Summary Proxies are an important piece in the J2EE puzzle. Since it offers a non-intrusive an more transparent way of weaving in advice/interceptors. However,… [read]

check out this link . To start with, it is a good read for persons working on Supply chain domain. Presents different traditional and upcoming techniques.… [read]

Once I had developed a web service interface with axis, for the client was very simple,when I deployed my application , I came into an idea ,why not it had so much directory and so many jar's,… [read]

Just visited Google Groups Beta Advanced Search. I'm happy to find that the date based search is back! (see) [read]

Summary Proxies are an important piece in the J2EE puzzle. Since it offers a non-intrusive an more transparent way of weaving in advice/interceptors. However,… [read]

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Mike Taulty wrote a nice software to use Microsoft Smartphone as a PowerPoint remote controller through Bluetooth connection. He tested on E200 and C500 (Europe).… [read]

Poor Pat asked Mark Roth of Sun to not jump in a take peoples syntax. The problem is that once JSP (via JSTL) says "${foo} will resolve to X". Other frameworks don't get a look in.… [read]

The Apache DB group voted on a new JDO proposal. The new proposal spells out a place for some serious JDO work to happen. It has been brought together with leaders in the Apache, other open source,… [read]

I got VoIP setup this evening with Vonage. I've only had it for an hour or two, but my initial impression reminds me of what Paul Graham said about the iPod: I just got an iPod, and it's not just... [read]

CiteULike is like del.icio.us for for academic papers. It's almost (well, not really) enough to make me wish I was a grad student again.… [read]

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Chat about all things JXTA 2.3.2! [read]

Yeah, I know it is a point release, but I am glad that Maven 1.0.2 is released as 1.0.… [read]

While I'm in bile-laden mood (see previous entry), here are two things I think were horribly mis-designed in the Java I/O API. more... [read]

It’s cold, and no doubt it’s going to get colder. Some of my colleagues are currently enjoying temperatures of -35°C, and will no doubt pick up the odd cold along the way.… [read]

I'm not sure how it happened but I ended up with a spfile.ora in my $ORACLE_HOME/dbs directory (I had deleted it earlier).… [read]

A friend (fiend?) pointed out that BEA's new Weblogic 9.0 (alias "Diablo") has a new mascot/logo. OMGWTF!… [read]

A little while ago I‘ve added a page to the Eclipse CDT wiki about how to integrate the Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 into Eclipse 3.0 M8.… [read]

When a user submits data to a portlet (whether in a form, or parameters added to the end of an HTTP request), these values are normally passed to the target action method. [read]

Reliance Infocomm has come up with a J2ME app that coverts text to speech for the visually impaired to be able to use a cell phone.… [read]

More stumbling into interesting stuff when trying to find something unrelated: a bunch of papers from IBM Almaden Research Center, e.g.… [read]

Humanity will survive information deluge, says our man in Colombo. [read]

Although developers generally don't deal with the low level details of how a JDBC driver is implemented, many times they unkowingly suffer from the weaknesses in the design of JDBC. Read on.… [read]

The TIOBE Programming Community index attempts to give an indication of the popularity of programming languages. They say Java is second to C, and C# is 10th. What do you think?… [read]

It seams like TheServerSide.com had a problem but recovered already. It is the longest stack trace I have ever seen in a webpage. It is far too long and I copied it,… [read]

I just uploaded a very crude installer for Norrell 0.1.0 - the wee podcasting client I've been tinkering on for the past few weeks,… [read]

It's been a while since I've posted, yet it seems I've been getting spammed like crazy... Thanks for all of the kind offers for penis enlargements, viagra, and cialis, but no thanks, I'm doing fine.… [read]

Replete with devil horn headgear and specially marked boxes of red-hot candies, Alfred Chuang, CEO of BEA announces Weblogic Server 9.0 code named "Diablo".… [read]

Everything one should know about rainbows. [read]

I noticed at the end of an email to local mailing list the a signature that read Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. I got a good chuckle out of that.… [read]

I discovered peer2mail last night and found it quite amusing. It's windows only, so I can't run it. But, I do think the idea is nice. You can make use of your free google hard drive space,… [read]

Flex, Laszlo, Java Web Start, JSF, Tapestry: What's a poor programmer to do? [read]

A bit of a random post this - I was hunting for a uriToFilename method, couldn’t find one locally (though I know I’ve been here before) so Googled. Most promising was on Piotr Kaminski’s site.… [read]

Rather than always having my tests go to a database, I have my DAOs all mocked up. For most of my tests, I want to use this mock layer (much faster). For some cases I want to use the full layer (e.g.… [read]

I recently noticed that a lot of problems coming up in the Hibernate Forum can often be solved with the same things. Often if your domain objects and your datamodel don’t want to fit together,… [read]

JavaRanch is giving away four enrollments in online Java training, plus four copies of a great book on Network Programming from O'Reilly! Also,… [read]

There's a chat in a few hours on the future of the J2EE Web Tier. I'll be sitting in and hoping to learn something.… [read]

Whizlabs (http://www.whizlabs.com/) is well known in the Java world as one of the top providers of exam simulators for various Java certifications.… [read]

The Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD) exam is very popular today as its content is perhaps most relevant to what J2EE developer actually work on day in day out. Servlets,… [read]

Mark Roth recently asked for feedback on the Faces 1.2 and JSP 2.1 specs (via a chat mid-work day, unfortunately). My response is this: Mark,… [read]

I am travelling with with my wife and my one year old son in Vietnam for a couple of months. It's been a pretty hectic fall so I am looking forward resting my mind for a while.… [read]

Cayenne Object Relational Mapping final 1.1 release is available for download. This release offers a whole set of new features and enhancements.… [read]

Oracle is pleased to announce the availability of a developer preview download of the next generation of Oracle JDeveloper – Oracle JDeveloper 10g (10.1.3).… [read]

Transactions 2.0 is a transaction processing tool for Java enterprise integration projects where distributed data quality and integrity is absolutely essential. Compared to previous releases,… [read]

Dotting i's, crossing t's, hoping to keep the lawyers away [read]

I've been impressed with TilesTool, it comes in the Velocity Tools package. It runs Velocity views through the struts MVC machine for processing reusable "subviews". However,… [read]

I learniing JOSSO, JiveSoftware.org Login Mechanism, and of course my own project. What must we do to make a better login that support a good login mechanism? JAAS?… [read]

How many Java-related books do you plan to purchase in 2005? Vote in the survey at the right. Do you still buy paper books or have you switched to e-books? Click to read this article! [read]

Managing change and versioning of web services can be hard. Although based on loose coupling and extensibility concepts, when it comes to change,… [read]

Joshua discusses the benefits of gradual APIs and designs a simple XML language for Swing layout. [read]

Text message and podcast annotation of artwerks at Maymount Manhattan College, here is their blog: Art Mobs. [read]

Ceryle is a free tool to help you get organized. If you use a lot of post it notes, are a writer, journalist, researcher, student, or anyone compiling a lot of information for a project,… [read]

Ok, so the Maven 1.0.2 release is out, most importantly fixing the property inheritence regression that found its way into Maven 1.0.1 (when you roll up 4 months of bugfixes in one release,… [read]

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of Maven 1.0.2. http://maven.apache.org/start/download.html This release contains further bugfixes since the Maven 1.0 release.… [read]

Planning to incorporate this in public interface WorkFlowEntity { public void setDescription(String description); public String getDescription(); public void setName(String… [read]

While coming back from my friend Manish Bellani's wedding in Ahmedabad,… [read]

My friend mailed me link to this article which gives some valid points about software architecture and software architect's role.… [read]

Announced last week, the CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 3.1 provides Web services capabilities, while the CICS Transaction Gateway 6.0 provides J2EE (Java 2 Platform,… [read]

Oracle is using the Xserve RAID in its own technology department to store e-mail, voice mail and calendar information.… [read]

Ever since I switched to Firefox, I had a lot of trouble with Slashdot. It simply wouldn't render right. Refreshing the page sometimes helps, but other times won't. What's going on?… [read]

It was announced today that the Presidency of the United States will be outsourced to India during 2005. United States Trade Representative, Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick,… [read]

Jini Community Meeting Actually, I started at the Kickstart session on the Monday before. This was a high level view of Jini and Javaspaces.… [read]

The Jakarta Slide development team has announced the release of version 2.1 R.C.1."This is the first release candidate for Slide 2.1. It is compatible to the previous 2.0 release,… [read]

The Jakarta Portals development team has announced the release of version 2.0 Milestone release 1 of Jetspeed. "This is our first milestone release and brings Jetspeed closer to a final 2.… [read]

The Jakarta Axis C++ development team has announced the release of version 1.4 Alpha. New features include, SSL implementation, cookie based session support for the client side,… [read]

The Java, single-sign-on project, JOSSO has announced the release of version 1.1.1. In addition to some bugfixes the release enhancements include,… [read]

Cedric Beust has announced the release of version 2.0 of TestNG. "There is only one new feature in this release, but it's quite a big one: JDK 1.4 support.… [read]

Jarnal, a java based notetaking/sketching applications for tablet PCs, has released version 2.82. "Multi-page views are now fully editable,… [read]

Announcing the launch of Indian operations of InMage, a US-based cost effective data continuity company, Kumar Malavalli, its Co-founder said the firm had received 7.3 million dollar venture capital.… [read]

I have just added new FAQ into my conceptoriented.com portal, which answers simple questions concerning the Concept-Oriented Query Language (CoQL).… [read]

Since the recent integration of Feedster results into the conversation engine, I stopped coding for a bit and while doing other stuff I've been thinking of how to make it more scalable,… [read]

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Putting the finishing touches on my slides and demos for my OpenWorld talk tomorrow, I couldn't help but notice that the final 1.0 version of Mozilla Thunderbird is now available. Enjoy. [read]

I was going to try the hbm2java task which is part of the Hibernate Extensions API, but I can't access Sourceforge. :( On another note,… [read]

Accoona is the new search engine which competes with Google and uses AI is into market. The investors include China's state information agency.… [read]

During my current project, i encountered jWebUnit, a unittesting framework based on jUnit and HttpUnit. Old news for some, new for me. Since we already had some posts on jUnit and HttpUnit,… [read]

Over the weekend, my brother asked me why the Mona Lisa is so famous. The only 5 second answer I could give him was that she's famous for being famous.… [read]

Gmail Todo Your todo list, in gmail XML.com: Introducing del.icio.… [read]

A recent study I read suggested that Enterprise businesses favor Java, whereas smaller businesses favor .NET. Why is is there a company size divide on this? And why do smaller companies prefer .NET?… [read]

Recently my Dad and I went to New Delhi and Rajasthan for a week on holiday. we went to all the usual tourist spots - the Taj, jaipur, Jodphur, and so forth. It made a change from life in Bangalore... [read]

Rich Schwerin blogs about Thomas Kurian's technical overview of Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 at Oracle OpenWorld today.… [read]