Title : Life Cycle Management of a Spring Bean
Author : Christy
Date : Fri Oct 26th, 2007

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 Appplication. There are various life-cycle interfaces and methods that will be called by the IOC Container.

Title : Using Enterprise Beans in Spring Environment
Author : Christy
Date : Wed Oct 24th, 2007

Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) can be used extensively in Spring's environment. In this article, we will know about the transparent support available in Spring for using the Stateless and the Stateful Session Beans in Spring.The pre-requisite for this article is some basic knowledge in Spring which can be got by reading the article in javabeat Introduction to Spring Web Framework.

Title : Accessing objects in JNDI using Spring
Author : Christy
Date : Mon Oct 22nd, 2007

Spring provides support to access objects from the JNDI Repository. This article will begin with the JNDI concepts along with a sample JNDI Application. Then it will proceed with the various core supporting classes available in Spring for JNDI Integration. Following that, practical samples would be given to make things clear.

Title : Integrating Spring and Groovy
Author : Christy
Date : Sat Oct 20th, 2007

Spring makes it easier to provide integration support for scripting languages. The currently supported scripting languages are Groovy, JRuby and BeanShell. However, this article concentrates only on Spring's support for the Groovy language. Plenty of code samples are given in each section for much clarity. The article assumes that the reader is comfortable in both Spring and Groovy concepts.

Title : J2ME User Interface
Author : Shenbagaraj
Date : Sat Oct 20th, 2007

User-interface requirements for small handheld devices are different from personal computers. Because comparatively the display size of handheld devices is smaller. That’s why, we cannot follow the personal computers user-interface programming guidelines for handheld devices. In J2ME,the CLDC itself does not define any GUI functionality. The official GUI classes for the J2ME are included in profiles such as the MIDP and are defined by the Java Community Process (JCP). The GUI classes in the MIDP are not based on the Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT). The limited CPU memory of handheld devices, cannot handle the AWT.

Title : Introduction to DOM4J
Author : SriHari
Date : Sat Oct 20th, 2007

Dom4j is an easy to use, open source library for working with XML, XPath and XSLT on the Java platform using the Java Collections Framework and with full support for DOM, SAX and JAXP.

Title : Java Management Extensions(JMX) support in Spring
Author : Christy
Date : Thu Oct 18th, 2007

This article would focus on how Spring provides support for integration with JMX. JMX stands for Java Management Extensions and it is an API from Sun which can be used to manage as well as monitor any kind of Java resource. This article doesn't aim to provide an in-depth coverage in JMX, however it provides a basic overview about JMX along with a sample Application. It includes a detailed step-by-step approach for integrating the JMX Environment into the Spring's Framework.

Title : Integrating Spring Framework with Hibernate ORM Framework
Author : Christy
Date : Tue Oct 16th, 2007

Hibernate is a powerful technology for persisting data in any kind of Application. Spring, on the other hand is a dependency injection framework that supports IOC. The beauty of Spring is that it can integrates well with most of the prevailing popular technologies. In this article, we will discuss on how it is possible to integrate Spring with Hibernate. This article assumes that the reader has a basic understanding in both Spring and Hibernate Frameworks.

Title : Apache POI - Reading Excel sheet using Java
Author : SriHari
Date : Tue Oct 16th, 2007

POI, Apache POI - Java API to access Microsoft format files. POI (Poor Obfuscation Implementation) API is a fantastic way for Java programmers to access Microsoft document formats. The POI project consists of APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java. In short, you can read and write MS Excel files using Java. An alternate way of generating a spreadsheet is via the Cocoon serializer.

Title : Creating Webservice using JBoss and Eclipse Europa
Author : SriHari
Date : Fri Oct 12th, 2007

This article will introduce you to JBoss Webservice (JAX-WS). Here you will be knowing how to use the annotations and create a web service to deploy in JBoss. Since JBoss comes with JAX-WS jars inbuilt, we will not be adding any jars in addition for this article. This article will also give you a example code and walk you through the code. This will also explain creation of dynamic web project (not elaborated) and configuration of JBoss server to it.

Title : Integrating Spring and JSF
Author : Raja
Date : Thu Oct 11th, 2007

This article provides an introduction on how Spring and Java Server Faces Technologies can be integrated. It covers the necessary details of both Spring and JSF Technology in the initial section in the context of Integration. Later on it moves towards the concept of Variable Resolvers which help in easing the integration between the two technologies. Then a full-fleged sample application is followed to get a greater feel and understanding of the integration.

Title : Regular Expressions in Java
Author : Christy
Date : Tue Oct 9th, 2007

Regular Expressions are basically patterns of characters which are used to perform certain useful operations on the given input. The operations include finding particular text, replacing the text with some other text, or validating the given text. For example, we can use Regular Expression to check whether the user input is valid for a field like Email Id or a telephone number.

Title : Introduction to Hibernate Caching
Author : VaniShanmugam
Date : Tue Oct 2nd, 2007

While working with Hibernate web applications we will face so many problems in its performance due to database traffic. That to when the database traffic is very heavy . Actually hibernate is well used just because of its high performance only. So some techniques are necessary to maintain its performance. Caching is the best technique to solve this problem. In this article we will discuss about, how we can improve the performance of Hibernate web applications using caching.