Recently I had to review a product which was being offered as a Virtual Appliance. This was the first time I had come across something like this. Pretty soon I was “googling” around to understand this better. Continue reading
Prior to JEE 5 , the JEE/J2EE platform did not go down that well across the developer community. As software evolves and new ideas flow in, it was only natural that JEE 6 would refine and become a better platform. Continue reading
I recently had the pleasure of using Axis2 on a Web Application. For reasons I cannot go into here, we were unable to use my original choice SpringWS. We were using Spring so it would have been a piece of cake to expose a document style web service using SpringWS. Continue reading
A reader posted a comment to one of my old blogs on XFire. That rekindled my interest so I checked the XFire web site only to be informed that XFire is now Apache CXF (version 2.2.3 at this moment in time). Continue reading
There has always been a need to support UI’s that constantly update themselves as new data becomes available on the server. The implementation for this falls into two general categories: either client side polling or server side push. Continue reading
Adobe Flex is a framework/sdk provided by Adobe that allows us to build rich internet applications (RIA) using Flash as the underlying technology. Continue reading
Organize Flex code into separate files, create custom components, create custom class and use validators to validate form elements. Continue reading
Facelets is a JSF framework to implement UI templating (like tiles, sitemesh). You can use Tiles to implement the templating portion but Facelets is built for JSF. Continue reading
REST (REpresentational State Transfer) is an architecture style that describes how to use HTTP to access web services. JAX-RS (JSR 311) is a Java API to support implementation/access of REST web services using Java. This style was first documented by Ron Fielding. Continue reading
In Part-II of this series on Spring Batch, I went through an example of reading from a flat file and persisting into the database. In this article I will go through the reverse. Read 200,000 rows from the database and export it into a comma separated flat file. Continue reading