You have included a dependency on the SLF4J API, which is what you use in your application for logging, but you must also include an implementation that does the real logging work. For example to log through Log4J you would add this dependency: <dependency> <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId> <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId> <version>1.5.2</version> </dependency> The recommended implementation would be logback-classic, which … Read more
I was looking to do something similar and ended up here (I guess your “as many keywords as possible” thing worked). Here’s what I came up with that worked for me. (geometry and tile adjusted for your needs) montage -border 0 -geometry 660x -tile 3×3 tile* final.jpg The files get added to the tiles horizontally, … Read more
Servlet 3.0 which Tomcat 7 supports includes the ability to package jsps into a jar. You need to: place your jsps in META-INF/resources directory of your jar optionally include a web-fragment.xml in the META-INF directory of your jar place the jar in WEB-INF/lib directory of your war You should then be able to reference your … Read more
A few arguments for Velocity (I haven’t used Freemarker): Potential to re-use templates outside of a web context, such as in sending emails Velocity’s template language syntax is far simpler than JSP EL or tag libraries Strict separation of view logic from any other sort of logic – no possible option to drop down to … Read more
This type of layout is called Masonry layout. Masonry is another grid layout but it will fill out the whitespace caused by the difference height of elements. jQuery Masonry is one of jQuery plugin to create masonry layout. Alternatively, you can use CSS3 columns. But for now jQuery based plugin is the best choice since … Read more