Problem StackOverflowExceptions in Java and in other programming languages can be notoriously difficult to debug. The most troublesome attribute of these exceptions is that they occur in no specific place in the application. In specific, the location (class+line number) in which the exception is thrown does only point indirectly
Problem When wrapping an existing DOM element with a GWT widget (e.g. Button.wrap(…), HTML.wrap(…), etc), the GWT module will not load and report the exception like the following: java.lang.AssertionError: A widget that has an existing parent widget may not be added to the detach list
Problem While the GWT application works fine in development mode, it reports a mysterious NumberFormatException exception in production mode upon deserialization of an RPC on the server side. java.lang.NumberFormatException: Expected type 'int' but received an out-of-range value: -43400113595222000 at [..]ServerSerializationStreamReader.getNumberFormatException(ServerSerializationStreamReader.java:839) Analysis Apparently
Since some time now, Amazon offers a free (for 1 year) Micro Instance in their cloud for new sign ups. Micro instances are widely discussed as easy and relatively cheap way to run a cloud-based application (e.g. website/blog). Below a collection of a number of links regarding Amazon&
GWT RPC is a technology with both great promises as well as many practical pitfalls. On the one hand, GWT RPC magically handles the transport of objects from a Java server to a JavaScript based client, without any need to create and maintain legacy data formats (e.g. in JSON)
The world is rife for a new dominant programming language! Actually, has been rife for a couple of years, which, however, does not stop Java and C++ from dominating the screens of many unfortunate developers. Apart from the inarguably impressive features offered by 'new' languages, such as Scala,
One common theme in discussions of persistence is to be critical of the traditional SQL databases, which have been successfully used in business applications for decades. As alternative to these SQL databases, often so called NoSQL solutions are advocated. NoSQL, essentially, dramatically simplifies the kind of data, which can be
Exceptions are a necessary evil of most software development endeavours. As much as we would like to design applications, which are equivalent to mathematical functions 'give me one input and always I will trustfully return you the same output', the real world IOExceptions, OutOfMemoryExceptions, DivideByZeroExceptions and their various
Formatting JavaDoc using plain HTML can be a troublesome and time-intensive experience. Today I installed the JDocEditor plugin for eclipse, which allows editing JavaDoc in eclipse using a small rich text editor. Here, a quick evaluation, a few screenshots and a little getting started guide. Evaluation Good: * Free * Helps to
The question of the right programming language is one that has always spurned much controversy. Likewise, the idea that one day we could develop software by simply 'drawing' expressive models has as many advocators as opponents. The idea of domain specific languages could be one which helps us
The other day I came across another interesting static source code analysis plugin for eclipse: JDepend. JDepend calculates a number of quality metrics for Java packages (therewith it has a slightly different unit of analysis to other tools, which focus on methods, classes or projects). I found that Andrey Loskutov
In order to configure a simple Apache Web Server, I found myself many a time connecting to a UNIX system using putty, fiddling around with various configuration files using pico or vim. I don't want to count the times I deleted some configuration I later missed dearly or
