I didn’t have a good reason or pressing need to write this bit of eye-candy. I just wanted to see if I could. It’s obviously inspired by the OSX dock bar, but with a HTML implementation. Here is an example:

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Outside of using a decent framework, a lot of J2EE applications still handle their own DBIO. And just like memory resource leaks are a problem in C++, database resource leaks are a problem in virtually every J2EE application I’ve worked on.

But what do you do? You’ve got a legacy code base of several hundred thousand lines of code. Much of it written by (less than ideal) coders who have since left the project. There isn’t the money to fix every leak, even if you could find them all. And don’t even mention switching to a better framework. Just keep patching the worst offenders, right?

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I use the Eclipse IDE almost exclusively for Java development. However I’ve had a difficult time getting it working on my PPC Linux based laptop. This is a HOWTO intended to spare others from the agony I’ve recently been through.

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UPDATED: Please check out version 2 of buglog at the end of this article. (added support for CVSWeb)

To begin, I dislike the term “integration” when talking about development tools. It has been abused by marketing drones (read:Rational) to the point of being nearly meaningless. My version control system is not “integrated” with my XML editor just because I save my documents in a repository. Similarly my sock is not integrated with my foot just because I pull it over my toes. But this is a losing battle, and this is closer to the real meaning of integration then most other examples. So I use the term here:

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In organizations or departments containing multiple development groups, it is advantageous to administer each group’s projects into using one central server. This document describes how to create a central CVS repository for n number of development teams. This repository will contain m number of developers with a mix of single and multi-project permissions.

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Tabbed interfaces are a staple of UI development, yet are missing from HTML. Fortunately, they’re relatively simple to implement using a little cross-browser JavaScript and HTML DOM.

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