Tag Archives: java

How to map a Servlet to only the front page / root path of your webapplication

This post is about Java Web Servlets and will hopefully save you some hours of debugging. Prelude Rant I was naive enough to think that the reasonable URL pattern “/” would match only the root path of the application. Guess … Read more

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Iron Man, software development and entrepreneurship

Just finished watching Iron Man. It’s a fun movie, especially the Tony Stark character (the guy wearing the Iron Man suit). He’s somewhat narcissistic and arrogant but he has a good heart underneath that armor, well sort of, at least … Read more

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Super-simple way in Java with Netbeans to build all dependant libraries and subprojects with distribution

I think I finally figured out a simple and elegant way to build dependant libraries directly with the distribution and kiss that NoClassDefFound error goodbye. I also have a similar solution for Java Web Application projects. What you need is: … Read more

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Compiling Mustache.java jar on Windows

I’m a Java rookie. I did a basic Java course in college back in the day (even got an A!) but I’m totally clueless now. I finally figured out how to compile Mustacha.java into a working jar (running jar out-of-the-box … Read more

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