Documenting HttpServletRequest

For such a core object the HttpServletRequest javadoc is a little lacking in the Examples Dept. when it comes to documented output. With various methods returning various parts of URLs, it’s often easy to pick the wrong one, so I thought I’d knock up a little table with the getters which trip me up sometimes. Read the rest of this entry »

Excluding log4j dependencies

While it’s noted in a few other places that there can be issues with the small world of unnecessary transient Sun dependencies that log4j pulls in to a Maven 2 project, and that the easiest thing is to exclude them; I thought I’d get it down here too, as trouble has again come a knocking at my door with this particular hat on.

<dependency>
    <groupId>log4j</groupId>
    <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
    <version>1.2.15</version>
    <optional>false</optional>
    <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
            <groupId>com.sun.jdmk</groupId>
            <artifactId>jmxtools</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
        <exclusion>
            <groupId>com.sun.jmx</groupId>
            <artifactId>jmxri</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
        <exclusion>
            <groupId>javax.jms</groupId>
            <artifactId>jms</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
    </exclusions>
</dependency>