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Reasons NOT to use JSF [closed]
I am new to StackExchange, but I figured you would be able to help me.
We're crating a new Java Enterprise application, replacing an legacy JSP solution. Due to many many changes, the UI and parts of ...
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Explain Model View Controller
My experience with developing dynamic websites is limited mostly to Java servlets. I've used Tomcat to develop various Java servlets, and I wouldn't hesitate to say that I'm reasonably proficient ...
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Do I have to learn html and javascript to create web applications?
I am an experienced Java programmer, and I want to create a complex web application requiring dynamic pages, drawings, etc (take SO as an example). Do I have to learn javascript/html in order to ...
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How do CDNs protect failover sites from DDoS attacks?
I'm in the design process for a Java web app that I will probably end up deploying to Google App Engine (GAE). The nice thing about GAE is that I really don't have to worry about fortifying my app ...
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Is JSF really ready to deliver high performance web applications?
I have heard a lot of good about JSF but as far as I know people also had lots of serious complains with this technology in the past, not aware of how much the situation has improved. We are ...
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How to learn Java web application development?
I’m planning on making a Java web application using Amazon Web Services Elastic Beanstalk. AWS Elastic Beanstalk basically provides PaaS on top of AWS’s cloud computing resources.
The problem I’m ...
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Is there a good tutorial on the Java web ecosystem?
Is there a good online overview of or tutorial on how the Java web ecosystem works? I have Thinking in Java, but it's mostly just the language itself (which I understand well enough to get by). When ...
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Attachment handling for web application with Jackrabbit
I need to manage attachments on my Spring web application and I thought to use an open source repository. My app it's a job approval system using J2EE / SPRING 3 Framework and postgress DB to allow ...
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Heavy use of static methods in a Java EE web application?
Generally I am asking if this is a norm. The application architecture includes spring and the zk framework. I personally can't help but think this introduces a number of problems. I mean...this is a ...
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Need to make a stock inventory application
I need to make an application for my dad to keep track of stock trading inventory. He trades shares for himself and for his clients and would like to keep the records, things like buy/sell price of ...
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Implementing cache system in Java Web Application [closed]
I worked with JPA (Eclipselink implementation) and Hibernate. As I understand these two have great caching systems.
I am interested in caching in a Web application and in order to better understand ...
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Testing web applications written in java
How do you test the web applications (both server side and client side code)? The testing method has to work irrespective of the framework used (struts, spring web mvc) etc.
I am using Java for the ...
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Is it typical for a provider of a web services to also provide client libraries?
My company is building a corporate Java web-app and we are leaning towards using GWT-RPC as the client-server protocol for performance reasons. However, in the future, we will need to provide an API ...
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Static methods on a web context
What happens when concurrent requests call the same static Java method running on an application server?
Say that a method run takes 2 seconds and receives 100 calls in a given second. The method ...
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Enterprise scalable vs internet scalable, what is the meaning & differences?
While reading about Java EE applications, somewhere I have seen people saying they're enterprise scalable, I am confused as to what that really mean?
Are Java web applications mainly written & ...
