Category Archives: Java

Demystifying HttpServletRequest properties…

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Richard Nichols

I always find myself writing little test cases to figure out which methods to call on HttpServletRequest to get path / parameter information when doing low level Servlet and Filter programming. The method naming and Javadoc is pretty poor for … Continue reading →

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Netbeans 7 + Git plugin on Windows Issues?

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Richard Nichols

I just started checking out Netbeans 7 which has a nice Git plugin available now in the plugin manager. I was horrified though when I opened a project to find every single source file was being shown as “modified” by Netbeans, although … Continue reading →

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Use Hudson (now Jenkins) to restart a Windows service…

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Richard Nichols

Here’s a quick tip – you can easily make Hudson restart a windows service, by using its “Windows Batch Command” build step in combination with the command line windows “net” command. Here’s an example of how we can get Hudson … Continue reading →

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Face Detection in Java – Haar Cascade with JJIL (how-to)

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Richard Nichols

A requirement came up on a recent project to automatically crop displayed profile images of people to just the “face” area for a thumbnail. This seems like a job for a face detection algorithm. Searching for appropriate open-source Java implementations … Continue reading →

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