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Hazelcast – open source clustering
I was crawling through few technical sites and came across this interesting framework – hazelcast. It looks quite good framework for developing cluster based application. The introductory video gives a good overview of framework and features listed in documentation has really created some curiosity.
I am planning to explore it. Has anyone used this framework, if yes please [...]
Apache CXF and validation
The ease of development provided by CXF for webservices has been key factor for its popularity amongst developers. Support for various WS-* standards and pluggable extensions are unique features of CXF.
Spring Webservices
After working for a long time (yeah more than a year) with Apache CXF, I feel CXF is better framework when compared with others. Just recently came across Spring – Webservices framework and thought of evaluating this one as well. The initial thought was the framework is provided by those who set standards, so it [...]
Exception Handling – AOP way
Exceptions, part of life. But if we can handle them in well defined manner, life becomes very easy. I couldn’t find any suitable framework in Java taking care of exceptions.
Webservice Session Maintenance – Apache CXF, Blaze DS, Spring and Flex
If Flex is dominting RIA world, CXF is dominating SOA world with its feature rich framework. CXF not only makes developers life easy by abstracting many complex task through a set of APIs but also adheres to WS-* standards without a need to having dependency on other frameworks.
XUL, SVG, SMIL, AML everything under one roof – AMPLE
You must have heard of XUL, language to define user interfaces using XML. Till now, XUL has been a properitory kind of implementation supported by Mozila browser. The advantage of using XUL is feature rich controls, which are not available in HTML. While Mozilla claims that it can be easily ported across various platforms but [...]
Mozilla Raindrop – Open Messaging
Over past few years, information sharing has grown by leaps and bounds. There are various means of communication and Internet has just added options to effectively transmit data over the wires. While sharing of information has become much easier, the fact that remain painful is “The Information is cluttered” across various sites. Be it email, [...]
Something about Oracle Application Server
Just recently, I came across a weird issue while running application on Oracle Application Server. The problem was faced by one of the projects in our department and was quite irritating one.
To tell you more about it, one of our application which quite huge and consists of many forms (entire application developed using Servlets, yes [...]
Curl – Yet Another RIA kid
Just recently came across one more RIA tool – Curl (sounds familiar, there is library in PHP with same name but it is used for different purpose). It seems it is competing with Flex – an already established brand in RIA world. A thought just came in my mind, can it really compete with tool [...]