Humboldt Solutions Ltd

The mod_proxy_ajp module for Apache has many advantages over mod_jk for connecting a Tomcat server to an Apache front. For me, the crucial advantage was the ProxyPassReverseCookiePath directive, which allows me to map the session cookies of a Tomcat web application (other than the root application) into the root of a virtual host. Unfortunately, many [...]

I recently converted a large project to build with Maven. The project contained both C++ and Java code, and produced a web application, a standalone server application, plus a number of small command line tools. The project used a large number of open-source Java libraries, and Maven tamed these easily. The native C++ [...]

I’ve recently been introducing the Spring Framework into an existing Java application, using it to speed up adding new features, while making the existing JDBC code more maintainable. One tricky area has been time handling: the application uses an older SQL Server version, so cannot take advantage of the implementation of timestamp with time zone [...]