Curb the Belly of the Beast: Drag & Drop ServerRequest-Hell And Icefaces

Icefaces supports drag-and-drop functinality regarding its component-library. For sure its easily to implement with much more issues afterwards. Some things brought me almost to cry. If you have a droplistener on your dropArea, your calling event does probably  not bearing your dragged value.

#{workflowTask.name}

Drop Target 1

As you can see, the dropping zone posseses […]

(Internet-driven)HTML to PDF with Java

Ah most converters seems to make no sense for me as they producing nothing useable or are overloaded.
I just wanna try to convert a HTML Page into a PDF. Searching through internet bored me down as no concret easy solution(for free) exist. Or im blind, so i can not see this
First try to […]

Be or not to be: Versionmare on MySQL?

What the fuck! Im sorry but this gettin one big hole, i hope…
If you have currently MySQL as Database running and the driver version 5.0.x on start, i expect you getting some errors when you using BinaryObjects for exchange between different layers. When you using this driver-version 3, you should getting errors if you run […]

Adorable use of XStream library for java object serialization

Today at work, Thomas has shown me a very genius tool for handling serialization of java objects to store as xml. As long as i think, i thought JAXB or similar libraries are the state of the art libraries. However XStream is, when the use is pending on pure xml serialization, the best choice, i […]