Weiss Tech House

Here's what to study for Monday's quiz:

• Know all of the bad smells from all the refactoring lectures. I'll ask you to briefly identify one or two of them.
• Know how to create and read system and user Preferences.
• Learn the Logger methods and be able to distinguish among the XxxHandlers.
• Know the various ways to get the Class of an object, and the basic getXxx methods. Don't bother with all the methods to dissect classes, modifiers, methods, etc.
• DTDs, XML Schema Definition Language (XSD), and RELAX NG--know the advantages and disadvantages of each, but the language constructs won't be covered.
• Perl--everything in this lecture is fair game, so work on your assignment.

Using Eclipse for servlets: In order to compile servlets with Eclipse, you need to link to the two jars servlet-api.jar and jsp-api.jar. They are in Tomcat\common\lib.

Also, Tomcat 5.0.27 and 5.0.29 don't seem to work with Java 1.5.0; I had to use Java 1.4.2. I think there is a list of allowable SDKs in a Tomcat configuration file, but I haven't had time to go looking for it.