Introduction Have you been at your wit’s end trying to work out why your action just won’t fire? Have you exhausted BalusC’s list of potential reasons? Does it happen to be just the last couple of buttons that don’t work,…
Introduction Have you been at your wit’s end trying to work out why your action just won’t fire? Have you exhausted BalusC’s list of potential reasons? Does it happen to be just the last couple of buttons that don’t work,…
Introduction There are a number of different reasons why you would want to disable input for sections of a page. Most obviously is the case where information should be readonly, pending certain conditions – perhaps access roles, perhaps something as…
Widget for var ‘Widget for var ‘dlg’ not available! The Tears Does that fuel you with a deep, burning rage? Widgets not being available are insanely frustrating, especially because deep down you know it’s going to be because of a…
Pulling a value off of a component – sounds easy enough? Well, it is, but there’s a little gotcha that BalusC was kind enough to explain for me. The UIComponent provides a .getAttributes() that returns, as expected, a map containing the…
The Problem I’ve recently been working with some PrimeFaces components. In general they’ve been fairly awesome to use, but either I’ve been looking for documentation in all the wrong places or they aren’t documented very well. The PrimeFaces commandButton is, by…
Introduction I’ve recently had to convert a currently in-use production system running in jBPM 5.4 to jBPM 6. The jBPM 6 team did make an attempt to make the upgrade process fairly easy by ensuring that they only added columns…
Introduction We’re working on an Android application that will be largely community based, so there’s a lot of information going back and forwards. Our target phones are extremely low-tech though – Android 2.3 and Edge are the platform we’re aiming…
Introduction An ID number is a basic requirement for various online applications. There are two ways we can take advantage of ID numbers – we can verify them using their check digit to ensure that the user entered their ID…
Background There are some annotations which exist not to directly offer functionality but as a helper for the developer and for the developers which follow. There are some annotations which should exist, but have yet to reach the public eye.…
Strange Days Indeed We ran into a strange problem that had crept by us undetected due to the overlapping effects of two only partially-connected issues. The requirements were fairly basic – display a list of items, along with a starting…