Category: Kev’s Blog

There’s quite a lot of forum chatter going on about this post for a Coldfusion developer and it seems to have stirred up a real hornets nest.

I wonder what sort of individual this advert really attracted, because in all honesty this sounds like possibly the worst company to work for in the world…

“The flogging will continue until the moral improves…”

Bruce Eckel has some interesting observations in his blog this week about how lesser and more experienced developers work within a development team, and comments on an anti-pattern, the ‘Faux Chief Architect’

Unlike Struts, JSF allows you to handle events driven from the user’s interaction with your web front-end. OnJava.com have an article which is a chapter from their book on JSF explaining how this is done.

There is a SourceForge project called HibTags tha allows you to interact with Hibernate directly from your JSP pages.

Is this a good idea? Probably not, its use hardly follows any commonly accepted design guidelines for layering your architecture into separate layers each with its own concern (presentation, business, data access etc, at the very least).

This is probably in the same camp as the SQL JSTL tags, which are maybe useful for prototyping, but shouldn’t go far beyond that.