mode [...]
I previously had some maps defined as Spring beans in my applicationContext.xml file. An example of a basic Map is shown below: I wanted to make these all immutable and so Guava’s ImmutableMap seeemed the logical Map type to use. However, ImmutableMap is abstract so you can’t just do the following: Instead, thanks to help [...]
Recently after upgrading from Spring MVC 3.1.2.RELEASE to 3.2.0.RELEASE, all of our AJAX requests stopped working, and instead returned a 406 status code (see here for status code meanings). We were using Jackson 2.1.2, the following snippet from the pom.xml file shows the two dependencies: There were some changes made with the 3.2.0.RELEASE in regards [...]
This is really old news but I always forget which class to use when I need to provide a toString method that uses reflection to print out all the classes values ToStringBuilder.reflectionToString in the apache commons library gives this functionality. e.g. We are currently starting to use Guava as a Utility library and the class [...]
Amongst other tasks, in development we have a need occasionally to copy static content files into our web root from a network location. We decided to create a maven plugin to allow these tasks to be setup quickly on the command line (rather than having a collection of batch scripts to do this). Our maven [...]
We use docflex to build our XSD documentation, integrating with maven to produce XSD documentation in our maven site reports. I recently had to upgrade some developers from docflex-re 1.8.0 to 1.8.5, this migration went fine. For some reason it didn’t on my machine. I received the following error: Anyway to cut a long story [...]
Whilst upgrading our build to use Maven 3 and the reporting to use the maven-site-plugin 3.0-beta-3 I used the following steps to upgrade the reporting. When I ran the build it failed With the message The plugin I was using (a version of the maven css validation plugin that I have modified to generate reports) [...]
Although Eclipse validates our xml documents, sometimes invalid xml documents can get committed into our source repository by accident. Using the maven xml-maven-plugin we can force the build to break when xml documents aren’t welformed. Currently we are only doing the check on facelets (files with a .xhtml extension): The xml snippet below shows the [...]
A great article was recently posted on the Sonatype blog on the top 10 reasons to move to Maven 3 It will be interesting to see if there is a significant speed increase, as it will be nice to reduce the time of our main nightly build which usually takes about 90-95 minutes. Luckily, Hudson [...]