Illegal Argument Exception

Some users can run afoul of Portal's user-agent rules. Symptoms include the inability to log in and form submissions just causing page r...

define(["dojo/text!./path/some.txt"], function(textData) { Dojo's AMD loader has some useful contextual loading features...

A short post about setting up a trial WebSphere Portal Express server on the (unsupported) CentOS operating system.

Like many programmers, I like to run virtual machines to isolate development and test environments from everything else I do on my laptop. M...

This post demonstrates a way to use the Dojo 1.7 AMD loader to provide mock /stub/fake/dummy artefacts in place of the defined d...

Along with a few other JavaScript libraries , Dojo is making the transition to the Asynchronous Module Definitio...

A previous post discussed how to inject the FacesContext into managed beans using a broker . This post demonstrates how to build on that a...

Referencing the FacesContext directly in Java classes makes managed beans more difficult to unit test. This post discusses how to mock the ...

One criticism developers have of JavaServer Faces is that it is not possible to add arbitrary attributes to the resultant markup. Problems a...

I've been doing a bit of work recently with JAX-RPC on WebSphere Application Server 6.1. This is hardly cutting edge software (WAS 8 is ...

JAX-WS is built into Java 6. This makes it a low-dependency choice for writing SOAP-based web service code. This post covers the basics of J...

After upgrading the iPads to a new version, we started seeing a logon issue with servers protected by TAM WebSEAL . After successfully authe...

Let's take a JavaScript string: "€100" . This is going to be sent from a browser input box and stored in a web server's da...

When you see a JSP document, you might wonder why it specifies the UTF-8 encoding three or four times. This is a post about what those decla...

Comments are moderated and will not appear until I approve them. I don't live on the blog, so it may take me some time to see and re...

The method System.console() can return null if there is no console device present. This comes as a surprise to people when they run their ...

Content is not allowed in prolog is an error generally emitted by the Java XML parsers when data is encountered before the <?xml... dec...

This is the fourth post about my experiments with a fluent I/O API. This post covers conclusions and limitations of the implementation. You ...

This is the third post about my experiments with a fluent I/O API. This post covers how the API enhances exception handling.

This is the second post about my experiments with a fluent I/O API. This post covers how to extend the API.