Lately I’ve been working on a project that keeps my web bookmarks sync’d across multiple computers and different web browsers. The project is implemented in Java using JBoss 4.2.2, MySQL 5.0 and Spring 2.0. It’s not a very big project right now, only about 40 class files and some small number of configuration files, but the amount of data the application deals with can get fairly large.
Continue reading →

I recently came across a blog post describing how *not* to use the Spring Web MVC form tag library. Spring Web MVC is one of those things that has a high learning curve but it pays off big once you get the hang of it. The form tag library is no exception. The original blog poster seems to want to display a list of things the form user can manipulate and then send the changes back to the app server. There are a few different ways we can do this with Spring Web MVC and some JSTL libraries so let’s take a look at the way I prefer to do it. Continue reading →