note to self (eclipse bug)

If you add a file to the project folder outside the Eclipse IDE, that file will not be seen inside the IDE until that particular project is refreshed :|

Java operators game

Given the following code:
   int var = 2;
   var+= 2.5;
   System.out.println("var="+var);
the result will be var=4
Now we change that to
   int var = 2;
   var=var + 2.5;
   System.out.println("var="+var);
The result should be the same at first sight but it's not. Compound operators do implicit casting whereas the line "var=var + 2.5;" does not. Explicit casting is required in this situation.
       Have a nice day!

Spring & XML quickie

something nasty occured today as i tried to pass an attribute from a spring controller to a JSP-page view. That attribute is an XML string of the form "<root><item1>...</item1><item2>...</item2>...</root>", written without newlines. all fine and dandy so far, but when i tried to obtain the attribute in my jsp using ${var}, all i got was the item values without any of the tags... to fix this i had to rewrite the code in the jsp to  <% String str = request.getAttribute("var").toString %> . I'm curious why the jsp has interpreted the xml string like that