Debugging Applet code using Eclipse

January 17, 2009 11 Comments

For last one month I involved in an applet development work. Its been hard to debug and fix issues in applet code as I have to use System.out.println() to see debugging information, it is very hard and time consuming, often I have to redeploy applet code when after adding a few more System.out.println. Felt my development time is wasted so started looking around solution to debug applet code. I came across an article in IBM site to debug java code remotely using eclipse. Read more of this post

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Connection Pool vs. Thread Pool Settings

December 28, 2008 26 Comments

Connection Pool and Thread Pool are used to improve performance of applications. Most of us use these poolings with default settings not caring about their configurations or finding optimal values. But the configuration also an important factor in performance tuning. In some sense the connection pool and the thread pool settings are dependent. We will discuss about the dependency in this post. Read more of this post

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Java EE – Performance Tuning Tips

December 28, 2008 8 Comments

Every application goes through some performance issues whether it is an intranet or internet product. As development progresses, more concentration goes to resolving requirement and technical complexities than performance issues. It is essential to introduce a phase in your development life cycle to tune the product performance before it goes to production. Read more of this post

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Difference between Thread.sleep() and Object.wait()

December 20, 2008 7 Comments

One of my favorite interview question is: What is the difference between sleep() and wait() method? The only commonality between these two method is both halts the current thread execution. The purpose and usage are entirely different. Read more of this post

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JSF onload action during restore and render response phase

November 10, 2008 14 Comments

When comparing JSF with action based frameworks like Struts, Webwork, etc. one of the major missing feature is onload action. Read more of this post

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Pure Java Print PDF Open Source API

November 3, 2008 69 Comments

PDF became widely used file format to exchange documents. There are a quite a few open source API available to create PDF document from Java application. Almost there is no good open source API available to view and print the PDF content from Java application. Fortunately sun released a open source API to fill this gap. Read more of this post

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Back to Basics: Statement vs. Prepared Statement

October 23, 2008 38 Comments

“What is the difference between Statement and Prepared Statement?” this is one of my favorite interview question. Most of the interviewee will say “Statement is not precompiled, prepared statements are precompiled, hence prepared statement will faster than statement”. My next question would be “What do you mean precompile”, the answer will be “the SQL gets compiled and reused”. My last question would be “In which layer the statement gets compiled? (like DB, JDBC, Java Apps.)”, most of them will answer JDBC. Since the answers are abstract, it could be interpreted in either way. Though the prepared statement concept are there for while very few provides in-depth answer. I did googling, the answers are scattered in various sites let me consolidate and give you a comprehensive view. Read more of this post

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Why JavaScript framework is important?

September 29, 2008 1 Comment

In the past few years AJAX, Web2.0 and RIA are a few of the most used jargon words in Web development world. How many Java web architect/developer really know how to develop these type of web applications?

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Arbitrary validation in JSF using validator attribute

August 12, 2008 5 Comments

Recently I was searching for an example about the arbitrary validation in JSF component, found very minimal examples in the web. Here I would like to share my knowledge on this.

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Why multiple inheritance is not allowed in Java

August 2, 2008 9 Comments

For long time I had a question “why Sun introduced Interface concept instead of C++ style of multiple inheritance?”. I did googling but many articles and forums talks about difference between abstract class and Interface not why Interface concept required in Java. After extensive search and analysis I came to know the reason behind the Interface concept in Java. Read more of this post

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Advantages of ThreadLocal in Java

July 26, 2008 5 Comments

ThreadLocal is one of the rarely used class in Java. I found it is one of the powerful class in Java on multi-threaded programming. In multi-threaded program generally we use session object to track the current users information.

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JSF default timezone and date pattern

July 8, 2008 13 Comments

By default JSF using GMT timezone to convert the date into display format. I did Google search about this issue, found no simple solution to solve this problem.

Here is a simple solution where you can provide your custom date time converter. I like this solution because it fixes GMT date/time issue across the application.

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JSF Best Practices

May 20, 2008 56 Comments

Here I am documenting some best practices can be followed during JSF project development.

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A critic view on JSF Framework

April 28, 2008 13 Comments

JSF is becoming more popular framework for user interface layer development, many architects and companies assuming that Struts is becoming outdated and JSF is catching up the market. I am not sure whether it is true at this point of time. However I would like express my critic on the advantages and disadvantages of JSF.

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Don’t let hype push you select wrong technologies

April 5, 2008 3 Comments

Most of you might agree with title of this blog. But how many of us or our managers/ architects follow on day to day basis? It is still a big question mark???

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