John Abong

Greg, I'll at least email you my last refactor just to see where I stand. Can I just dig your email out of the who's who page? Thanks.

Thanks for the update, Margaret. Congrats on getting so far! I've got a lot on my plate right now so I'm not 100% sure I want to do this. I'm sure I have a ton of catching up to do. But, only one module between us and that third moose head is very tempting. Good luck.

I'm thinking about going for that third moosehead. My last submission was 12/08; Servlets-4b (Secure Videos). That's when Paul took over nitpicking duties for Marilyn. We kinda dropped the ball, there. I'd like to re-submit that refactor to see where I was. Who do we submit to, now?

Thanks

Ahh, thanks, Ulf!

Hey, thanks guys. I was up to Servlets-4b. I believe it is the "second".

John

Hi Nitpickers! It's been a while since I last checked in. Hope you are all well and still have your eye-sight. I finished the java project for work that spawned my membership here. It runs like a charm (if I do say so myself). I know, as a whole, it would fail nitpicking miserably, but it's a one-time proprietary program. I like to check the moose head trophy section now and then and noticed today that I'm only showing one moose head. I actually EARNED two. Can somebody find it and hang it back up for me? Thank you for that AND for getting me through those very tough years.

John Abong

I'm still around.

I still want to be active. Just working on a huge project for now.

I'm working on Servlets-4b while awaiting nitpick on Servlets-4a. I want to refactor the code from Servlets-4a in small steps so I'm dancing around that working code so I don't break it. My thinking is that I can add logic around that code to effectively secure it without getting into an endless loop. It's not working.

I'm having a real tough time figuring out where to place the decision logic inside the servlet. I'm trying to think polymorphically and logically at the same time and getting all jammed up!

Knowing that the servlet demands an action, keeps pointing me to mess with my inner classes. I really don't want to do that, do I? :roll:

AS YOU WERE...

Ant Update

While I did have a punctuation issue that prevented a successfull build, the REAL issue turned out to be a flawed binary file. Re-downloading ant solved it. Case closed!

~ Epilogue

I believe I have figured it out (I'll verify when i get home) and staying true to Cattle Drive form I'll try only to lead you to water...solution = WATCH YOUR PUNCTUATION!

I did find ant -diagnostics to be VERY helpful.

I re-checked the PATH and found two extra semi-colons at the beginning of the statement. Now the the project compiles and builds successfully but does not distribute to /orion/applications folder. Stay tuned...

I decided to work over-time on the cattle drive. I'm going through each assignment at home now as well as at work. I'm all the way through to ant. Ant can't find build.properties in the user.home; build fails at deploy.

I've re-installed ant, triple-checked PATH/CLASSPATH, etc. What am I missing?

Work pc = Windows XP Pro on domain
Home pc = Windows XP Pro on workgroup

Thanks, Carol. I know the drill by now.

1. Try things for a week or two,
2. send an S.O.S. to the Cattle Drive forum,
3. get a second wind and see the answers that were there the whole time.

Ready for stage 3...

I loaded the controller/servlet with a dummy string-value to verify the action of the controller/servlet forwarding the model/data to the viewer/jsp.

URL is...
/videos/servlet/VideoServlet
As stated in 4a...

...You can use these files without modification for this project.

I'm finding that changing the order of addActionHandler()statements produces different results (as expected), but I'm not getting the desired results based on the URL. The server keeps serving the same page.