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Struts 2 form tag action attribute function

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:19:00 GMT

Struts 2 is a complex framework that is hampered by poor documentation and books that don't provide enough details. Simple tasks can be accomplished many ways but it is not always obvious what they are. Even something as basic as creating a form tag to invoke an action can cause quite a bit of confusion.

MySQL problem with Apache connection pools

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:50:22 GMT

The Apache commons-dbcp-1.2.2.jar doesn't work and play well with MySQL. The symptom is an error when a call is made to MySQL after the connection has timed out. This happens with Spring SQL template as well as many ORM tools such as Hibernate.

Using Blogger missing files host to maintain traffic after conversion

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:40:00 GMT

I recently had to help out with a blog that was migrated to Blogger. Afterward, the search engine traffic dried up because the URLs all changed. Combining a 301 permanent move response with a missing files host solved the problem.