JDK 1.5 Is End Of Service Life (EOSL)

Hey mis queridos amigos amantes y vividores del J2EE y anexas:

JDK 1.5 will reach its "End Of Service Life" in October, 2009. JDK 1.5 will be no more officially supported after this period. You can buy, however, commercial support even for the next 15 years - if you cannot migrate to JDK 1.6.
...there is no need to worry - in case you are still running on JDK 1.4

May Enterprise Release

This is my first enterprise release on VZW.

It started at 1:00am (now Sunday) - Because I had to stay at Release Night Support, I tested all my webservices & sub services that I did, and fortunately everything looks good on Production.

But what difficult has to develop a webservice?
Actually is not a big deal, but the big issue is to make a Webservice without database :D, in other words my backend is a Legacy System (pure Cobol), yep, not a DB.

That inche Cobol is very powerful, and by the way it help us to reuse the most of the already developed business logic.

Anyway, this is not a tutorial, I can talk about this crap later or if somebody ask me how I solve it.

There was one issue, but it wasn't my fault, something wrong on backend, but you know me, I'm a cute & proactive boy :P

It has been a very good experience, everything was smooth, with very few issues, not very important things.

The best part was the breakfast :P

Well, I think has been a long night, I'm almost done, because I have to wait until I got the sign off, meanwhile I'll continue watching movies :)

See you later aligator!!!

Publishing on EATJ

This is my first try, deploying on my server: EATJ

Configurar JSP 2.0 en Tomcat 5.5

Existe mucha confusión acerca de la JSPs version 2.0, porque hay un lío de versiones, urls y la falta o poca claridad de la documentación de Sun es preocupante.

Para empezar, no está nada claro de donde bajarse los últimos jars, ya que en la web de sun no viene nada. Hay que acudir al proyecto jakarta. El enlace para descargar las librerías ( jstl.jar y standard.jar) está aquí.

La siguiente sorpresa es la versión del jar. Si esperas encontrar un 2.0 en algún sitio estás equivocado. La librería es la version 1.1 (actualmente 1.1.2). Pon las dos librerías en tu WEB-INF/lib

Hay que declarar en el descriptor de la webapp, aka web.xml, que trabajaremos con servlets de version 2.4:
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation=" http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"
version="2.4">


Y por último, lo metes todo en tu web-app, y esperas que funcione facilmente. Pues no, o sí, pero hay que saber el último truco. Hay que cambiar la directiva taglib para hacer referencia a una nueva url, casi identica a la anterior. Aquí está la lista de las nuevas urls.

Vamos, un lío. Pero merece la pena para no escribir c:out nunca mas!