There's a nice article about Macs in Germany on MacDirectory. Very worth reading (besonders, wenn man aus Deutschland kommt ;-) ). The article addresses many well known issues, especially the price situation (although it keeps getting better), the conservatively marketing of Apple Germany and the fact that not every German drinks beer :-)

I was working on an ActionForm which has the property password. When I was testing the JSP view I wondered why the field always was filled although I never called the corresponding setter in the action. "Damn", I thought. "Where does this stupid value come from?" I had no clue. Then suddenly a light flashed through my mind: Mozilla has a nice feature called "auto fill forms" ... oh my =)

Yesterday I compiled a project on my iBook and deployed the resulting jar files. Today the customer called me and told me that the CSV parser wasn't working anymore. After some research I found out that javac on OS X doesn't use ISO-8859-1 as the default encoding (I guess it uses MacRoman). Acutally the problem is that we have german umlauts in some of our source files. Therefore it is a good idea to specifiy the enconding property in your ant task:

<javac encoding="iso-8859-1" ...
...

If you want to keep your JSP compilation results between server restarts you have to tell Jetty where to put the results. Otherwise Jetty will use a different directory on each restart. The simplest way is to add an init-parameter in webdefault.xml: [code] jsp org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet scratchdir /tmp/jetty 0 [/code]

My generator seems still to be buggy because the items are listed twice on javablogs.com. Sorry!