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Design Patterns - Building blocks for your application

June 10th, 2007 / 3 Comments »

What is a pattern?
A pattern in short is a time and tested answer to a specific problem. When the design phase for an application starts a group of analysts sit with the developers to discuss about the requirements and come out with a proposal for a design.
The design thus formed is always taken care for […]

The Struts Framework - Why choose it?

June 3rd, 2007 / 13 Comments »

Struts is a J2EE web application framework created and maintained by Apache Software Foundation Group (ASF). It is a controller framework based on the Front Controller pattern and used to create an MVC (Model View Controller) architecture.
What is a Front Controller Pattern?
A Front controller pattern follows the rule of having a single entity controlling […]

Looping through Collections is fun in Java 5

May 16th, 2007 / 8 Comments »

Edit: This post was earlier titled “Looping through Collections is fun in Java 6” which has now been renamed to “Looping through Collections is fun in Java 5” due to the accidental discrepancy of mentioning the feature belonging to Java 6. The mistake is rectified. Thanks for the feedback to all.
The traditional looping for construct […]

Why Sybase is similar to Microsoft’s SQL Server

May 13th, 2007 / 1 Comment »

Recently I got the opportunity to have a look at the Sybase DBMS and while reading through some of the material on it I had this thing in my mind constantly picking up the tit-bits from where I had left Microsoft’s SQL Server a few months back. It seemed so similar.
Other Sybase beginners might have […]

Developers Dilemma - pride or prestige

May 12th, 2007 / 2 Comments »

Developers vs Managers
Being just a developer, you might sometimes feel that it does not give you good returns in terms of monetary or maturity aspects in the IT industry but being a project manager definitely gives you more power, more prestige, better opportunities and better experience. But it might not always be true that people […]

Ajax Exposed - Myth and Reality

April 29th, 2007 / 3 Comments »

Ajax, from its onset, has seen many debates and discussions which not only have helped it flourish even more in its overall popularity but also have made it gain world wide acceptance and more standardized approach. However, there are still a lot of myths associated with Ajax and many of them have come out through […]

Getting started with IoC - A simplified tutorial

April 26th, 2007 / 2 Comments »

I had mentioned about Inversion of Control (IoC) in my earlier post Inversion of Control - for easy integration. In this post I will show you how you can actually make your integration easy with implementation of a mini application sample based on IoC.
Objective
The main objective of this mini tutorial is to highlight the implementation […]