No fields are required

By Peter Hilton. Published on November 15, 2007 in Development

There is an accepted wisdom in software design that the way to gather good quality data is to reject ‘bad data’. The main tactic is to suppose that no data is better than incomplete data, which is why we are told ‘you must complete the required fields’. This sounds like a fine idea, until you observe people filling in a form and typing ‘unknown’ into half of the fields. (more…)

JBoss User Group - photos

By Peter Hilton. Published on November 11, 2007 in Fun stuff, JBoss

Here are a few photos from last week’s JBoss User Group event. (more…)

Changing credentials without logging in again in Seam 1.2.1

By Nicolas Leroux. Published on November 7, 2007 in Development, Java, JBoss

This article explains how to do programmatic log in, in a Seam 1.2.1 application. If like us, you want to allow your users to change their credentials once they are logged in into your application, you might be forced to log them out and to ask them to re-login. There is a nicer way to do this.

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