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Ajax Functionality in a Custom JavaServer Faces Component

2007-06-12T05:45:00.000-07:00

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) is a technique for making the user interfaces (UI) of web applications more responsive and interactive. Because of its flexible and pluggable UI component model, JavaServer Faces technology is the perfect framework to use when adding Ajax functionality to your applications. With the DOJO JavaScript toolkit,

Now a New TV online.... Nautanki.tv

2007-05-13T00:06:00.000-07:00

JSF(Java Server Faces) Framework - Introduction

2007-04-25T07:04:00.000-07:00

Java Server Faces(JSF) - Overview JavaServer Faces is based on Specification Request JSR 127 released on 2004. Main purpose of it is to create a collection of APIs for the UI components managing their state together with event handling and validation. Custom tags allow it to be integrated into JSP pages.As long as JavaServer Faces technology was developed under the

Google News in Hindi

2007-03-22T07:00:00.000-07:00

Millions of Hindi speakers across India and the rest of the world have a reason to cheer: Google News is now available in Hindi.Google News gathers news stories from the various Hindi news sources on the web and presents a ranked one-page summary with all the links to your favourite news sources in the various sections. One of the interesting challenges we faced in this edition was the fact that

Tomcat 6 Released and Stable

2007-03-06T05:54:00.000-08:00

The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 6.0.10 stable. This release is the first stable release of the 6.0.x branch. Apache Tomcat 6.0 includes new features over Apache Tomcat 5.5, including support for the new Servlet 2.5 and JSP 2.1 specifications, a refactored clustering implementation, advanced IO features, and improvements in memory usage. Please refer

Sun Microsystems Releases Java Enterprise System 5.0

2007-03-05T04:23:00.000-08:00

A new version of Sun's Java Enterprise System subscription-based middleware is now available. Sun Microsystems has released a new version of its Java Enterprise System (Java ES), a set of subscription-based enterprise middleware, with emphasis

"Father of Java" Receives Prestigious Canadian Honor

2007-02-28T06:58:00.000-08:00

Sun VP & Fellow James Gosling, the "Father of Java," pictured here talking with Jeremy Geelan on SYS-CON.TV at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, has just been named as a member of the Order of Canada, which recognizes 'outstanding lifetime achievement and contributions to society and the country' by Canadians from all walks of life.During the Waldorf interview, Gosling mentioned that one of

Java Code Optimization Guidelines

2007-02-22T22:49:00.000-08:00

Early Initialization Vs Lazy InitializationUse Early Initialization ( Preallocated Objects) when large number of Objects are needed during CPU intensive Operations. You can create them before hand when the CPU is less loaded.Use Lazy initialization (delay object creation until the last possible moment) when only few objects are used although many possible objects can be created.Local variables

Java accounts for 2.1% of GDP

2007-02-13T06:25:00.000-08:00

"The minute I pick up this phone to make a call," says Jaijit Bhattacharya, director (government strategy) in Sun Microsystems, "so many Java applications get triggered. The phone is Java-enabled and Java-enabled GPRS helps me to book movie tickets." Embedded Java or Java-enabled software applications today run our mobile phones, consumer electronic components and control systems. The extent to

Annual Java Technology Conference

2007-02-05T19:44:00.000-08:00

February 6, 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) the creator of Java technology, the Solaris Operating System and the world's leading contributor of open source code, today announced that registration is open and cosponsor and exhibitor recruitment for the 2007 JavaOne Conference is underway. Located at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, May 8-11, the JavaOne conference is the definitive

30 Most Important Java FAQS

2007-01-22T04:46:00.000-08:00

* Q1. How could Java classes direct program messages to the system console, but error messages, say to a file?A. The class System has a variable out that represents the standard output, and the variable err that represents the standard error device. By default, they both point at the system console. This how the standard output could be re-directed:Stream st = new Stream(new FileOutputStream("

Google's New Product Only for Googler's

2007-01-22T01:55:00.000-08:00

Google executives, who had promised to cut back on the number of new product rollouts, are at it again.But the search giant's newest innovation won't ever show up on a consumer's computer screen: The company has created a novel program designed to help its 8,000 workers manage their 6.6 million stock options.Beginning in April, Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) employees with vested stock

Getting Noticed on the Web - The Google Way

2007-01-17T05:44:00.000-08:00

Yaffa Balsam was mystified.Why did so many other family therapy websites pop to the top of Google (GOOG) search results listings, while her site was nowhere to be found?It's a question posed by thousands of small-business owners every day as they seek new customers online rather than through traditional Yellow Pages directories. These days, if a company website can't be found on Google, it

Google Snapshot - Why It has been Ranked No.1

2007-01-16T06:38:00.000-08:00

Googles new No. 1 award sets the standard for Silicon Valley: free meals, swimming spa, and free doctors onsite. Engineers can spend 20% of time on independent projects. No wonder Google gets 1,300 résumés a day. Working at Google means solving the most fascinating and difficult problems in computer science and making a positive difference in tens of millions of lives every day. Free gourmet

Java Application Security - Overview

2007-01-12T05:24:00.000-08:00

Application security is not easy - we know that. But we also know there are steps we can take to mitigate the risk of security failures. If we are network engineers, we invest in knowledge of network partitioning and packet filters. If we program in C, we protect against buffer overflow. If we program in Java, we consider running our application under the protection of a security manager. In each

Java - History Review

2007-01-11T02:49:00.000-08:00

Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. Java applications are, in the official implementation, compiled to bytecode, which is compiled to native machine code at runtime. Sun Microsystems provides a GNU General Public License implementation of a Java compiler and Java virtual machine, in compliance with the specifications of the Java

Sun Microsystems Named Best Server by InfoWorld

2007-01-09T04:23:00.000-08:00

Sun Microsystems, the creator of Java technology and Solaris, today highlighted three industry leading products – Sun Fire X4200, Sun Fire X4600 and NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) 5.5 – as recipients of Technology of the Year Awards by InfoWorld. Garnering top honors from the InfoWorld Test Center, Sun is honored with prestigious titles: Best Server, Best High-Performance

Google Ranked Best Company To Work For

2007-01-09T02:54:00.000-08:00

Internet search giant Google has been ranked by the Fortune magazine as the best company to work for in America with amenities like free gourmet food, free laundry facilities and onsite doctor.The search company, debuted at No. 1 in its first appearance in the list, leaving behind the biotech company Genetech, which topped the list last year, according to the rankings released by Fortune Magazine

Project jMaki: Add Ajax Enabled Widgets into Web Applications

2007-01-09T02:06:00.000-08:00

Project jMaki gives you a simple way to include Ajax-enabled widgets in your web applications. (Ajax is a technology that includes but is not limited to Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.) The jMaki technology does this by allowing you to wrap widgets in a JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology tag handler or a JavaServer Faces component. By wrapping a widget in this way, you can encapsulate it in a

Weblogic Server 10.0 Tech Preview

2007-01-08T22:06:00.000-08:00

BEA WebLogic Server is the world’s leading application server. Combining an enterprise-grade kernel, a unique blended development model and advanced administration capabilities, BEA WebLogic Server helps reduce the overall cost of management and operations while delivering high reliability, continuous uptime, and scalability for mission-critical applications. WebLogic 10 will support Java EE 5 (

Review/Preview 2006 & 2007 - Java

2007-01-02T03:37:00.000-08:00

Unlike previous years, 2006 has been a defining year for Java, marking fundamental change for what remains, by many objective measures, today's most popular programming language. Most critical to the fate of Java is Sun's decision to release its implementation of Java under terms of the GPL, a process that is well underway today with the release of the HotSpot VM, javac compiler, and a GPL Java

Java Technology Winners & Losers - 2006

2007-01-02T02:46:00.000-08:00

Here are the winners and, yes, even losers for the most and least innovative and/or impacting Java technologies in 2006…First, the winners for 2006: Java IDE Platform/general Java FrameworkNetBeans IDENetBeans wins over Eclipse this year, because NetBeans has made significant progress and growth relative to Eclipse. A year or so ago, NetBeans seemed dead and buried. Eclipse is still the market

Master Java Classpath(Unix, Mac OS X & Windows)

2007-01-01T09:55:00.000-08:00

The classpath is one of the most complex and infuriating parts of the Java™ platform, but mastering it is essential to becoming a professional Java programmer. In this article, Elliotte Rusty Harold lays out the intricacies of the classpath and sourcepath and shows you how to master them on UNIX and Mac OS X. If you're using Windows, see the Java Classpath Windows article.The classpath is the

Flaws Are Detected in Microsoft’s Vista

2006-12-26T01:23:00.000-08:00

Microsoft is facing an early crisis of confidence in the quality of its Windows Vista operating system as computer security researchers and hackers have begun to find potentially serious flaws in the system that was released to corporate customers late last month.On Dec. 15, a Russian programmer posted a description of a flaw that makes it possible to increase a user’s privileges on all of the

Windows VISTA FAQ

2006-12-22T02:48:00.000-08:00

Q. When was Vista originally supposed to ship? A. Initial scuttlebutt had it that Windows XP's successor would arrive in 2003, and would be a modest update to fill time between XP and "Blackcomb," which was supposed to be the big-deal XP replacement. Then Microsoft announced that the supposedly minor upgrade, code-named "Longhorn," would appear in late 2004. This was followed by slippage and

GOOGLE, NASA tie-up for Imagery, Info Deal

2006-12-19T04:51:00.000-08:00

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. - Google Inc. and NASA Ames Research Center said Monday that they have finalized an agreement to deliver more of the space agency's imagery and information through the Internet's leading search engine. The collaboration marks another step in a partnership announced 15 months ago when Google unveiled plans to build a 1 million-square-foot campus at the NASA center, located a

Sun goes multilingual with Java SE 6

2006-12-18T04:20:00.000-08:00

Java SE now allows developers to mix Java with other scripting languages.Sun Microsystems has released the latest version of its Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE), placing particular emphasis on the application development platform's support for other scripting languages.Java SE 6 is the first version of the software where developers will be able to mix Java

Google's Stock Option Flexibility for Googlers

2006-12-17T22:07:00.000-08:00

Google plans to institute a unique program that will let employees directly sell their vested stock options to outside buyers. The program, known as "Transferable Stock Options," is expected to go live in April. Currently, some 6.6 million share options would be eligible for trading, and Google plans to take a charge to account for the potential higher costs involved.Hoping to attract and retain

Google adds Website Registry to get our own Domain Name

2006-12-16T03:50:00.000-08:00

Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California. Google got into the website registry business as the Internet juggernaut set out to add momentum to its free online software offerings. Google teamed with domain registry firms GoDaddy.com and eNom to create an application that enables people to claim their own .com, .net, .org, or .info realms for a cost of 10

Primer on Spring DAO

2006-12-13T19:27:00.000-08:00

Abstract The business components in J2EE applications typically use the JDBC API to access and change persistent data in relational databases. This often leads to the mixing of persistence code with business logic—a bad idea. The Data Access Object (DAO) design pattern addresses this problem by separating the persistence logic into data access classes. This article is a primer on DAO design

Sun Announces Availability of Java Platform Standard Edition 6

2006-12-11T05:42:00.000-08:00

Java Standard Edition 6 Delivers Enhanced Functionality for Web Services, Dynamic Language Support, Diagnostics, and Desktop Applications.Sun Microsystems, the creator of Java technology and the Solaris Operating System and the world's leading contributor of open source code, today announced the availability of Java Platform Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6). The Java SE 6 release is the result of

Windows Vista Released -- R U Ready?

2006-12-09T01:45:00.000-08:00

WINDOWS VISTA, the latest iteration of Microsoft’s operating system, is finally here. It was officially released to corporate users last week and will be available to consumers on Jan. 30. But now that Vista is ready, will your computer be? And what will be involved in an upgrade?Microsoft says Vista offers increased security, along with an improved search function, an excellent calendar program

Sun Microsystems begin operations in Visakhapatnam

2006-12-08T03:16:00.000-08:00

As part of its expansion to tier II cities in India, the $ 13 billion US-based Sun Microsystems launched its operation in Visakhapatnam on Thursday in tie-up with Locuz Enterprises Solutions Limited (LESL). Systems, servers, design work station, "sparc" processors, advanced micro devices known as "opteron" and webservers are some of the products the firm would market, said Sun Microsystems

IBM Lotus SameTime Joins Hands With Google Talk

2006-12-07T04:37:00.000-08:00

When Google Talk launched, we expressed our commitment to open standards in the belief that real-time communication should be as open as possible. We hoped that people would have their choice of service provider, but still be able to chat with other networks using their preferred client. With our support for XMPP federation, hundreds of services are connecting to Google Talk via this open

Sun Tech Days - 2007@Hyderabad

2006-12-05T04:30:00.000-08:00

Sun Tech Days@2007 - A Worldwide Developer Conference will be commencing from Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 at Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Hyderabad, India.Sun Tech Days brings together visionaries, leading experts, developers and Java evangelists to ensure your opportunities are wide open. And also instructor led sessions will help us to practically experience latest technology

SPRING - The Framework - Part I

2006-12-04T21:04:00.000-08:00

Spring is a lightweight container and framework to develop and deploy the enterprise application. It is an alternative for Enterprise Java Beans(EJB). It reduce the complexity behind developing EJB's, and it uses only Plain Old Java Objects(POJOs) as the components.Spring Architecture:if you think Spring is an framework in the place of Struts, you have wrong conception about the Spring . Spring

Whats new in Java SE 6(MUSTANG)

2006-12-03T05:53:00.000-08:00

Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) version 6 (code name Mustang), is currently in its second beta release. Java SE 6 includes several enhancements to the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API. These enhancements will be released as JDBC version 4.0. The main objectives of the new JDBC features are to provide a simpler design and better developer experience. This article provides an

Virtual Ant - A GUI for Apache Ant

2006-12-01T07:42:00.000-08:00

Virtual Ant provides a GUI which provides a full macro recording mechanism for building Ant configuration files. The GUI allows you to specify operations and their orders, and builds the project file based on what you do. The project isn't available yet, but a video demo is - and the project author is asking for feedback.Based on the video, Virtual Ant provides an environment similar to Windows

Sun Microsystems Teams with Ericsson and Nokia

2006-11-30T05:17:00.000-08:00

Sun Microsystems Teams with Ericsson and Nokia to Form the Telecommunications Platform Initiative.Initiative Aims to Simplify Technology Integration for Operators and Service Providers.Sun Microsystems today announced a new global cooperation with Ericsson and Nokia that aims to unite the Network Equipment Provider (NEP) community and assist telecommunications operators and service providers.

Connection Pooling in Java

2006-11-29T07:27:00.000-08:00

Connection pooling is a technique that was pioneered by database vendors to allow multiple clients to share a cached set of connection objects that provide access to a database resource.Database connections : take a relatively long time to create are always limited in number (most medium- and low-end servers have a maximum of ~100 connections) are resources which must be

Sun Microsystems Infrastructure is Deployed in Rush University Medical Center

2006-11-28T08:30:00.000-08:00

Sun Microsystems today announced that Rush University Medical Center in Chicago has deployed a Sun technology infrastructure to run a critical new Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system. The Sun system, comprised of the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), UltraSPARC IV+ processor-based Sun Fire servers and Sun StorageTek solutions, provides the rigorous high-availability environment required for

Open Java Changes Everything

2006-11-27T04:03:00.000-08:00

Now that the dust is beginning to settle on Sun’s Decision to open source Java , what does it actually mean for you? That’s you as in a Business user, you as in a Java Developer , and you as a member of the wider IT Community? * In the short run (i.e. next 6 months), once the buzz dies down , not much. Remember that it took several years after the Netscape code was open source for Firefox to

JDK 5 in Practice

2006-11-24T06:47:00.000-08:00

Lets take some time to check some features that were introduced in JDK 5.Enhanced for loopThe undisputed winner. I can't even begin to describe how good it feels to use the new for loop everywhere (well, almost everywhere). I mentally cringe the few times when I am forced to use the old for loop, typically when I need the index or that I want the Iterator to be visible outside the loop.The code

Project Blackbox Datacenter by Sun Microsystems

2006-11-23T04:42:00.000-08:00

After today, you'll never look at an ordinary shipping container quite the same way again. Project Blackbox is a prototype of the world's first virtualized datacenter--built into a shipping container and optimized to deliver extreme energy, space, and performance efficiencies.Datacenter is called as NOC (Network Operations Center), a datacenter is a physical center from where networks are managed

Linus Torvalds - Godfather of Open Source

2006-11-22T04:48:00.000-08:00

Linus Torvalds was just 21 when he changed the world. Working out of his family's apartment in Helsinki in 1991, he wrote the kernel of a new computer operating system called Linux that he posted for free on the Internet — and invited anyone interested to help improve it.Today, 15 years later, Linux powers everything from supercomputers to mobile phones around the world, and Torvalds has achieved

Inventor of Spanning Tree Algorithm becomes Sun Microsystems Fellow

2006-11-21T04:07:00.000-08:00

Inventor of Spanning Tree, Robust and Scalable Routing, and Innovations in Network Security Joins Ranks of Sun's Most Prestigious Technical Staff.The creator of the open-source Solaris Operating System (OS), Radia Perlman, in recognition of her considerable technical expertise and profound impact on the fields of network security and routing, has been named a Sun Fellow by Sun

At Last! Open Source Java

2006-11-14T08:58:00.000-08:00

It’s finally happened! Sun has released Java under an open source license. Not only that, they did it in the best possible way: using GPL version 2, not some bizarre concoction of their own. Congratulations to Jonathan Schwartz, James Gosling, and everyone else involved with this decision. What’s surprising, of course, is how long it took. We’ve talked about it for years, written articles and

Best Practices for Exception Handling

2006-11-12T03:45:00.000-08:00

One of the problems with exception handling is knowing when and how to use it. In this article, I will cover some of the best practices for exception handling. I will also summarize the recent debate about the use of checked exceptions.We as programmers want to write quality code that solves problems. Unfortunately, exceptions come as side effects of our code. No one likes side effects, so we

Google Maps in Mobiles

2006-11-10T10:59:00.000-08:00

Ever get lost, or turned around? Found yourself in unfamiliar territory? Or worse, awakened with just one shoe on? Well, we have something for you. No, not a shoe -- we mean GPS-Enabled Google Maps on the Helio Drift.In a very short time, Google Maps for Mobile has taken a lead in mobile mapping and is available on more than 300 phone models. Now we've taken it to a new level: we're partnering

GoogleTalk integrated with Orkut

2006-11-09T09:28:00.000-08:00

You talkin' to me? I sure hope so. At Google, we like it when people talk with each other. So we figured we should make life a little easier for our friends on orkut, where getting in touch and staying in touch is the name of the game. We noticed that a lot of orkut users have been using a separate instant messaging program to chat, which just seems like unnecessary work -- clicking around,

Know Why Sun is open sourcing its Java platform implementation

2006-11-08T04:39:00.000-08:00

James Gosling, widely regarded as the father of Java technology, has been hard at work helping Sun Microsystems with its efforts to open source Sun's Java SE (JDK) and Java ME implementations. The Java EE implementation has been open sourced for over a year as Project GlassFish. Let's know from Gosling how things are going to open source Java plarform implementations.Just Check what Gosling

Try SCBCD 5.0 Beta Certification Exam for Free

2006-11-07T06:36:00.000-08:00

Are you a developer who is responsible for designing and implementing applications using Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0? If so, this is your opportunity to get involved in the creation of the Sun Certified Business Component Developer (SCBCD) 5.0 exam!!!!! » Beta Dates: December 8, 2006 – January 2, 2007» Registration Start Date: November 24, 2006 As a beta tester, you officially test the test

Use Google Web Toolkit(GWT) to transit Java into AJAX

2006-11-06T22:09:00.000-08:00

You'll be hard-pressed to find a programmer who thinks programming in JavaScript is easy, or for that matter likes doing it. But it's a necessary evil for many programmers to learn JavaScript, especially with the advent of Ajax(Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) and hot applications that use it, like Google Maps and Gmail. So leave it to Google, which made Ajax a hit, to provide

Sun updates Java IDE with more productivity tools

2006-11-06T20:15:00.000-08:00

Sun Microsystems has released NetBeans 5.5, the latest version of the company's open source Java IDE aiming to beef up the software's productivity tools and improve its look and feel. Download Netbeans 5.5 from URL http://www.netbeans.info/downloads/index.php Sun estimates that there have been more than 11 million downloads of NetBeans since its debut as open source technology in June 2000.

Developing JavaServer Faces Web Applications With AJAX Using Sun Java Studio Creator

2006-11-06T09:48:00.000-08:00

The Developing JavaServer Faces Web Applications With AJAX Using Sun Java Studio Creator course covers the basics of web applications programming using the asynchronous programming model. The course discusses theories for properly assembling a well-designed web application. The primary focus of this course is the overview of JavaServer Faces and asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)

National Skills Registry (NSR) – An IT & ITeS industry initiative taken-up by NASSCOM

2006-10-30T12:13:00.001-08:00

India has emerged as the global hub for IT and ITeS industry and is providing services to customers ranging from corporates, public bodies and even foreign governments. India can remain attractive to such customers only so long as we are able to keep up our service delivery to their satisfaction and demonstrate that we are following best practices in recruitment, information security, etc.NASSCOM

The Best Practices of JSP

2006-10-30T12:13:00.000-08:00

ktmvpnvThe emphasis on JSP best practices is simply because JSP pages seem to be more widely used because JSP technology promotes the separation of presentation from content. I Choose the right include mechanism: Static data such as headers, footers, and navigation bar content is best kept in separate files and not regenerated dynamically. Once such content is in separate files, they can be

Manage your expectations

2006-10-30T10:49:00.000-08:00

osaolopWhen you join a company, you are full of enthusiasm and have a burning desire to prove yourself. However, be prepared to do low-key tasks in the first few months (in some cases, years) of your stint with the organisation. One of my friend, who works for a BPO as a Team Leader, had a tough time accepting the fact that he just did repetitive data processing in the first few months of his job