Category Archives: Java

More on boilerplate and IoC

By Alastair | December 6, 2006

Java has lately been seriously annoying me in this regard. Why do I have to write getters/setters for beans? Why can’t we just have a property keyword instead that does it automatically? Why does everyone insist on using getters/setters in the first place rather than public fields anyway? What’s the point? Ah, yes, we need [...]

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Java boilerplate

By Alastair | December 5, 2006

I fixed a Wicket bug today for compressing whitespace in HTML. The wrinkle is that you need to avoid doing that inside <pre> tags, otherwise your code formatting goes all wrong.
You should probably just gzip your responses instead, as it’ll be much more efficient than this, but apparently, someone cares enough to raise a bug [...]

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