Struts with Tiles I dropped the tiles-blank-struts1-1.war from Jakarta Struts into the JBoss deploy directory and it worked great.

I think I will be using Tiles for my application. Initially though it will just be as a overpowered replacement for Templates, which was the layout mechanism for Struts 1.0. 9:45 AM

  Firestorm I downloaded and installed an eval copy of Firestorm. Given a JDBC connection or SQL script, Firestorm is supposed to generate all your DAO objects, along with a test harness containing Struts, Ant, Session Facade and Business delegate code.

It choked on the very first file in my database. I spent over an hour trying to massage the SQL, but to no avail. Firestorm works fine with the demo SQL scripts that come with it. I wish it would have worked for me, but their generated code might still be useful. I'll have to look it over in detail. 7:47 PM

  PostgreSQL JDBC Driver The JDBC driver for PostgreSQL download and installed without a hitch this afternoon. 7:35 PM

  JBoss :: Professional Open Source Now that JBoss is up and running, I decided to take a stab at the JBoss IDE, which is built on Eclipse.

I installed JBoss IDE 1.2.0 on Eclipse 2.1.0 and everything went smoothly. When I open up the Server Navigator tab, it lists my JBoss 2.4.x install as 'not running'. A simple click on the 'start' button and I was on my way. A console window opened up to show all the startup messages. The only problem I have is that the 'shutdown' button is never active. I have to hit the 'terminate' button to shutdown JBoss. 11:47 AM

  JBoss is working I installed JBoss on my desktop a while ago, but could never get it working. Today, I decided to uninstall everything Java, App server or web server related (bye bye Tomcat).

I then installed just the things I needed (JBoss 2.4.3, Jetty 3.1.3, Ant, JDK 1.3.1, and Struts 1.1) and it worked!

I then dropped struts-example.war into the jboss\deploy directory and that worked too! 8:12 PM

  Recursion solved I figured out how to get the recursive relationship setup in PostgreSQL.

After creating the public.person table, I create the loader record:

INSERT INTO public.person (person_name) VALUES ('loader');

Then I update that record to show that it was updated by itself:

UPDATE public.person SET updated_by = ( SELECT person_id FROM public.person );

Now that the record obeys the recursive constraint that I want to set up, I add the constraint:

ALTER TABLE public.person ADD CONSTRAINT person_updated_by_fk FOREIGN KEY (updated_by) REFERENCES public.person(person_id);

Now every time I add a new record, I do it this way:

INSERT INTO public.person (person_name, updated_by) VALUES ('first user', (
SELECT person_id FROM public.person WHERE person_name = 'loader' ));

It works! 1:38 PM

  LAMP project In addition to my main PostgreSQL / JBoss / Jetty / Struts job, I also have a Linux / Apache / MySQL / PHP side job.

This is my first PHP job, so I am learning as I go. More on that later. 2:22 PM