Andrej Koelewijn

There’s a good introduction to the new JSP expression language part of J2EE 1.4 in the Enterprise Java Technologies Technical Tips. I think the expression language is a really valuable addition to JSP’s, making jsp’s almost as easy to write as velocity pages.

If you’re not using a J2EE 1.4 compliant application server yet, you can use JSTL instead. It’s not as nice, as the expression language will only work inside JSTL tags, but it’s better than nothing. If you’re using Oracle’s 9iAS, be warned that you’ll need to upgrade oc4j to version 9.0.3, as JSTL’s expression language will not work on 9.0.2.2 and earlier. OC4J 9.0.2 is not J2EE version 1.3 compliant, version 9.0.3 is!

Usefull links: J2SE 1.5.0 Beta 1, Summary of New Features and Enhancements, J2SE 1.5 in a Nutshell, New Language Features for Ease of Development in the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 1.5: A Conversation with Joshua Bloch, JDK 1.5 Sample Code, Class Data Sharing.

Mark Rittman writes that Quest will buy Tora. I wonder why Quest would buy Tora considering that they already own Toad. I like Tora, but i consider Toad to be a better tool. Maybe Quest just wants to protect Toad by buying Tora and even further slowing Tora’s development?

Brian Duff writes that he had some problems reading the html generated by his uix pages. But he also mentiones that there is a solution. If you set the configuration property debug to true, the generated html code will be readable.

I currently have a different but somewhat similar problem. I’ve created a jsp which generates about 120kb of html. If i format this html page using tidy, it’s only 18kb in size (lots of lines with only spaces). Is there a way to configure OC4J (9.0.3) to remove those spaces?

My laptop is currently being repared, and i’m not really following all the blogs, it’s too hard without a rss newsreader. That’s why i hadn’t noticed brian duff’s Orablogs yet. Thank’s brian, this is just what i need right now.