Ah! Good ol ACEGI. Or should I say the good old new ACEGI aka Spring Security. In one of my previous posts I blogged about configuring good ol ACEGI. Since I last looked at it ACEGI is now Spring Security. Configuration nightmare has been reduced greatly. Continue reading
Author Archives: Mathew
J2ME/JavaME Visited Again
It seems like an eternity since I last tried J2ME or JavaME as its known now. It was Sept 2003, when I was working at a product development company and was building a component using J2ME. I even managed to get an article published at http://my.advisor.com/articles.nsf/aid/12697. Continue reading
Android for Mobile Apps
Android is a complete open source stack that allows one to build mobile applications. The stack includes an operating system, middle-ware and common applications. It also provides us with a Java API to develop our own custom mobile applications. It does not discriminate between common applications vs custom applications. Everything that the common applications can do so can yours (making calls, sending SMS, etc.). Continue reading
Spring LDAP Template
Just like you have JDBC/Hibernate/iBatis templates in Spring, we also have an LDAPTemplate. You can download the spring LDAP library from http://springframework.org/ldap. The template pattern used here lets us avoid common pitfalls such as not cleaning up resources after using an API (in JDBC its the connection, statement and resultset). Why bother when the template can do this for you! Same holds true for LDAP queries. Continue reading
Maven Assemblies
Due to requests I received for source code for my open source file parser project (http://www.javaforge.com/project/2066), I had to quickly figure out a way to package a zip file that would contain Continue reading
Spring 2.5 Annotations
With release 2.5 of Spring we have a more complete support in Spring for annotation driven configuration. All of that XML configuration stuff can be set aside now. Release 2.0 had previously introduced some other annotations, @Transactional being my favourite. Continue reading
Ruby
Most IT managers know about the precious stone ruby and not the programming language Ruby. Its a sad state of affairs where career IT managers are so far disconnected from what is happening in the technology world. Not much you and I can do about that…so let me do some Ruby”ing” here. Continue reading
Subversion Basics
This blog details a quick step-by-step detail for creating a subversion repository. Continue reading
Enterprise Service Bus
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is an integration platform that facilitates the integration of various systems/applications using a common communication backbone and a set of available platform services. Continue reading
jQuery
Some weeks back I came across jQuery. Once in a while a library comes along that makes you say “wow”. To me jQuery is among those. jQuery is a JavaScript library that allows you to perform complicated (or sometimes not complicated but boring) JavaScript work in just a few lines. Continue reading