When building database ORM code, I prefer to use ebean, and I prefer to use DAO‘s. Since DAO’s are simple to make generic, I have a Generic DAO I use for all projects. I’ve finally decided to open-source my DAO code, and you can find it here https://github.com/teverett/ebean-dao.
A complete list of my ANTLR grammars HTML Redcode gff3 6502 Assembler fasta BASIC Creole Logo brainfuck
I’ve always had a fascination with compilers. As a Java geek, I’m also quite interested in the JVM. In order to learn a little more about both, and as a way to contribute to the open source world, I decided to implement a compiler for BASIC. So, jvmBasic consumes BASIC code and emits .class…
When writing custom servlets, it can be quite useful to unit test them. In my case, I used a combination of testng and mockito. The basic idea is simple; mock a HttpServletRequest, and a HttpServletResponse and pass them to the custom servlet. There is a bit more too it, so here’s an example. final HttpServletRequest…
I’ve recently becoming interested in porting legacy PHP sites to JSPs. It seemed to me that one of the hardest parts of this problem was parsing the PHP code. Once a parse tree was created, the next step would be to emit equivalent JSP code. I went looking for an ANTL4 grammar for PHP,…
I recently had a reason to need a TELNET server and couldn’t find a Java library that worked for me. After a weekend of hacking, I now have kTelnet, an Open-source, BSD-licensed, TELNET server.
I recently found myself in a situation where mission-critical software was suffering from performance problems due to relying on a remote API which was both slow (as slow as 11sec / transaction), and unreliable. In this case, it turned out that there were multiple applications accessing this API, and every individual application was affected….