Tag Archives: web

Where Does Wicket Store It’s DiskPageStore Files?

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Richard Nichols

Wicket stores everything other than the current Page for a given user’s session (by default) in a second-level disk-based session cache. I’d never looked much into how it worked, until I wanted to know where these files were located. The … Continue reading →

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5 Minute Guide to Clustering – Java Web Apps in Tomcat

Posted on August 21, 2010 by Richard Nichols

I’ve been taking a break from posting for the last couple of weeks. I was starting to get a bit run down, and feel like burn out was about to set in. The kind of blog posts I do take … Continue reading →

Posted in Java, Software Engineering | Tagged apache, cluster, guides, Java, open-source, performance, web | 7 Comments

ResourceTransformFilter – DataUris, LessCSS, Javascript and CSS Compression Made Easy!

Posted on July 27, 2010 by Richard Nichols

ResourceTransformFilter is a swiss-army-knife for HTML/CSS/Javascript transformation in Java web applications. It’s a new addition to the visural-common Apache 2.0 licensed project. Apply this filter in your Java webapp to get – Automatic CSS DataURI image inlining for supported browsers Automatic … Continue reading →

Posted in Design, Java, Software Engineering | Tagged automation, css, Java, javascript, open-source, tips, visural-common, web | 7 Comments

LessCSS available in Java and Wicket – less.js

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Richard Nichols

For the uninitiated, LessCSS is a powerful extension of CSS, that adds variables, mixins, operations and nested rules. What this means is the ability to remove the repetition and redundancy which almost always pops up in CSS for complex web … Continue reading →

Posted in Java, Software Engineering, Wicket | Tagged css, Java, ui, visural-wicket, web, wicket | 2 Comments