Life of the IT-Drummer

To combine Ruby and Java might seem like a challenge, but it’s actually quite easy using the Spring Framework. Feel free to follow along with my simple step by step instructions. I make programming FUN! These examples are collected from Spring In Action - Second Edition and uses Spring Framework 2.0.8.
1: Define a regular java [...]

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I found this great step-by-step tutorial on Spring MVC today. It helps you build a very simple web application using Spring MVC. It takes care of all the steps required in order to have a simple web application where all the fundamentals are in place. Perfect for everyone interested in using Spring MVC.
The tutorial is [...]

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Truben linked to a great page for Spring. Check it out!
http://truben.no/journal/spring-tutorialjava-spring-tutorialsspring-25-beginners-tutorial/

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Recently, I’ve been involved with some projects that have been put out on google code. To be more precise, there’s two of them. Since it’s on google code, everyone can check out the source code and play with it. If you want in on one of the projects, please take contact with me in some [...]

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Came across a great page explaining the different Exceptions which can occour in Java.
Example:

IllegalAccessException
You are a burgler that are running a Java program during a burglery. Please finish stealing the computer, leave the premises and try again.

The rest are found her: http://rymden.nu/exceptions.html

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Today I made a simple stack for you. It’s pretty much as basic as it gets. You push elements, you pop elements, you peek at elements, you get the size of the elements.
Here’s the code:
Node.java:

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public class Node<E> {
private E content;
private Node<E> below;
 
public Node(E content) { this.content = content; }
public E getContent() { return content; }
public [...]

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By request, and for fun, I made the game “Joker” (I think that’s what it’s called?), best known for it’s parody “Ekstra Joker Nord” (Extra Joker North) from Team Antonsen:

It’s a simple game where you get five numbers from 1 to 9, and decide if you want to go up or down based on that [...]

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For some crazy reason, I today decided to implement the most simple form for priority queue possible. And since I just got Syntax highlighting on my site, I decided to put it out here.
PS: If you are looking for a PriorityQueue, please use this one, it’s a better solution, based on a heap implementation.
This SimplePriorityQueue [...]

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Today we had trouble with changing the default error messages in JSF, they were pretty confusing. After surfing the net, we found an easy solution:

Make a file called messages.properties and put it somewhere in your source folder (for example in a resource folder).
Go to the faces-context.xml, and add the following inside the faces-context tag:
<application>
<message-bundle>resource.messages</message-bundle>
</application>
Open the [...]

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Java EE:
If your application server crashes, and nothing works: Delete stupid .jar files from domain/lib/ext.

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