Ran into a problem returning an XML data with special characters encoded into it through an AJAX call. The problem was that special characters (i.e. ñ -> ñ) throws an error when being returned through XML and is in the process of being parsed by the browser. The catch? XML does not support named entities [...]

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Encountered this problem today while testing an image upload AJAX script in tomcat. Later on I found out that the folder is actually protected Win7 and tomcat couldn’t write the cache or temporary file into the folder. So anyone having this problem, check the following… What OS are you running? Vista/Win7? What IDE are you [...]

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I’m currently playing around with Java Native Interfaces(JNI) and I must say its been too long since I programmed in Java. Its good to be back! Anyway, lets hop to the main topic… I was following the tutorial from Sun in creating my first JNI and calling my compiled C++ library, I was stuck in [...]

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These are the steps I took to install Jakarta Tomkat 5.5 in conjunction with Java 2 SDK in Ubuntu server. Login as root, you can also use “su” though I prefer to login as root. apt-get install sun-java5-jdk This will install Java 2 SDK (1.5), ubuntu will start downloading packages that are not found in [...]

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