November 2009 – bits.of.info

Gotcha! Tomcat strict quote escaping

Posted on November 30, 2009December 4, 2009 by bitsofinfo

So I was recently upgrading an older application from Tomcat 6.0.16 to 6.0.20 and started to see a JasperException appear on several JSP pages I was testing. The exception stated something similar to the following: [insert your var here] is quoted with " which must be escaped when used within the value.. So I looked … Continue reading Gotcha! Tomcat strict quote escaping →

Book Review: Java SOA Cookbook

Posted on November 15, 2009December 22, 2009 by bitsofinfo

This is a review of the book Java SOA Cookbook by Eben Hewitt Not having much experience with "SOA", other than a horrible experience with Apache Axis years ago, I figured it would be good to pick up a book that covers the latest and greatest in this field. "Java SOA Cookbook" is quite the … Continue reading Book Review: Java SOA Cookbook →

Reading fixed length/width input records with Hadoop mapreduce

Posted on November 1, 2009June 5, 2012 by bitsofinfo

While working on a project where I needed to quickly import 50-100 million records I ended up using Hadoop for the job. Unfortunately the input files I was dealing with were fixed width/length records, hence they had no delimiters which separated records, nor did they have any CR/LFs to separate records. Each record was exactly … Continue reading Reading fixed length/width input records with Hadoop mapreduce →