Adding SOAP Headers to CXF Calls

Recently, I consumed a WSDL with Apache CXF that required authentication information to be placed into a SOAP Header rather than through standard HTTP authentication. This is all well and good, but I couldn’t figure out how to attach the headers to the CXF method calls. The authentication object had been generated by [...]

Using Autocompleter.Local with Ajax Lists

The Autocompleter suite of functions in Scriptaculous are pretty nice. While they don’t solve every autocomplete problem straight out, they do provide a good starting point.
However, the answers to problems in Javascript are not always obvious. Despite some amazing support from Firebug, debugging is often difficult and tracing down problems can be rough.
Earlier [...]

Manually Set Map Value in Struts 2

Often, the Struts 2 tag library doesn’t offer enough functionality to support a nice DHTML type of layout. In those cases, I find myself creating URLs manually to send to the action.
In most cases, this isn’t a bid deal. However, to make it work right, you have to duplicate the format that Struts [...]