Kinda like iPAP

August 12, 2005 2:00 AM | posted to development | permalink | comments (2)

For the past three nights, I've been working on updating the image viewer for this site. Inspired by Rebel Pixel's iPAP , I'm trying to implement a Java-based one.

So far what I currently have is a hack (just make it to work regardless how ugly the code).

Some technical notes. As mentioned, it is a Java-based implementation where the goal is to make an easy way to set up a gallery site - image files are uploaded to a specific directory and the tool is suppose to work. I used the code for the image viewer that I have and made it more flexible and fail-safe (should work even without captions and index files): i.e. Spring 2005(old) and Spring 2005(new). The image captions are stored in an xml file, loaded into http session using JDOM.

For page layout, I used tables... :-). Just kidding.

More work. I'm also thinking of the possibility of creating a custom tag (you can create your own tags in jsp) for this image viewer so it would be easy for other Java developers to use. I'm just starting to get back into coding, building pieces to finally update this site both on server and client side.