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One of my tasks at Mersoft was to update a .net web site. In the website, there was a data table that needed to be sortable. However, the .net’s TableHeaderCell did not have a clickable feature, and I couldn’t find any equivalent that was clickable. So, I created my own. Here’s how I did it…
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My first task at Mersoft was to develop an ajax-rich web interface with a Java backend. I was told that it must be tabbed and was shown the existing interface which pretty much was just a file upload. The project was to keep the file upload plus have several tabs containing different types of reports [...]
Are you seeing duplicate or multiple log messages using log4j xml configuration?
The configuration below produces three log messages.
log4j.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration SYSTEM "log4j.dtd">
<log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/">
<appender name="console" class="org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender">
<param name="Target" value="System.out" />
<layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
<param name="ConversionPattern" value="%-5p %c{1} – %m%n" />
</layout>
</appender>
<logger name="com.acme.LoggingTest">
<level value="debug" />
<appender-ref ref="console" />
</logger>
<logger name="com.acme">
<level value="debug" />
<appender-ref ref="console" />
</logger>
<root>
<priority value="debug" />
<appender-ref ref="console" />
</root>
</log4j:configuration>
LoggingTest.java:
package com.acme;
public class LoggingTest {
private [...]
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Try as we may…we can’t help everybody. Recently, we worked closely with a Kansas City company in the healthcare field that needed a custom software solution. After running through several options in terms of commercial, pre-built options, we came to the realization that there was indeed nothing available that did precisely what our customer needed. [...]
