Author Archives: Olaf

I wanted to fill test data into an existing database with many foreign keys. These foreign keys were somewhat unusual because the tables were not linked via their primary keys but via a combination of other fields. Since I did … Continue reading →

Since the second milestone of GWT has been released (Google Web Toolkit 2.1.0 M2 Downloads) I wanted to give it a try and check some of the new features, especially the new MVP framework. In the past I used gwt-presenter … Continue reading →

Today my Eclipse Galileo hung at start up. After trying some tricks such as eclipse -clean, or eclipse -debug -console, searching for hints in the log files, removing xulrunner from the java.library.path environment, deleting some of the most recent history … Continue reading →

I wanted to change the default style of the splitters of the new Google GWT SplitLayoutPanel. Unfortunately the height and the width of the VDragger and the HDragger are hardcoded. In the source code one can find the following comments: … Continue reading →

The Google GWT TabLayoutPanel is working fine on Chrome and Firefox but currently on IE8 only the first tab is visible. I ran into this problem a few days ago. But as always with such kinds of problems in software … Continue reading →

I ran into problems with a GWT application for which I use the OpenID4Java library to provide a simple one click login for users with existing accounts at Google, Yahoo or other OpenID providers. Everything worked fine on the embedded … Continue reading →

I wanted to try a GWT application based on the new layout classes introduced in Google Web Toolkit 2.0 with the Internet Explorer 8. To my surprise the IE 8 showed only an empty page. Switching to IE7 standards mode … Continue reading →

Solution to the problem: apt-get remove libclamav3 clamav and every other dependency with apt-get autoremove and download and install all “*0.95.3*hardy2*.deb” packages from http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/clamav/ with dpkg -i libclamav*; dpkg -i install clamav*. Have a nice weekend.

After upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic” I had some problems using Eclipse 3.5 “Galileo”. Some buttons did not show any reaction, especially the installation of new plugins or the update of already installed plugins did not work. The solution was … Continue reading →