Tag Archives: web

Adding a Dynamic Watermark to an Image – Java Web Application

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Richard Nichols

I recently had to come up with a way to add a dynamic watermark to images served in a Java web application. This was able to be done pretty easily in a Java Servlet Filter using the regular AWT toolkit. … Continue reading →

Posted in Java, Software Engineering | Tagged images, Java, web | 2 Comments

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 →

Posted in Java, Software Engineering, Wicket | Tagged Java, web, wicket | Leave a comment

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 | 32 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 | 13 Comments