Resources for Understanding Object-Oriented JavaScript

Following are some good articles/tutorial on OO JavaScript:

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Creating a MD5 Hash in Java From Either a String or the Byte Value of a Long

Following is a quick example of how to generate an MD5 Hash (SHA-256, SHA-512 or any other supported hash algorithm) of either a String or the byte value of a long.  You should be able to adapt for your particular application:

package com.ryanchapin.util;

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;

public class HashGenerator {

    public static String createHash(long input, String hashAlgorithm) {
        // Generate a byte array from the long
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Adding MultipartConfig Configuration to web.xml in JBoss 6.x for a Servlet 3.0 File Upload Servlet

If you do not want to hard-code your file upload servlet with the @MultipartConfig annotation but would rather add it to your <servlet> configuration element in web.xml, following is the syntax (add this as a child element of <servlet>):

<multipart-config>
      <location>/tmp</location>
      <max-file-size>20848820</max-file-size>
      <max-request-size>418018841</max-request-size>
      <file-size-threshold>1048576</file-size-threshold>
</multipart-config>
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Invocation of request.getParts() in a Servlet 3.0 doPost Method Will Not Throw IllegalStateException

This one requires a bit of explaination.

When writing a Servlet that will enable users to upload files from a form you need to be able to limit both the size of the file(s) and the entire multipart/form-data request.  The Servlet 3.0 spec now includes a @MultipartConfig annotation (which can also be specified in web.xml, see other post in this blog).

Based on the Servlet 3.0 spec here is what is supposed to happen.

  1. The user submits a multi-part
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Touching a File in Java

The following is a tutorial on how to create a empty file on the filesystem:

// Destination directory
File destinationDir = new File(“/some/path”);

// The ‘touched’ file
File doneFile = new File(destinationDir, “some_file_name”);

// The JVM will only ‘touch’ the file if you instantiate a
// FileOutputStream instance for the file in question.
// You don’t actually write any data to the file through
// the FileOutputStream.  Just instantiate it and close it.
FileOutputStream doneFOS = null;
try {
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Fixing "Software installation has been disabled by your system administrator" Notice When Attempting to Install An Addon for Firefox

When I attempted to install the Web Developer Add-on in Firefox I was presented with the error in the title of this post.

After some searching it seems that the least intrusive way to go about fixing it is to update the Firefox configuration for your user profile.

If you are on WinXP look in C:\Documents and Settings\UID\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\fxlme5ka.default.  On my install the following preference was in prefs.js

Change:

user_pref(“xpinstall.enabled”, false);

to:

user_pref(“xpinstall.enabled”, true);

Save the file and restart Firefox.→ Continue reading “Fixing "Software installation has been disabled by your system administrator" Notice When Attempting to Install An Addon for Firefox”