I propose that the most off topic posts possible are developers lecturing other
people. "Magic Search Engines" ??? I think that
comp.patronizing.sarcastic.developers is archived on google now.
If you want to have an advanced discussion - ask an advanced question.
And yes, this post was also off topic :-)
Joseph Ottinger wrote:
> It's not only that it's really more or less offtopic for a JSP list - but
> that it shows up over and over and over again. Eventually, you'd hope that
> enough people would see the solution multiple times and start grasping that
> there WAS a solution, and what the solution was.
>
> Most of the questions on the list are fairly basic, which only bothers me
> because the answers are so readily available elsewhere, and in general it
> takes more time to write an email to jsp-i than it does to find solutions on
> the web. (The magic of search engines, you know.) In the end, what you see
> is the same kind of question over and over and over again, which can be
> answered by "see the archives, url http://....";, or "see the JSP spec," or
> even "see the API"... and often, even "see this related-yet-not-JSP API."
>
> I don't know who moderates the list; I do know that a number of contributors
> who'd be quite valuable to the list in general get turned off in a big way
> by the incessant and un-necessary noise. I tend to be active in fits and
> starts for the same reason - I pay attention to about thirty or forty mails,
> then hit delete for the next 400 - regardless of whether I'd be able to help
> the people or not.
>
> ObJSP: Searching for "database connection pooling in JSP" or
> "preparedstatement" tends to yield a lot of good information about these
> topics... and that means you don't have to crowd my poor HTTP proxy with
> lots of extra mail about converting dates for Oracle, and then Postgres, and
> then SQL Server, and then HSQL, and then mysql, and then every other DB in
> the universe... do it Java's way and you've instantly done it for EVERY
> database that has a driver that's compliant with the JDBC spec.
>
> >From: Celeste Haseltine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and
> > reference <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: DATE FORMAT
> >Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 10:24:59 -0500
> >
> >Joseph,
> >
> >I normally don't respond to things of this nature, but I felt it was
> >important enough to. Phillips problem may be a JDBC issue, but JDBC is a
> >very major part of JPS/servelet development. It's pretty hard to develop a
> >servlet/JSP WITHOUT knowing anything about JDBC. Therefore, I find these
> >types of questions relavant to the dicussion group, but then that's just
> >me.
> >What does the moderator of this group think?
> >
> >Celeste
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and reference
> >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joseph Ottinger
> >Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 9:59 AM
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: DATE FORMAT
> >
> >
> >Why aren't you letting the PreparedStatement set the datatypes for you?
> >(And
> >why does this particular issue show up over and over on JSP-interest,
> >despite it being a JDBC issue?)
> >
> >At any rate, converting a String to a Date is fairly easy: see
> >java.text.DateFormat.parse() in the API.
> >
> >
> > >From: Philip Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >Reply-To: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and
> > > reference <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >Subject: Re: DATE FORMAT
> > >Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 14:36:40 -0000
> > >
> > >It will depend on what degree of accuracy you will need.
> > >
> > >Here is a link to the API:
> > >http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/sql/package-tree.html
> > >
> > >Check out java.sql.Date and java.sql.Timestamp.
> > >
> > >We ran into several problems using the Date objects with Informix. We
> > >ended
> > >up storing the date as long in the database and creating an object to
> > >convert it to a String or a java.util.Date when needed. We found this
> > >would
> > >be more flexible if we needed change databases in the future.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>From: "[Lelievre Frederic]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >>Reply-To: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and
> > >> reference <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >>Subject: DATE FORMAT
> > >>Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 15:54:36 +0200
> > >>
> > >>Hi all,
> > >>I would like to change a String (String str = "01-MAY-2001 12:00:00";)
> >to
> > >>a
> > >>Oracle Date ?
> > >>And I would like to change a Oracle Date to a String.
> > >>How can I do this ?
> > >>
> > >>Give the code please .
> > >>Thank for your help.
> > >>
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