For those who have just discovered HATS and are getting started with it, I thought I’d share some tips. These are my top 10 rules of thumb with HATS, and in no way is this all the tips I have. Be a lazy developer. Don’t try to transform every screen. Rather, use global rules and … Read more
This is a post I had made on the HATS newsgroups a couple of years ago. I’ve had to go back and search for it a couple of time recently, so I though I’d put it where I can most easily find it… on my own blog. HATS 7 does the field exit for you … Read more
And you just updated to 7.0.0.1. Yep, another fixpack. No new features, but a long list of bug fixes, most of which appear to be related to i18n or integration objects, or RCP. ©2016 Strongback Consulting
HATS comes bundled with several default templates. Only one or two could reasonably be used in a production environment as they are just downright hideous. A template consists of a JSP, images, and stylesheets. Rather than create a new template each time you do a project, you might want to save the project so that … Read more
HATS 6.0.5 is now out. This release supports version 6.1 of WebSphere, and addresses several minor issues. In particular portlet messaging was broken in prior release (i.e. click to action). If you plan on doing any Java 5 type coding (generics, auto-boxing, varargs, etc.), then this is your baby. WAS 6.1 is not fully JEE … Read more
In JavaScript and CSS its very helpful for an element to have an id attribute (not just a class attribute). For those of you not in the know, the id attribute should be unique across the entire HTML. Only one element should have value of that id. Class attributes allow HTML elements to be grouped … Read more