Whether you're building an application or a shared library, writing quality Javadoc is an important and sometimes difficult task. What follows are my thoughts on writing quality Javadoc. Write for Both Source Code and Web Consumption Many developers read Javadoc in source code within their IDE, rather than

A few years back, I took over a Java software project that had been written years before. The application was originally written as a generic platform that had later been refactored into a specific product. As such, there was a lot of code in the project that had been written

If you use Google Guice [https://github.com/google/guice] you should be aware that the struts2-guice-plugin doesn't work properly for projects that use custom type conversion (e.g., converters registered in xwork-conversion.properties). If you find this affects you, here's a simple, alternate ObjectFactory that

I’m going to show you how to use the NamedVariablePatternMatcher to build better URLs with Struts2. Before: http://www.example.com/profiles?username=steven After: http://www.example.com/profiles/steven For this example, we’ll map an action that displays a user’s profile page. The Action public

As a user (and avid fan) of IntelliJ, I benefit from a lot of great features in my Java IDE. One of those features is that IntelliJ will highlight code that it detects is unused. This works great in most cases, but it can’t detect code that is called