Category Archives: Enterprise Java

Java EE 6 Overview

By Dylan Barrett | February 1, 2011

Introduction
For the past year or so I have been working on a web development project using Java.  Like many Java projects, the project I was working on used 3rd party frameworks like Spring and Hibernate rather than utilizing the official Java EE stack.  Many developers have turned to these frameworks because the official Java EE [...]

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The Unstandard Tag Library: Using Constants Within JSPs

By Dylan Barrett | July 1, 2010

Introduction
The Unstandard Tag Library is a JSP tag library that was developed as part of the Jakarta Project. Its purpose is to provide a collection of useful tags that people have been requesting for JSTL. The library serves as a place to keep all of these tags [...]

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Java could be a pain to C# developers (Pass by Reference)

By seung | March 6, 2009

In C++ and C#, developers have freedom to modify variables by directly having access to memory location.
In C++,
#include <stdio.h>
void swapnum(int &i, int &j)
{
int temp = i;
i = j;
j = temp;
}

int main(void)
{
int a [...]

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Pass by reference

By seung | March 6, 2009

In C++ and C#, developers have freedom to modify variables by directly having access to memory location.
In C++,
#include <stdio.h>
void swapnum(int &i, int &j) {
int temp = i;
i = j;
j = temp;
}
int main(void) {
int a = 10;
int b = 20;
swapnum(a, b);
printf(“A is %d and B is %d\n”, a, b);
return 0;
}
In C#,
int a = 1;
modify(ref a); //now [...]

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Cache as a cross-cutting concern

By seung | December 11, 2008

I have been recently asked to look into the cache feature within Springmodule in Java community.
Since my current project utilizes spring and aop, I thought it would be a great idea to utilize AOP to cache data.
I actually wrote a prototype file and it was a very rudimentary yet working prototype.  However, I soon realized [...]

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Hibernate: Merge vs SaveOrUpdate

By seung | September 18, 2008

In my previous and current project, I have run into cases where I needed to save an object to database using hibernate, and from time to time, I run into some sort of Hibernate Session Exception.
 I did a bit of google search, and it turns out that when saving an object, I needed to make [...]

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Java: Too many choices?

By Kim Stevens | May 15, 2008

During my time with Tallan I have worked in both the MS camp and the Java camp. I prefer the Java side but I acknowledge that neither side is perfect. One of the main issues I see on the Java side is the huge variety choices that an architect has when starting a new [...]

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mySQL –i-am-a-dummy

By Makarand Bhandari | March 25, 2008

Not Java related, but since most apps deal with databases, this is something new about mySQL I learned today!
(from the mySQL manual)
For beginners, a useful startup option is –safe-updates (or –i-am-a-dummy, which has the same [...]

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EclEmma – Unit Test Coverage Analysis in Eclipse

By Andrew Nichols | March 24, 2008

I was recently looking for a unit test coverage analyzer such as JCoverage for a project I’m working on. After reviewing several tools I discovered an amazing free tool called EclEmma.
I’ve used JCoverage in the past and while it’s HTML based reports are useful for project managers they are less so for developers. [...]

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