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Category Archives: Java
Node.js From the Enterprise Java Perspective
Node.js currently is getting much attention because it uses a concurrency model that shows great promise in scalability: event-driven asynchronous Input/Output. This model can handle thousands of concurrent user-requests and do that with a tiny memory footprint, things that cannot … Continue reading
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A Challenging but Rewarding Experience with SCWCD
Those who have completed the SCJP exam would recall some of the challenges faced while tackling weird looking code problems aimed at thoroughly testing your understanding of the Java language. While the SCWCD exam has minimal code related questions, which … Continue reading
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New Release – Shine Reference Project
We have a new release of the GWT/Spring Shine Reference project out here (ver 0.3), which is an important improvement on the previous releases. Now includes proper Data Layer : using Spring 2.5 annotations, Hibernate 3.2 and integrated HSQLDB runtime … Continue reading
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Eclipse Ganymede…
This was just too painful! Unfortunately I would have to recommend to people to stay away from Ganymede if you use Subversion for version control until they sort out connectors, update sites etc. After installing on 4 machines (3 macs, … Continue reading
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Clearing the SCJP Hurdle
Having accomplished one of my main short term goals in life, I thought I would reflect on the recent events that earned me my first certification outside of Uni. You might be thinking, whats the big deal about answering a … Continue reading
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The Three Amigos – Maven, Spring and GWT
Once in a while new technologies mature and coalesce together to provide a new and viable platform that radically change the traditional development landscape. In recent years Ruby on Rails has been the poster child of all that is new … Continue reading
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Spring Batch gets an airing (or flaming?)
An article on The Server Side recently started off some discussion on the Spring Batch framework. Joseph Ottinger implied that there weren’t too many options for batch processing in Java (which there aren’t) which seemed to raise the hackles of … Continue reading
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Is the Java application server dead ?
First came light-weight containers such as Spring which provide some of the useful features of application servers, but with less constraints over both design and deployment. Now we have Web Beans: A Web Bean does not have to be an … Continue reading
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Has Rails lost its shine?
Last month I attended a seminar about Virtual Worlds and in particular Second Life, during which it was suggested that Second Life had been through the hype stage, passed over the bell curve of growth and the “cool” factor, and … Continue reading
Posted in Java, Ruby
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How to Close JDBC Resources Properly – Every Time
In a Java program, we sometimes need to make sure we close a resource after we’ve finished using it. Common examples are files, Hibernate Sessions, JDBC Connections, Statements and ResultSets. The database-related ones are particular important – if we don’t … Continue reading
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