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JavaMail SMTP on localhost Fails with Amazon AWS SDK in Classpath (SOLVED)

Riyad Kalla — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:33:21 +0000

Update #1: I solved the stupid problem! If you are using JavaMail in your application (most likely a web application) and no matter what you do, you cannot get it to connect to your SMTP server on localhost (in my case, Postfix) and just constantly get a cryptically stupid exception message like: unable to connect [...]

New AJAX Binary-to-Text and Text-to-Binary Converter Released

Riyad Kalla — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:21:24 +0000

Along-side our other slew of handy AJAX utilities, we have just released a new Binary-to-Text and Text-to-Binary online utility. This utility is as easy to use as the others, just decide if you want to convert binary to text or text to binary, select the respective tab and then past your original text in the [...]

AJAX Base 64 Decode/Encoder & MD5 Generator Utilities

Riyad Kalla — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:35:55 +0000

I would like to announce the launch of a couple new AJAX-enabled online utilities that software developers might find handy: Base64 Encoder/Decoder MD5 Generator For those interested the utilities are written using the Play! Framework (Java) and JQuery/JQuery UI and the Base64 and MD5 generation is backed by the Commons Codec project. These utilities are [...]

@Override Compiler Errors in Play! Framework “Must Override a Superclass Method”

Riyad Kalla — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:58:10 +0000

If you are working with the Play! Framework and have run into exceptions that read like “The file <MyFile>.java could not be compiled. Error raised is : The method <MethodName> of type <ClassName> must override a superclass method” then you might be wondering if there is a compiler bug in Play! – worry not, it’s [...]

Develop using the Play! Framework

Ray Gomez — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:15:45 +0000

Not too long ago I posted an article on the Play! framework. The framework has some promising features that really helps develop web applications in Java. To show how easy it is to use, I wanted to demonstrate with an example. Update #1: Since the article posting there have been a couple of suggestions for [...]

The Play! Framework

Ray Gomez — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:14:45 +0000

In an endless search for efficiently building Web applications, one might stumble upon a new framework called Play! Using enterprise backed Java with a Rails-esque feel, the Play! framework seems to offer quite a bit over traditional web development tools with its straightforward development environment and ease of deploying. Taken from the website: The Play! [...]