Bill Schneider, Software Architect

The last time I re-read  The Fountainhead, I felt like many of the ideas in the book could be useful for software developers.  It seemed lik...

You can use jQuery global AJAX events with PrimeFaces to refactor behaviors that appear on multiple components.  A good example is if you ha...

All of Primefaces' JSF components use the jQuery AJAX engine, which means you can catch global AJAX events with $(document).ajaxStart an...

Got an error from IE9 complaining about "invalid character". Turned out this was because the JSON response string had control cha...

If you have a class that implements Serializable, superclass fields do NOT get serialized unless the parent class also explicitly implements...

If you have WebSphere application server in your environment, it is in fact possible to decode the "LtpaToken" cookie in code for ...

I found a performance issue with JSF on Glassfish 3.1.1 (and prior) in an unexpected place: a seemingly innocuous line of code like <h:...

When Glassfish catches a ServletException, it calls getRootCause recursively on each successive unwrapped, nested exception by reflection . ...

Connecting MicroStrategy 8.x Web SDK to a MicroStrategy 9.x Intelligence Server (iServer) doesn't work.  That in itself isn't a sur...

Sleep mode was grayed out on new Dell laptop (Latitude E6420) on Windows 7. The fix was to disable the legacy VGA driver, which came up wi...

I was getting mysterious, intermittent proxy errors using Apache mod_proxy to talk to an older version of Glassfish (2.x). It turned out th...

I've had success using JSF 2.0 with JPA on Glassfish 3.0.1, without using Spring or EJB for managing middle-tier services or DAOs. (I a...

Another unhelpful WebSphere error, this time with an assist from Oracle. This happened to me when I configured my JDBC data source with t...

Got this error when trying to upgrade from WebSphere Portal 6.0 to 7.0. com.ibm.portal.puma.SchemaViolationException: EJPSG0053E: Puma req...

Chrome and Firefox both return an offset from 1900 for date.getYear() instead of a four-digit year (pre-Y2K, a two-digit year). So new Date...

I just noticed that some browsers, like IE9 and Chrome, don't preserve insertion order of keys when iterating with a for-in loop ["...

I recently learned about commons-logging's classloader behavior the hard way when moving applications that use log4j from Tomcat to WebL...

I've begun to question the wisdom of standards for websites that require support for older browsers like Netscape 4. Backwards compatibi...

I must have bad luck with my home wireless network. I had a D-Link DI-514 wireless router, which worked great until I got a new IBM Thinkp...

displaytag is an easy-to-use JSP tag library for printing out HTML data tables with sorting and paging. But, there's a catch. In an ente...