Creating a remote paging listview isn’t particularly difficult but getting to the point of knowing how all the pieces fit together can be tricky first time round. This post describes how I created a very simple remote paging listview that retrieves each page of data from an Oracle database table. As well as describing the [...]
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Meteor WebSMS
10Oct07As a Java5/JUnit4/Maven2 learning exercise I’ve written a simple little SMS command line utility called Meteor WebSMS. It allows you to bypass Meteor’s website and send the free web SMS messages they offer from your command line (you have to be a Meteor customer of course).
The API is completely separate from the the command line [...]
Comparing Maven to Ant
29Aug07Maven is one of them tools that I always felt I should be using but for some reason I could never quite get into it. over the years I’ve made several attempts at reading their getting started guide but for some reason I was never really able to grasp what it was that made it [...]
JPasswordField is a Java SWING control used to manage password fields. Rather than use a normal JTextField it masks the characters typed by the user with some other character (default is an ‘*’).
Very often it’s useful to see the actual text in this field. One way to do this is to give the user the [...]
This post is really a record for both myself and anyone else who ever comes across the same problem.
The Problem: Given two entities with a many-to-many association between them, the join table isn’t being populated when an association is made.
The Problem Set: Two persistent entities, “Group” and “ActivityType” with a many-to-many association between them. A [...]


