When developing web applications it has always been a challenge how to plug in customer specific extensions and integrations without invading the inner guts of the web application too much. This not only concerns the source code, it is quite easy to keep customer specific sources out of the application’s trunk, the main problems usually arise when thinking about deployment strategies

Java, JPF, Spring

ResourceBundles werden in verschiedenen Programmiersprachen (Java, Adobe ActionScript,…) benutzt, um Anwendungen zu internationalisieren. Man erstellt für jede Sprache, in der die Anwendung später übersetzt werden soll eine Datei, in der dann die übersetzten Zeichenketten in der jeweiligen Sprache eingetragen sind. Dieser Blogeintrag zeigt, wie man ResourceBundles mit ANT automatisch Überprüfen kann.

Actionscript, Ant, Java

Yesterday I’ve installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit on my machine and came across some problems when trying to run Eclipse 3.5 on the 64 bit JVM.

Eclipse, Java, Windows 7

Be careful when using the @Transactional annotation in your Spring-driven annotations! Checked exceptions do not cause a rollback by default.

Java, Spring

EJB annotations and Hibernate are a good thing, but in connection with Hibernate’s Lazy Loading mechanism there are a few points to take care of.

Hibernate, Java, JPA