Archive for July, 2005

Finding Deprecated Methods

Is there really no way to find if a method is deprecated using 1.4? It looks like you can determine it via annotations in 1.5, but this code I’m using was compiled using 1.4 so that’s not an option. Maybe I’ll just write a doclet…

Radio Button Select Lists

I recently changed some pages from radio buttons to select lists for space reasons. The choice between which to use can be tricky sometimes. This guy has a nice solution. I may have to write a tag lib for that one.

Tool Managed Development

One of the various complaints about JSF is that it’s tool centric. Many would prefer a framework that didn’t “need” tools to work with. Regardless of the merits of that particular complaint, I’ve been thinking about the larger question of “is using tools a bad thing?” Many people prefer to work with [...]

I knew it!

Everyone has blogged about this but I didn’t really pay attention. Finally I looked at the moon and learned something we’ve always suspected. The moon is made of cheese! Zoom in close for the proof.

Test Framework Article Uploaded

I’ve uploaded the PDF version of my testing article as well as a paginated HTML version for those who are interested. See the links on the home page.