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Introduction to Spring IDE 2.0

September 21 2007

Tushar Joshi has authored an article titled “Introduction to Spring IDE 2.0″. The article describes the required steps and dependencies to install Spring IDE and demos some basic features of version 2.0. Tushar concludes his article by stating that: “Spring IDE provides features like Spring Explorer, Beans Cross Reference, Graph View… read more

Introduction to Google Guice

August 05 2007

Google Guice is a Dependency Injection Framework that can be used by Applications where Relationship/Dependency between Business Objects have to be maintained manually in the Application code. Since Guice support Java 5.0, it takes the benefit of Generics and Annotations thereby making the code type-safe. This article gives good introduction… read more

Eclipse Plugin Architecture

August 02 2007

Eclipse is an extensible platform for building IDEs.Tool builders contribute to the Eclipse platform by wrapping their tools in pluggable components, called Eclipse plug-ins, which conform to Eclipse’s plug-in contract. The basic mechanism of extensibility in Eclipse is that new plug-ins can add new processing elements to existing plug-ins. And… read more

Introduction to Google Guice

July 10 2007

Guice wholly embraces annotations and generics, thereby enabling you to wire together and test objects with less effort than ever before. Annotations finally free you from error-prone, refactoring-adverse string identifiers. Guice injects constructors, fields and methods (any methods with any number of arguments, not just setters). Guice includes advanced features such… read more

Introduction to Ajax4Jsf

June 27 2007

Red Hat and Exadel announced an exciting strategic partnership. Exadel is contributing their commercial products, RichFaces and Exadel Studio Pro, to open source at jboss.org. The Ajax4jsf project has also moved to jboss.org as JBoss Ajax4jsf. The Ajax4jsf framework is implemented using a component library that adds AJAX capability to… read more

Streaming API for XML

June 12 2007

The Streaming API for XML (StAX) is a groundbreaking new Java API for parsing and writing XML easily and efficiently.StAX provides is the latest API in the JAXP family, and provides an alternative to SAX, DOM, TrAX, and DOM for developers looking to do high-performance stream filtering, processing, and modification,… read more

Scripting Language for the Java Platform

June 07 2007

Java 6 provides the Common Scripting Language Framework for integrating various Scripting Languages into the Java Platform. Most of the popular Scripting Languages like Java Script, PHP Script, Bean Shell Script and PNuts Script etc., can be seamlessly integrated with the Java Platform. Support for Intercommunication between Scripting Languages and… read more

Struts 2.0 Validations using Annotations

May 30 2007

How easy it was to get fairly complex server side validation working with Struts 2 by just using annotations. No XML whatsoever. Struts 2.0 comes with new set of Robust Validation Features. Most of the common Validation Activities related to a Web Application are taken care by the Framework itself… read more

Interceptors in Hibernate

May 14 2007

An interceptor can be used to intercept the existing business functionality to provide extensible or add-on features. They provide pluggable architecture and are generally callback methods that will be called by the framework in response to a particular set of events/actions if properly registered and configured. They follow the standard… read more

Does JavaFX Spell The End Of AJAX?

May 09 2007

“Internetnews is reporting on Sun’s introduction of JavaFX at JavaOne today. Looks like a combination Applet, Flash, Javascript, and AJAX with a friendly programming interface. Does this really spell the end of AJAX? I sincerely hope so. Nothing built on Javascript will ever achieve the security, cross-platform reliability, and programmatic… read more

EJB 3.0 and WebServices

May 01 2007

JSR-181, which is the “Web Services Metadata for the Java Platform”, simplifies the development of Web-Services in the Java/J2EE environment. Ordinary Java classes can be turned immediately into Web-Services by applying Web-Services specific meta-data (in the form of annotations) to the code. No need for the application developers to… read more

Restlet - Lightweight REST framework for Java

April 30 2007

Restlet is a lightweight REST framework for Java. It helps you build Web applications that blur the lines between Web sites and Web services by embracing REST, the architectural style of the Web. As every major REST concept has a corresponding Java class, the mental mapping between your RESTful Web… read more

Spring Web Flow 1.0.3 Released

April 30 2007

The Spring Web Flow 1.0.3 has been released. This is a bugfix release addressing four issues in the Java Server Faces (JSF) and Portlet integration reported against the 1.0.2 release. Work on Spring Web Flow 1.1 has begun with the first milestone release scheduled for JavaOne. Spring Web Flow is… read more

Building JSF application with Exadel

April 23 2007

Red Hat and Exadel Partner to Bring Rich Developer Tools to Red Hat’s JBoss Platform Red Hat the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, and Exadel, the leader in providing rich application components for creating a new generation of enterprise solutions, announced a strategic partnership that will add mature, Eclipse-based… read more

Portlet MVC Framework in Spring 2.0

March 29 2007

Spring 2.0 introduces Portlet MVC Framework. For more details about the portlet framework read the sun’s documentation. The Portlet MVC framework is a mirror image of the Web MVC framework. The main way in which portlet workflow differs from servlet workflow is that the request to the portlet can have two… read more