Michael's Blog

Yesterday I got the problem that IE does not render the box-shadow property. After a while a figgured out that the property „border-collapse: collapse;“ for a surrounding table prevents the rendering. I got the property inherited from a stylesheet of a JS Framework. After manipulating my css to the following configuration:

.shadowed {
   -moz-box-shadow: 0 0 5px 5px #DDD;
   -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 5px 5px #DDD;
   box-shadow: 0 0 5px 5px #DDD;
   border-collapse: separate;
}

it also works for IE, Safari, and Firefox. Thanks to thirtydot who gives me the right clue.

Because I spended a few hours for that, I decided to write a small blog post about that. The challenge was to create a JAXB implementation independent solution for writing CDATA sections with a JAXB marshaller. There are a lot of solutions out there but they are not satisfying me. A lot of them reference the MOXy CDATA annotation or using the Apache XMLSerializer. They are either not implementation independent, does not work, reference deprecated code or have other pitfalls.  The following solution fixes these by using a custom implementation of javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamWriter and has not 3rd party library dependencies. Only the classes of the Java 6 JDK are used. The solution is able to create the following xml:

<test xmlns="http://www.example.org/test" msg="foo">
	<text><![CDATA[<o>]]></text>
	<text>foo</text>
</test>

(mehr …)

Based on blog post from Nicolas Frankel I created the same class which works with portlets. So the method getNewApplication returns an application which is created via Spring.

import javax.portlet.PortletConfig;
import javax.portlet.PortletException;
import javax.portlet.PortletRequest;
 
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.web.portlet.context.PortletApplicationContextUtils;
 
import com.vaadin.Application;
import com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.server.AbstractApplicationPortlet;
 
public class SpringApplicationPortlet extends AbstractApplicationPortlet
{
 
   private Class<? extends Application> clazz;
 
   @Override
   public void init(PortletConfig config) throws PortletException
   {
      super.init(config);
 
      ApplicationContext appContext = PortletApplicationContextUtils.getWebApplicationContext(config.getPortletContext());
 
      Application application = appContext.getBean("application", Application.class);
 
      clazz = application.getClass();
   }
 
   @Override
   protected Class<? extends Application> getApplicationClass() throws ClassNotFoundException
   {
      return clazz;
   }
 
   @Override
   protected Application getNewApplication(PortletRequest request) throws PortletException
   {
      ApplicationContext appContext = PortletApplicationContextUtils.getWebApplicationContext(request.getPortletSession()
            .getPortletContext());
 
      return appContext.getBean("application", Application.class);
   }
 
}

Found a nice deal on mydealz.de for a full version of Lightroom 3. I want to use it not because of my big camera equipment (a Panasonic DMC-FX500), nor to start a career as photographer but for managing my photos and to remove small unbeautiful things like red eyes or a overexposure.

I ordered it today on the apple website in the United Kingdom. It should be deliverd in 4 weeks. Let’s see! To handle the no address in UK problem I used borderlinx from DHL. They provide me an address in UK, so I can place my order.

Update: We estimate your order to be shipped 04 Oct, 2010.