You can download a neat flash broadband speed test from http://www.speedtest.net/mini.php and put it on your own web site.
It comes with server side scripts in PHP, ASP.NET, and ASP for the upload half of the test.  But what if you want it to run on your java web container server such as tomcat or jboss?
Well, I […]

I recently ran across this error message when running Flex Data Services 2 inside JBoss 4.0.3 SP1:
ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[localhost].[/samples].[MessageBrokerServlet]:145]
Allocate exception for servlet MessageBrokerServlet
java.lang.RuntimeException: XPathFactory#newInstance() failed to create an XPathFactory for the default object model: http://java.sun.com/jaxp/xpath/dom with the XPathFactoryConfigurationException: javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactoryConfigurationException: No XPathFctory implementation found for the object model: http://java.sun.com/jaxp/xpath/dom
The problem is with JBoss 4.0.3 SP1 and is […]

Here is a step-by-step tutorial explaining the quickest and easiest way to expose a plain old java object (POJO) as a web service.  This example uses jboss’s new web services stack (JBossWS-1.0.2.GA).  With this method you can quickly convert any java object into a web service.  For example, you could expose data access objects to a […]