My HR colleague called me this morning because she’s having problem with Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) Validation and Submission Java Application (JNLP) which can be found HERE.

The error window that she had was:

click Details to view the Exception:

To solve this issue, you need to do the following steps:

1. Remove the proxy settings (optional). There’s a chance that the your HTTP Proxy server is caching the outdated version of the applet
2. Clear your Java cache. Go to Control Panel – Java. click Settings, then click Delete Files.
3. Set JNLP File/MIME Association. In Java Cotrol Panel, click Advanced tab. Expand JNLP File/MIME Association. Select Promp User.

You should by now fixed the issue. When you launched the Java Application you should have the following prompt:

Click Run, and you are set to validate your Employment Income submission.

If it’s still not working, drop a comment and we’ll see what we can do ;).

As I previously speculated, being a pirate is much better than a landlubber.

I found out this amazing diagram which is showing that the experience as a honest, paying customer is much worse compared to those who downloaded pirated copy.

My recent project was a web project that connects the logistics needs of Richland’s customers with Richland’s logistics system. The project’s UI is using Ext.Net on top of ASP.NET MVC. It also uses Elmah for its logging purpose.

In the duration of the project, I did a lot of UI tests to ensure that the UI behave as I expected. It was then that I realize that I’ve been receiving many emails from Elmah reporting the exceptions that happened behind the screen.

After much digging in Ext.Net supports forum and did my own trials and errors, the following steps seem to work to rectify the issue.

1. Find <extnet /> tag in Web.config. Ensure that initScriptMode value is “Linked”
2. For any other aspx/ascx pages that have <ext:ResourceManager /> tag, make sure that its initScriptMode value is “Inline”

Still unable to get rid this particular Exception? Drop a comment please. 🙂