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Venice - Florence - Day 3
Every once in a while It happens to us that we find something (a place, a store, a book) that we know we should check out right away because it looks ( Read more... ) -
Venice - Day 2
On the second day, armed with the knowledge that the key to a successful day is hitting the streets
early, we started the day by enjoying sleepy Venice.
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Venice - Day 1
Ah, Venice!
I had no idea that jet-lag can be such a great advantage here. We woke up at 5 to the sounds of the fish-market deliveries under our
windows
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Installing rsync on Vmware ESX 3 with minimum impact
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Securing a two-tier application over the Internet
In this post I want to address security issues of deploying a two-tier application (i.e. a fat-client application which directly communicates with the database server) to users located outside of the corporate LAN or secure WAN. Potential uses of this scenario are in making an application available to company's customers or electronic partners. ( Read more... ) -
Class templates in Java
Following is a suggested workqround for creating Java class templates. EnumKey class is a template for creating enumeration Keys with different structure.
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Status Update
I regret to admit, that almost a month went by without any significant contribution to the development effort. There were objective and subjective reasons for the freeze. Following is the state of the development -
How to allow users to control default parameters in the framework
- Configuration files placed in the classpath before framework configuration files will get the precedence
- If user wants to override the default value supplied by the framework all she has to do is to place a config file with her values into the classpath. NB. Need to see how the classloader provides the files. May need to implement something custom ( Read more... )
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Configuring framework elements
The following elements of the framework require configuration:- MD
- UI descriptor
- Persistence descriptor
- Formatter
- FieldInfo
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Configuration of Formatters
Formatter is one of the key META-data components which needs to be configured in the system. I added the init(IParameterProvider pp) and save(IParameterProvider pp) methods to the IFormatter interface. All existing formatters are updated to read parameters from the configuration file during formatter instantiation. Just as a reminder, formatters ( Read more... )