Using Java to solve IE8 Base64 Encoding Issue for Images

Recently I was tasked with writing a Java Servlet to consume images from a 3rd party REST Service and serve them up via JSP. Shortly after getting started, I realized that image was being transmitted as binary so I needed to find a way to display them on the page without having to store them […]

Fatal Error Compiling: tools.jar not found…

I’ve run into this issue several times now while working on recent Adobe CQ5 projects. The peculiar thing about this problem is that I was only noticing it when trying to do a Maven build in Eclipse. Typically when this error message is seen it means that the Java JDK is not being pointed to […]

Java Exception Line Number is “Unknown Source”

The topic of this Issue Blog is in regards to getting an “Unknown Source” in place of a line number in a Java exception stack trace when being compiled by Apache Ant. I’ve come across this issue several times in the past but have never really given it much thought because I can usually pin […]