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Ryan's Blog Design | Tuesday April 22, 2008 | By ryan

Patterns of Persistence, and article written by myself, Jim Majure and Travis Klotz has been published.  It can be found at the below links: Patterns of Persistence, Part 1 : Strategies and best practices for modern ORM tools Patterns of...

Mutant Mumblings article developerworks hibernate ibm jim ryan | Hibernate | Tuesday April 22, 2008 | By travisklotz

It has taken almost six months, but the article Jim , Ryan and myself wrote for IBM DeveloperWorks has just been published! Go check it out! Patterns of persistence, Part 1: Strategies and best practices for modern ORM tools Patterns of...

Sud's Blog observer patterns | Java | Tuesday April 15, 2008 | By sudhakar

If you've googled Design Patterns in general you've probably stumbled across many good sites ( www.sourcemaking.com being one of my favorites). This blog post is about how I used a specific design pattern (Observer in this case) to solve a specific problem....

Mutant Mumblings annotations custom delete eric hibernate sql | Hibernate | Thursday April 10, 2008 | By travisklotz

I was talking to my buddy Eric the other day and he told me about a business logic problem he had been having and the very elegant solution he came up with using Hibernate. The problem was so common and the solution so simple (and now that I know it, so...

Sud's Blog eclipse rcp | Java | Monday March 31, 2008 | By sudhakar

If you are developing plugins using Eclipse PDE, here's an issue you might run into in Eclipse 3.2 (haven't confirmed on 3.3.x yet) when referencing classes in plugins listed in the dependencies tab of MANIFEST.MF " Access restriction : The type...

Ryan's Blog Design | Friday March 21, 2008 | By ryan

In a previous post I talked about some of the difficulties I had with JiBX.  I was using JiBX to map to the vendor neutral Acord Life Insurance schemas.  One recurring theme in the Acord schemas is repeating elements without a wrapping tag: ...

Ryan's Blog Programming | Monday February 18, 2008 | By ryan

Overview  JiBX is a binding framework from XML to Java Objects and back.  JiBX could be used in place of frameworks like XMLBeans, Castor or just plain JDOM parsing.  JiBX works through a JiBX binding file.  It essentially connects a...

Ying code flash lzx openlaszlo php shoutbox source | Rich Internet application | Wednesday February 13, 2008 | By ying

here's my shoutBox written in openLaszlo frontend and PHP backend. Try closing the shoutBox, it is animated :) type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> Click here if you do not see the flash embeded So the idea of writing this simple application is...

Paul hibernate | Java | Tuesday February 05, 2008 | By paul

Implicate polymorphism in hibernate is the ability to query on a superclass or interface and return a collection that is a mix of all of the sub classes or implementations that meet those criteria from several tables. For example, lets say you have the...

Sud's Blog getting started | General | Tuesday January 22, 2008 | By sudhakar

So today was my first day at Source Allies and I thought I'd kick of my blogging with what else but "My First Day at Work" post. My morning commute to work was probably the most focussed driving I've ever done. The first thing I probably need to do is...

Ying java nullpointer tostring | Java | Tuesday December 04, 2007 | By ying

While the project I'm working on is ready for production, I've gotten a few bug reports from the end users. One of them comes from a print page of an event schedule. Here's the data model Event has many Timeslots which has many Appointments, Timeslots...

Jim Majure's Blog crud mvc spring | Java | Sunday November 18, 2007 | By jim

This blog describes the approach that I took in a recent project to implement simple CRUD functionality using Spring MVC. I had the following goals for this project: Allow basic CRUD functionality for a set of Hibernate-persisted objects. Maintain a...

Matt's Blog 2.0 activemq amq driven endpoints esb java jms message mule namespaces oss pojos spring | Java | Monday October 22, 2007 | By mattvincent

Embedded Mule, ActiveMQ & Spring Overview  This post illustrates how to setup an open source Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), messaging broker and JMS 1.1 provider using Spring integration.   After spending some time wiring up Mule 1.4.3 and...

Ying clear-left css ui ui-design web-design workaround | UI Design | Thursday October 18, 2007 | By ying

You may have run into this problem, you may have not. But I found an acceptable workaround to this particular problem. Here’s the scenario. So I have a two column layout where my navigation list (red) is floated to the left and my main content is...

Ying css framework java jsf single-application-multiple-clients table ui | UI Design | Thursday October 18, 2007 | By ying

Tables are very important parts of the web interface. They are (hopefully) used for tabular data. It is one of the oldest and most basic HTML presentation tag but in order for it to smoothly fit into the new CSS age, we need to look at the most practical way...

Paul Java | Monday October 15, 2007 | By paul

Last week I read an article by Allen Holub called "Why getter and setter methods are evil" (http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2003/jw-0905-toolbox.html) It basically states that by creating getters and setters in objects you are exposing the inner...

Ryan's Blog Programming | Monday October 15, 2007 | By ryan

This week I setup continuous builds and manual click-to-build sort of process using Luntbuild and Ant.  I was really surprised at how easy it is to  use and maintain.  Then I began wondering why these automated build systems aren't more...

Mutant Mumblings acegi ldap spring windows | Acegi | Tuesday October 09, 2007 | By travisklotz

After using Acegi for the last year or so, i have needed to integrate a half dozen applications with Microsoft Active Directory. Doing this the first time was fairly painful because I couldn't find any good examples of what the configuration should really...

Mutant Mumblings acegi facelets jsf | JSF | Monday October 08, 2007 | By travisklotz

A few months ago I was having a hard time getting Facelets and Acegi working properly together. In the past I had gotten JSF+JSP to work with acegi following a great article over at the MyFaces Wiki , but replacing JSP with Facelets causes a few new issues...

Ryan's Blog Programming | Thursday October 04, 2007 | By ryan

In the Pragmatic Programmer, Andy and Dave suggest learning a new programming language every year.  I definitely agree with this!  I think that it is very important for developers not to be stuck with just one language and another way to keep...

Ying assocations eclipse file myeclipse tips | General | Wednesday October 03, 2007 | By ying

In order to clean up the project view in Eclipse, you can hide the files you don't need. First of all, make sure you're in the Java Perspective (Window ? Open Perspective). Then click the little (down) arrow in the top right corner of the Package Explorer...

Ying General | Thursday September 20, 2007 | By ying

Travis just sent me this cutest Firefox poster!! Everyone should get one. I was very enraged by the JSF tag h:selectOneRadio Because it renders the radio buttons with the TABLE tag @_@ instead of something CSS friendly like list or div tags. ...

Jim Majure's Blog Java | Thursday September 13, 2007 | By jim

As a consultant working on J2EE applications, it never ceases to amaze me how poorly exception handling is done in mission critical applications. It seems that often the first thing that I do when I begin working on an application in a new engagement is to...

Mutant Mumblings java spring | Spring | Thursday August 30, 2007 | By travisklotz

The Problem When building CRUD screens for hibernate objects you end up building and configuring many different application layers for each and every one of your CRUD objects.  For example I usually end up needing the following objects when...