Spring 3 has excellent support for mapping URLs to @Controller methods through the @RequestMapping annotation. This works quite well and i especially like the fact having the mapping right next to the method and not in some other config file like routes.rb. My goal was to have urls like http://foobar.com/resource, http://foobar.com/resource.html, http://foobar.com/resource.zip etc. This is […]
Wow, this has driven me nuts… Most J2EE developers will know the ugly-as-hell ;jsessionid=BLAHBLAHBLAH appended as a path parameter to all urls of an application on the first call of a page that creates a session. Tomcat as of version 6 has the possibility to add the attribute ‘disableURLRewriting=”true”‘ to the context of the application […]
Lately i’ve been rambling and ranting a lot on twitter about the Grails framework. To my surprise, many other developers actually read this tweets and helped me out on some problems. Thanks a lot gals and guys, i really appreciate that. Me rambling isn’t meant to be personal at any time, i guess you know […]
Why is it, that you have to take at least 2 heavy frameworks (Spring and Hibernate), a scripting addition to Java (Groovy) and build another layer on top of it to achieve a fraction of RoRs functionality? At least, i seems to look nice… a lot of xml configuration madness less, nice urls and so […]
Beruflich habe ich gerade mit einer Webanwendung zu tun, die mit Spring realisiert ist. Spring macht ähnlich viel Spaß wie Ruby und ist bis jetzt das erste J2EE Framework, dass mir von Anfang zusagte und es auch schaffte, mich zu begeistern. Die Webanwendung ist komplett UTF-8 basiert. Soweit so gut. Leider mußte ich feststellen, dass […]