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Friday, February 12, 2010

oncontextmenu Event

How to disable right mouse click on a browser window?

It can be resolved by the useage of oncontextmenu event in your html body tag, the usage is shown given below.

<body oncontextmenu="return false;">

AllowEncodedSlashes Directive

Sometimes our web application fails to process request when the URL contains encoded slashes (it can be forward slash or backword slash). To avoid such kind of situations we should modify configurations in Http Apache server. Add below directive to httpd.conf file.

AllowEncodedSlashes On|Off

It determines whether encoded path separators in URLs are allowed to be passed through.
The default value will be Off. Turn it On.
The AllowEncodedSlashes directive allows URLs which contain encoded path separators (%2F for /  and additionally %5C for \ on according systems) to be used. Normally such URLs are refused with a 404 (Not found) error.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Should white spaces in template text between actions or directives be trimmed?

Sometimes when we generate response text from a JSP page, we will get white spaces/lines in the response text. To avoid that we have to configure our tomcat web.xml file. Follow below steps to avoid the white spaces.


Goto Tomcat Directory/conf folder
Open web.xml file to edit.
Search for a  <servlet> tag, where you can find <servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name> .
Add <init-param> tag as like below:


<init-param>
<param-name>trimSpaces</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</init-param>


Save the web.xml file and restart the tomcat.


It will remove white spaces from your response text.

Friday, February 5, 2010

How to get auto-generated keys from database using jdbc in java


There are cases that our database insert statements can generate auto-increment ids when we perform executeUpdate() method on our PreparedStatement object. The example given below gives an idea how to get those auto increment ids. After perfoming executeUpdate() method on PreparedStatement, call getGeneratedKeys() method on PreparedStatement. It will return you ResultSet, from which you can get auto increment column values.

Connection conn = null;
PreparedStatement pstmt = null;
ResultSet rset = null;
String query = "insert into emps (name, dept, salary) values (?,?,?)";
try{
//get connection object here
conn = Get Connection Object Here;
pstmt = conn.prepareStatement(query,Statement.RETURN_GENERATED_KEYS);
pstmt.setString(1, "Junk Fellow");
pstmt.setString(2, "Junk Dept");
pstmt.setFloat(3, 10000.00);
pstmt.executeUpdate();
rset = pstmt.getGeneratedKeys();
if(rset != null && rset.next()){
System.out.println("Generated Emp Id: "+rset.getInt(1));
}
} catch (SQLException exx) {
exx.printStackTrace();
} finally {
try{
if(conn != null) conn.close();
if(rset != null) rset.close();
if(pstmt != null) pstmt.close();
} catch(Exception ex){
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Java Servlet API - ServletContextListener Usage Example Code

Whenever the web application got instantiated, it initializes the class which implements ServletContextListener, and calls contextDestroyed() method. Also the application context calls contextDestroyed() method when the application getting shutting down. We can use this type of classes to initialize application sepecific processes.The example for ServletContextListener is given below.

package com.test.listener;
import javax.servlet.ServletContextEvent;
import javax.servlet.ServletContextListener;

public final class ApplicationListenerContext implements ServletContextListener {

public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent scEvent) {
/*
* This method will get called when the application instance got created.
* Initialiaze required process here.
*/
}
public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent arg0) {
/*
* This method will get called when the application instance is shutting down.
* Shutdown initialined processes here.
*/
}
}

Also add below entry to web.xml to register context listener.

<listener>
<listener-class>com.test.listener.ApplicationListenerContext</listener-class>
</listener>

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Working with Java Memcached API


Memcached is a memory object caching system. It is used to improve the performance of web applications which is dynamic in nature.  Memcached server is an in-memory key value store for small amount of data like strings, objects from results of database calls, API calls, or page rendering.  It is very simple. Server (daemon) process written in C, providing an in-memory hashmap. Clients can be written in any language.

The below example gives very basic example to understand memcached server. 

Set memcached clinet jar file (memcached-client-2.3.jar) in your classpath.

General Usage:

Use below code to connect with memcache and push object to memcache and retrive object from memcache.

MemcachedClient c = null;
try{
c = new MemcachedClient(new InetSocketAddress("memcached_host_IP", PORT));
c.set("MyTest", 60*60*24, new Integer(20));
int fromMC = (Integer)c.get("MyTest");
System.out.println(fromMC);
} catch (Exception ex){
out.println("Exception raised when getting object from memcached; "+ex.getMessage());
} finally{
if(c != null) c.shutdown();
}

In the above code below line creates MemcachedClient with memcached ip, and port. It establishes connection to the memcache.

c = new MemcachedClient(new InetSocketAddress("memcached_host_IP", PORT));

The below line is storing Integer object into the memcache with a key "MyTest". You can get the object using this key. The object will be available in memcache for 24 hours.

c.set("MyTest", 60*60*24, new Integer(20));

The below line gets the stored object from memcache by passing key. You need to do proper typecast.

int fromMC = (Integer)c.get("MyTest");

The finally block below closes the memcache client connection.

finally{
if(c != null) c.shutdown();
}


Advaned Usage:

MemcachedClient may be processing a great deal of asynchronous messages or possibly dealing with an unreachable memcached, which may delay processing. If a memcached is disabled, for example, MemcachedConnection will continue to attempt to reconnect and replay pending operations until it comes back up. To prevent this from causing your application to hang, you can use one of the asynchronous mechanisms to time out a request and cancel the operation to the server.

Get a memcached client connected to several servers, over the binary protocol.

MemcachedClient c = new MemcachedClient(new BinaryConnectionFactory(), AddrUtil.getAddresses("server1:11211 server2:11211"));