An elegant navigation menu bar using css 3

In this post we will try to create an elegant navigation menu bar as shown in the image above as well as explaining the css tricks used to achieve the same.

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Consuming a webservice using Apache Axis2

The post assumes one to be familiar with the steps to create and host a web service using Apache Axis2. If not, you can refer the following tutorial.

Configuring Apache Axis2
1. Download the Apache Axis2 Binary packages from here
2. Extract the binary package and set the variable AXIS2_HOME to point to the extracted location
3. Append %AXIS2_HOME%\bin to your path

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Axis2 Web Service - A Simple tutorial using Maven

Creating a Web Service using Axis2
A plain java class can be declared as a web service provided
1. It has a public method and the class has been defined in the services.xml file
2. The services.xml file should be placed under META-INF directory of the archive file

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Maven - Copying artifacts to specific folder

Above is the directory structure of web application generated using maven. Use maven-dependency-plugin for copying artifacts to desired folder under WEB-INF directory

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Dealing with cache issues in Jnlp applications

Even though I had disabled the temporary internet files setting in the java control panel as shown below, my jnlp application will still not pick up the latest changes. This is a common issue faced by java web start application developers and becomes quite annoying if changes are not getting reflected. javaws -uninstall is an useful command related to java web start which clears up the cache for you and you need not struggle with deleting the jar files in the %temp% or other folders.

Command for deleting Java Web Start Cache
javaws -uninstall

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