Having some problems getting Ant running the way I want to. It’s another question of whether the IDE (Eclipse) is being too inflexible or if I’m not doing something right. Eclipse doesn’t ship with functionality that allows ant build options. Here’s a log of what I’ve been trying.

Update on new functionality.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 […]

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 […]