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There are a lot of examples of writing a simple JNI library for calling from a Java class. Unfortunately, few of them explain how to push your JNI class/loadable library into a package of it’s own. I ran into this problem today while trying to integrate a JNI library I’d […]

Working with JNI

Wed November 22, 2006 in Software Development tagged java / jni / Linux / Writing (updated 6735 days ago)

The project I’m working on has a Java client that communicates with a JBOSS server. The client launches applications on the local host, communicates with them using XML and sends data from the applications back to the JBOSS server using JAX-RPC (via Axis, at the moment). In order to manage […]

Learning to hate Java

Fri November 17, 2006 in Software Development tagged java / jni / Writing (updated 6739 days ago)

I’m working on a Java project at work that has a TCP-based server component that accepts XML messages from clients. I implemented an XML handler that I pass to the SAXParser class that takes the XML as an input stream. The client sends the XML message and then waits for […]

Discovery of the TCP Half-Close

Wed November 15, 2006 in Linux / Software Development tagged java (updated 6739 days ago)

Rondam Ramblings: Top ten geek business myths is a blog from a guy named Ron Garret who's been there, done that, and wants the geeks of the world to know that the truth just aint what you think. I won't rehash the whole blog, but let me summarize: If you […]

Geek happiness != wealth

Sat October 07, 2006 in General / Linux / Software Development tagged dell / graphics / GTK+ / java / Linux / Open Source / Writing

I did a little research this morning and found some potential fixes to the fixed positioning problems under IE. There is Eric Bednarz’s solution, which includes references to using IE’s conditional comments to load appropriate CSS styles. And then there is a thread form 2003 on WebmasterWorld.com that gives specific […]

Fixed Positioning for IE

Tue November 23, 2004 in Art and Graphics tagged java / Linux (updated 7463 days ago)

I keep trying to take my lunch hour to do some writing. There are only a few free hotspots in The Woodlands (which is way north Houston) so getting to one quickly is problematic at best. Starbuck’s are on every corner, with their T-Mobile HotSpots service, but why pay for […]

Finding a place to write

Thu October 07, 2004 in Writing tagged java / wifi / Writing (updated 7511 days ago)

Michael J. Hammel

Building a better today…because tomorrow is in question…