Phillip Pearson - Second p0st

tech notes and web hackery from the guy that brought you bzero, python community server, the blogging ecosystem, the new zealand coffee review and the internet topic exchange

2006-2-8

My first WAR file

Finally I have a reason to write something in Java - a servlet to make queries against the eBay API and return the results to a Javascript application in a browser. So now I can add dom4j (Java DOM library), jaxen (Java XPath library) and JSON / org.json* (Javascript-friendly serialisation protocol) to my list of technologies I have used.

Also, today I built my first WAR file, to send an early version of the code to the client. Easier than expected, a pleasant surprise!

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