Re: Newbie Coding Challenge

From:

Mark Space <markspace@sbc.global.net>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.help

Date:

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:25:49 GMT

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Roedy Green wrote:

On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:21:47 GMT, Mark Space
<markspace@sbc.global.net> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

Just to be clear, you're assuming a J2EE website? Any other frameworks?
No Struts, Hibernate, etc. I assume...

does not matter. In my case there is no server at all. I use static
macros. Your job it just to write one little method:

What's a macro? JSTL?

I don't mean to sound snarky or anything, but I think the original
question needed a lot of clarification. Based on what you have below,
anyone who would be challenged by the very short routine you are asking
for could not have possibly derived it from the requirements you posted.

Please take this as constructive criticism. I think you have a little
research to do before you have a good, constructive set of problems to
challenge newcomers.

/** decide which ad to use on a given web page.
     @param localHtmlFile a local file that will be uploaded to the
website which will have the ad inserted.
     @return 0 or 1 depending on which ad should be inserted.
   */
  int chooseAd ( File localHtmlFile )

You could also think of this as some server side code where the raw
text to the web page lives at localHtmlFile on the server.