Bill Schneider, Software Architect

I was converting a small Java class to C#, and found a lot to like about it as a language.  For even a simple class - just collection and st...

The IE z-index bug is old news by now, but since I struggled so much to understand it as a relative newbie to CSS, I wanted to preserve an e...

Bug renders Eclipse debugger useless if class has/uses generics:   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=344856 Also, Eclipse Gl...

I found this post useful for understanding problems with handling "poison messages" in message-driven beans: http://weblogs.java...

I've come to the conclusion that you should avoid defining equals and hashCode on JPA @Entity objects unless you have a really good reas...

Unit test coverage is not a panacea.  You can reach 100% unit test coverage without a single assertion about outputs or business logic, in w...

I just learned the hard way that onstart and onclick are not the same thing. In particular, a "return ..." has very different se...

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...