Ear comparator

Many Occasions, we might end up with comparing two ear/war files in our project for some reasons. Here is the link for EAR comparator utility (Good stuff Joseph! – The mastermind behind this tool). You may think it will be good if you have some utility to compare such circumstances.

I have link below for ear files comparator utility. I strongly recommend this tool to make your job easier. 

http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowZip.asp?lngWId=2&lngCodeId=4901&strZipAccessCode=tp%2FE49010037

Anymore suggestions? Drop those in comments section.

Cheers,

-NjN

To start work with Maven (more than a build and deploy tool)

So far I have used ant as a build tool in all my projects. When I recently gone through the articles, found Maven used widely in most of the Java/J2EE applications. I tried to install maven in my machine recently. But found many issues and it was very difficult to follow the setup to complete my very first build.

I have found an excellent material to work with Maven. It has step by step guide with the screen prints. I found the below link is very interesting to follow. Hope this will useful to you as well.

http://www.avajava.com/tutorials/categories/maven

How to work with browser specific Style sheets

If you would have worked with web applications I am sure you might had difficult time to deal with applying the style sheets specific to browser and its’ version.

Have found nice information on applying the browser specific style sheets recently.  Wanted to share with you guys.

Below article explains very well on conditional based approach (browser & version) to apply the different CSS files. This is most commonly used approach as well. 

http://viralpatel.net/blogs/2009/09/how-to-create-ie-specific-css-stylesheet.html

CSS cross browser selector comes with noticeable approach, where we no need to write different CSS files. Within the same CSS file we can mention the style classes based on the brower&version.

http://rafael.adm.br/css_browser_selector

The second will be most preferable if we have css file with lesser contents. What do you think?