Hibernate has become the de-facto ORM (Object Relational Mapping) framework for most of the organizations today. It provides a very simple framework to overcome the cumbersome techniques involved with core JDBC implementations. Whenever there is a project based on database intrinsic activities it is advisable to use Hibernate than do JDBC coding. It saves a [...]
The debate on desktop applications dying under the limelight of web applications is on the rise these days. But the thing that actually means when they talk about the death of desktop apps and rise of web desktop apps is all about the end users’ perspective. The web has evolved into a whole new enterprise [...]
The purpose of annotations have been well put forward with the recent upgradation of EJB to EJB 3.0 and also in the web services field by JAX-WS. Annotations help in reducing the learning curve associated with these specifications by avoiding the need to learn the deployment descriptors which are necessary to properly deploy an EJB [...]
I had recently tried some programming in JDK 1.6 which falls in the league of Java 5. The Eclipse environment started behaving strange in someway which I had not expected. The code which was irritating me was the one which included a collection object
List list = new ArrayList();
list.add("someString");
The Eclipse IDE flashed a warning beneath the [...]
If you have worked in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), you might have noticed that the nested styles take precedence over the global ones. For Example, consider the following,
.box{
width:100px;
height:100px;
background:silver;
border:1px solid black;
}
And I use the above style in my page as follows,
I have been keeping a track of JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) versus XML for the past couple of months when AJAX came up as a big bang approach. Arun Gupta also recounts his similar experience with the XML JSON debate and concludes,
XML is document-oriented and JSON is data-oriented. So if you want to deal [...]
It is always beneficial to have a development and a deployment structure when building an application. It is a perfect way to build a web application. First of all let’s see what is the difference between them.
Development Structure
It is the structure or hierarchy of files that you make in order to make a separation of [...]
LinkedIn is a a new growing community which I came across a few days ago. Quickly I got registered in it and since then it is a fun routine and enlightening one to visit my LinkedIn account and getting linked to people across the globe sharing the same interests as mine or working in the [...]
