While resolving the test problems in the last code, let's look at what we get by doing a
mvn jetty:run
The application has a header on top, a footer in the bottom, and a menu on the left hand side. This is in line with the Composite View pattern described in the Tiles tutorial:
. To recompose this layout, see src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/layouts/layouts.jspx. In there you find that what we want to work with is
I love Roo! Ben Alex and his team have made a great job making starting a Spring project a breeze. However, I've shied away from using Java for XHTML/JS/CSS since 2003, so while I know the underlying technologies with Roo (JPA, the databases, Spring, JUnit, Tomcat, etc etc) I don't know Apache Tiles at all. So I figured I'd like to learn it, at least until Roo 1.1 hits in a few weeks, when I'll probably want to learn GWT. 
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So, for learning this I'm going to make a project I've been planning ever since I released my awesome tuner for early music musicians: ...
From a concert September 11th in Esbjerg, Casper, Kristian and Thomas from Kind of Magic
The new AppleTV with iOS inside has me very excited as a developer and a media consumer. But, unfortunately, after the new AppleTV was announced, the old Apple TV is still on sale here in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. What gives, Apple? You neglect the most technophile part of Europe, both with the iPad and now with the AppleTV, without an obvious reason. I emailed support a few weeks ago, and they asked me to check back when the AppleTV started shipping. So now I guess ...
Eik Bank, who in 2007 bought the Danish part of Skandiabanken and thus got me as its customer, is in trouble. The share has fallen from ~86 DKK in august to ~30 DKK today, the board has resigned, the Færoe government is wondering if they can bail it out. Apparently the 9,1 million DKK guarantee the Danish government gave is worthless, the same article notes that the security behind the bank is stock in the bank and a failed construction company, so now ...
