Among plenty of improvements, Java 8 came with a completely new API for dates, times, instants, and durations (java.time package). However, there are thousands of projects that use the legacy java.util.Date for date and time presentation purpose. As Oracle did not provide any direct way of converting …
In many situations you may need to use platform-dependent newline character in Java. There are several ways you can get that value, depending on the Java version you are using. System properties Java system properties always includes line.separator property which contains platform-dependent line separator (\n on UNIX and \r …
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) and JSONP ("JSON with padding") formats seems to be very similar and therefor it might be very confusing which MIME type they should be using. Even though the formats seems to be very similar, there are some subtle differences between them. So whenever in …
In this post, I would like to share a way of applying a security scheme to a JIRA project using SQL. In many cases you will not have to do that as JIRA administration console works perfectly fine in that respect. However, in my case, I needed to apply a …
In this post, I would like to share several useful things about Spring Expression Language which can help you with Spring framework configuration. Spring XML wiring style is sufficient in most cases. Sometimes, however, you need to perform wiring that is much more difficult or sometimes even impossible without writing …
Recently I installed Maven 3.2.1 on Mac OS X and discovered that Maven did not use my default Java version (set to 1.7). Instead it was using Java version 1.6. The java -version command was giving following output: java version "1.7.0_51" …
In this post, I am sharing how to use a filter in a controller in AngularJS. Very easy way of injecting a filter is to inject dependency with the name composed of the filter name and the Filter suffix: <filterName>Filter. E.g. the dependency customFilter injects custom …