I’ve deployed the 1st version of the Acronym Challenge webapp to the server at this location.

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Restarting Tomcat everytime I deployed with the Lomboz Eclipse plugin was proving to be too lengthy, so I set out trying to customize Ant a bit.

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The controller is finished, although it may change later. It takes a URL string from the request and instantiates an Action object which then can forward someone to a JSP page or do whatever.

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I removed the unwieldly wu-ftp stuff from the server today (wieldiness is proportional to my own knowledge) and replaced it with the ever promising ProFTP server. Of notability is its ability to avoid recursive DNS lookups which were slowing things down. If I see an attack, I’ll just do a whois.

Finally got a useful action map coded. Before, the controller was just simply printing Strings. Now, Classes are being instantiated from a Properties file and the Action interface is working as it should. The latest version of the Controller is posted.

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Accomplished a few things today … I finally figured out how to create an externalized mapping of commands to classes. I was reading a chapter in the book JavaServer Pages by Oreilly. They described a popular technique of creating an Action Interface and then extending this interface to give you a mapping of actions to class names. This is the code snippet they show:

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I am going to document my progress through a personal challenge so to help others and myself learn about steps A-Z in creating a web app from scratch.

The Acronym Challenge is going to be a posting game (I use this term loosely) where an acronym will be posted and people submit entries that match the acronym. For example, TCP = tangy chocolate popsicles. Then the entries can be voted on. A set number of top scoring entries will be displayed, etc, etc. The entire system will be anonymous to start with and may or may not incorporate login functionality. I want it to be easy to use.

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