For a project at the University we had the task to create Annotations that would remove the concurrency boilerplate Code from Java. The main Idea of the Annotation is to mark some kind of Collection-processing method with @Parallel, so that the method-body will be executed by several Threads, which after completion will be joined and […]

Just found out that, if you run several Java Versions under Windows, Windows has this oddity to put the Java executables under \windows\system32, whenever you install a newer version of java. So if you have to build java code on the console with an older version, sometimes its not enough to set the %JAVA_HOME% environment […]

Since ICEFaces is almost like ZK a container-agnostic Framework, I wanted to create an additional Archetype for creating Web-Apps with ICEFaces. This could have been any other JSF component framework, but ICEFaces happens to have their own Portlet-Bridge, which comes in handy when deploying to a portal. I tried RichFaces before, but RichFaces seems to […]

I want to describe the basic steps to create a hybrid Web-Application, thats runnable in a normale Application Server, like Tomcat, and is also deployble to a Portlet Server like Liferay. There are lots of other well documented sources that describe the basic steps on each of those Web-Apps independently, so i dont want to […]