Recently I was faced with the challenge of implementing form-level (or page-level) validation in a JSF-based application. What I mean by form-level validation is the need to evaluate a subset of a form’s fields as a unit, rather than simply validating each field in isolation. An example of this type of validation can be found [...]

It’s Friday night, and what am I doing but coding. My wife’s night out is spent at the scrapbook store working on her latest layouts - mine is at my new favorite coffee shop, working on open source. I discovered this place on a date with Wendy a couple of months ago. The nice thing [...]

I recently migrated all of my Java/Development related posts from http://www.analienandastranger.com. I want to make this a PRIMARILY Java/Development-related blog. When I was splitting my efforts between Christianity and Software Development, I was quickly getting burned out and not writing anything. If you want to read any of my old devotional posts, I will be [...]