Archive | October 26th, 2007

Life Cycle Management of a Spring Bean

October 26, 2007

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1) Introduction This article would brief about how a Spring Bean is managed in IOC (Inversion of Control) Container. Spring Beans exist within the Container as long as they are needed by the Application. There are various life-cycle interfaces and methods that will be called by the IOC Container. The pre-requisite for this article is [...]

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Knowing about your Database

October 26, 2007

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We use the Jdbc APIs for accessing the data from the database system. However, the different databases from different vendors will vary a lot in their underlying model and functionalities. For example, a feature supported in one database might not be supported in another database. So, even before working with a database, it is important [...]

Customizing Dragging and Dropping for Swing Components

October 26, 2007

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Swing’s Drop and Drop API can be used for customizing Drag and Drop support. For most of the commonly used components like Text Components, Color Chooser, File Chooser etc, the dropping support is enabled by default. We have to explicitly enable the dragging support by calling the setDragEnabled() method. Before getting into customizing them, let [...]

Locking Files using Java

October 26, 2007

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File Locking can be achieved in java by making use of the New I/O API (nio). Before the advent of New I/O API, there was no direct support in Java for locking a file. It is important to understand that File locking is hugely dependent on the native operating system on which the program is [...]