Eclipse Platform

The Web Tools Project (WTP) by the Eclipse Foundation is a set of open source tools that substantially reduce the time required for the development of Web applications, EJBs, and Web services. The WTP's current version is 0.7.1 and version 1.0 is coming later this year. The framework provides wizards and tools to create EJBs, Web components such as servlets and JSPs, and Web services using the Axis engine. It also provides source editors for HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JSP, SQL, XML, DTD, XSD, and WSDL; graphical editors for XSD, WSDL, J2EE project builders, models, and a J2EE navigator; a Web service wizard, explorer, and WS-I Test Tools; and database access, query tools, and models. In this article I'll show you how to develop and deploy a JSP Web application with WTP in less than an hour. I'll also cover the creation and deployment of a basic servlet and editing JSP ... (more)

Configuring Eclipse for Remote Debugging a WebLogic Java Application

A J2EE application deployed in the WebLogic server may be debugged in the Eclipse IDE with the remote debugger provided by Eclipse. Without a debugger the error message has to be obtained from the application server error log to debug the application. With the remote debugger provided by Eclipse, exception breakpoints may be added to the application file to debug. When an application is run in WebLogic and the application generates an error, the application gets suspended and the Eclipse IDE Debug perspective displays the error. In this tutorial we will debug a WebLogic Applicat... (more)

Florida Leads the Way in Providing Options for Low-Income Parents, New School Choice Yearbook Reveals

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More Florida students are participating in publicly funded private school choice programs than any other state in the country, according to the School Choice Yearbook 2011-12—the annual award-winning publication offering the most comprehensive data on the nation's 27 private school choice programs—released yesterday by the Alliance for School Choice. The Sunshine State continues to set the pace for school choice enrollment nationwide, becoming the first state in history to eclipse 60,000 participants. The majority of those s... (more)

How Many Frameworks Does It Take to Retrieve Orders?

I don’t like most of the Flex MVC frameworks because they force me to write more code. I do like frameworks and tools that let me write less code. But there is no free lunch and, at some point,  even productive frameworks, tools, and libraries reach critical mass and the finger pointing game begins. Today, I’ve been working on an application that was supposed to display a list of orders form a relational DBMS. Not a rocket science.  But let’s go over the languages, libraries, tools, and frameworks I had to use for this. First, I wrote a 20-lines SQL Union statement and tested it in... (more)

Thank You, Java Annotation!

This was an interesting bug… I was working on a Web application, where Adobe Flex client was sending an instance of an ActionScript WrapperObject to the Java server, which was supposed to invoke some JBDC code to run an SQL Insert statement saving the data from the Java version of WrapperObject in the database. I wrote all the pieces of Flex, Java, and SQL and started Tomcat in Eclipse IDE.   The Web browser displayed my window, I filled out the form populating the ActionScript WrapperObject and pressed the button Save. Nothing happened. No errors and no data inserted in the data... (more)