Re: Gump and Unicode

2003-06-11 Thread Brian Ewins
Use the unicode escapes rather than the character literals in the code? You won't get DoubleMetaphone.java to compile unless you pass the encoding flag to javac. The two letters appear to be \u00C7, \u00D1 - capital C with a cedilla and capital N with a tilde? Putting case '\u00C7': case

Bug in maven b9, affecting some jakarta releases

2003-06-03 Thread Brian Ewins
There is a bug in Maven Beta 9 (the current release) that causes jars to be produced with invalid manifests. The problem with the manifests only comes to light when using the jars inside an Extension aware program - eg. Tomcat (releases that use org.apache.catalina.loader.Extension) Jakarta

Re: Forum Software for Jakarta?

2003-01-15 Thread Brian Ewins
I'd disagree. I've yet to see a web based forum that has searching/threading of discussions that are as good as what a mail client can do, or one where I can have the entire forum offline with me while I read/reply at my leisure. Since you mention a specific example, I've experienced phpBB (on

Re: FYI: Follow up on the XML'ization of MS Office 11

2002-12-18 Thread Brian Ewins
Jon Scott Stevens wrote: on 2002/12/17 10:22 AM, Brian Ewins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is old news I but I just saw it today: there's a tool that can convert word 2000 docs (saved as html) to an xml doc and an xsl-t script to generate xsl:fo - and from there to PDF. http://www

Re: FYI: Follow up on the XML'ization of MS Office 11

2002-12-17 Thread Brian Ewins
This is old news I but I just saw it today: there's a tool that can convert word 2000 docs (saved as html) to an xml doc and an xsl-t script to generate xsl:fo - and from there to PDF. http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/fabgia/wh2fo/wh2fo.html Very nice trick. Dominique Devienne wrote: ... which

Re: IDE Developers' guide

2002-11-25 Thread Brian Ewins
Andrew C. Oliver wrote: One of the things I find most frustrating is dealing with IDE Developers, meaning those developers who cut their teeth on Microsoft tools and never learned how to even set their PATH let alone their classpath. Classpath? I remember those However, the standard

Re: IDE Developers' guide

2002-11-25 Thread Brian Ewins
Andrew C. Oliver wrote: Actually using Ant (or Maven) from an IDE is easy enough. The tricky bit is getting the IDE to see the same classpath that the build script uses, for code completion and the like. I noticed the Maven to Eclipse integration for example tries to work by allowing you to

[PATCH] Re: IDE Developers' guide

2002-11-25 Thread Brian Ewins
Small changes to the 'getinvolved' and 'source' pages to make it easier to find info on contributing patches. Out of curiosity I did this completely within netbeans - it was a surprisingly simple and pleasant point-and-click experience. As for the Ant/Maven stuff, You might want to link to

Re: Newsletter

2002-10-18 Thread Brian Ewins
As a reader, monthly is a good frequency. Maybe I'm expecting something different from the newsletter than you're looking to include? I look at the newsletter as being something like kernel traffic[1], the kernel cousins[2], or the 'eclectic' weblog[3]. It lets me keep up with the direction

Re: Bug handling survey - Tree based models

2002-10-09 Thread Brian Ewins
The big image in Gunes' description is wrongly linked to: file:///home/gkoru/tbdm1.jpg you can find it at: http://engr.smu.edu/~gkoru/surveys/tbdm1.jpg Gunes Koru wrote: Hello Jakarta contributors, I am conducting a survey about the way bugs are handled in open source software projects. The

Re: Differences between Structs and Turbine ???

2002-10-08 Thread Brian Ewins
Pier Fumagalli wrote: I believe that Andy doesn't quite know what templates are ! :-) Dude, we're not talking about the beauty of XML around here, but stuff that Macromedia DreamWeaver can parse and (somehow) render! :-) In my shop we've gone our own way, with our own templating sytem

Re: Differences between Structs and Turbine ???

2002-10-08 Thread Brian Ewins
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: I was trying to stay out, but this *always* comes up in these discussions, and I think it's somewhat disingenuous. First, you have a similar thing in JSTL, and one added and desginers who work with JavaScript on the client side get method calls. It's not differnet than