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Bindul

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Breaking up Insight

I have been thinking about it for a while, and finally decided to go about doing it. Insight is an open source log analysis tool that was started by Regu. I started contributing to it and before I realized, I was maintaining the project. On its own Insight works fine as it stands today. But … Continue reading

Insight goes Open Source

Insight is a tool for viewing and analyzing log files. It was initially designed to analyze log4j generated log files. It started as an enhancement over chainsaw. However, there were a lot of enhancements that were added on to Insight since then, so much so that in its current form Insight has very little ties … Continue reading

Struts Message Sources from Non-Classpath Locations

For a lot of us using Struts1.x internationalization is as simple as having resource bundles in the classpath, and the simple struts-config.xml configuration: However, this approach has a simple limitation, that the resource bundles have to be in the classpath of the application. However, in one of the projects at work, one of the design … Continue reading

Multipart request handling with Struts and Spring

Struts 1.x has inbuilt mechanisms to handle multi part posts (file uploads). By default it uses Apache Commons Fileupload. In the application I was working on we used Struts as the MVC framework, but Spring to do pretty much everything else. Springs, Struts integration module was extensively used, and we were using Spring’s SpringBindingActionForm for … Continue reading

Death of a good library

Well, it has been a while since I posted anything. Guess I have been extremely busy? Anyways, I am back! This post however is not to talk about how I am doing, but rather to talk about a couple of libraries on Jakarta Commons – commons-email and commons-cli. I have used both these libraries on … Continue reading

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