Paging Oracle developers…
This will be a quick post, as the problem is small. I will add, though, that setting up paging with database queries can be a major pain in the ass. Setting up the consumer – usually jQuery, ExtJS, DWR, or some other AJAX client, is hard enough, but then you have to translate the client’s version of “start-limit” to the persistance-side’s language. Sometimes it’s a simple start/limit pair, sometimes it’s a start/page pair, and then there’s Oracle, which decided to punt on the whole thing. Read more…
Post Technology Stack
- MyFaces 1.1.7 (JSF 1.1 spec)
- Java 1.5
- MyFaces Tomahawk 1.1.9
- ExtJS 3.1 *
Not Again…
JSF, that steaming pile of undocumented, developer-hating obfuscation has yet again soaked up about 16 hours of my time to do something that should have been a three second configuration. Just to reiterate, much like Randall Munroe’s hatred of velociraptors spurs him to evaluate houses based on their ability to repulse dinosauriod attacks, I find myself now evaluating jobs by how close the project requirements are to actually using the JSF framework.
That said, when you’re a contractor, you use the tools selected for you by the almighty architects. In my case, it’s JSF or my paycheck. Being the Alpha Geek that I am, I gratefully welcomed the paycheck an opportunity to learn more about JSF.
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