Open Resource Window
May 15th, 2008Eclipse provides a window called ‘Open Resource’ window to locate the required files in no time.
RecordStore with examples - III
May 15th, 2008I will continue exploring RecordStore with examples in this post.
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RecordStore with examples - II
May 14th, 2008Let continue exploring RecordStore.
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RecordStore with examples - I
May 14th, 2008I will use several examples to show how to use RecordStrore in J2ME applications.
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in.use file
May 13th, 2008A lot of J2ME developers face problems when running multiple instance of Nokia Wireless Toolkit emulators. Some of the problems are linked with in.use file. This post is all about that.
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ANT’s best practices - IX
May 13th, 2008Testing the build file is important. You don’t want other coders complaining about your ANT script.
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ANT’s best practices - VII
May 12th, 2008It is common to use Ant to create WAR, JAR, ZIP, and EAR files. These files generally require a particular internal directory structure. Its normal that the archive files directory structure won’t match directory structure of your source code and build environment.
ANT’s best practices - VI
May 12th, 2008It is always a good idea to keep the build process self-contained. This post is all about this.
ANT’s best practices - V
May 11th, 2008Do read the previous posts on this very topic before going through this one. I assume that you have some understaing of the ANT build precess.
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ANT’s best practices - IV
May 11th, 2008In this post, I have discussed how dependency management can make build process faster and more manageable.
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ANT’s best practices - III
May 10th, 2008Do read the first two parts of this post for better understanding. This post continues to list ANT’s best practices.
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ANT’s best practices - II
May 10th, 2008In this post, I will continue talking about ANT’s best practices.
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ANT’s best practices - I
May 10th, 2008ANT makes building complex Java applications easier. But many people argue that managing ANT scripts is itself a cumbersome task and involves a lot of effort. In the next few posts, I will talk about how one can adopt best practices for creating and managing ANT scripts that will make the life of developers and configuration managers easier.
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Transformations API for XML - IV
May 9th, 2008Do read the first 3 posts on this topic before going through this one.
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Transformations API for XML - III
May 9th, 2008The six steps discussed in the last posts makes XSLT transformation based on the StAXSource/StAXResult classes very simple and easy. The actual task is to create the StAXSource/StAXResult objects and the using the required constructor.
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Transformations API for XML - II
May 8th, 2008Do read the first postr on this topic before going through this one.
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Transformations API for XML - I
May 8th, 2008In the next few posts, I will write about how to perform an XSLT transformation using StAX APIs: Cursor API and Event Iterator API.
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Creating MessageDigest - 2
May 7th, 2008This post is in continuation of “Creating MessageDigest - 1″. Do read that before going through this one.
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Creating MessageDigest - 1
May 7th, 2008Message digests are secure one-way hash functions that take arbitrary-sized data and output a fixed-length hash value. Thing to remember is that it I s not any encryption technique. It’s simply hashing. Same message will always generate the same hash code and a slight change in the message will generate completely different hash code. In the next few posts, I will talk about how we can generate message digests in our Java programmes.
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Behavioral Pattern - Iterator Pattern (Example) - 2
May 6th, 2008The defined channel iterator will be common for all the remote controls. So we know which method will do our required task, but the method has to be implemented by the class implementing this interface.
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Behavioral Pattern - Iterator Pattern (Example) - 1
May 6th, 2008The aim is to iterate through a collection of data using a common interface and more importantly, underlying implementation should not be known. We have a behavioral design pattern called ‘Iterator Pattern’ for this. I will introduce you to it in this post.
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Path vs ClassPath
May 5th, 2008I have found may people asking the difference between ClassPath and path. They tend to mix these and find this confusing. I will address this issue in this post.
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Sync4J - II
May 5th, 2008Although the sync4j project has not actually published any source, it is still under active development.
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Sync4J - I
May 5th, 2008To create an implementation of SyncML protocol, you may use sync4j. I will introduce you to sync4j in this post.
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Asynchronous method calls - II
May 4th, 2008Do read the first part of this post. In this post, I will prenset another example of asynchronous method calls in EJBeans.
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Asynchronous method calls - I
May 4th, 2008Methods called on the asynchronous proxy will be executed asynchronously, and the results can be obtained later on.
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Defining annotations
May 3rd, 2008It is right to say that a typical application programmer won’t need to define annotations in normal routine. But still, one should know how to define annotations.
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Hibernate Queries - III
May 3rd, 2008I will continue exploring Hibernate queries with example.
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Hibernate Queries - II
May 2nd, 2008In this post, I will continue presenting HQL tips and trick that will help you in development.
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Hibernate Queries - I
May 2nd, 2008Hibernate is a popular OR (Object Relational) mapping framework. To access database, we have to use Hibernate Query language. I will present the basics in this post that will help you starting quering database tables using HQL.
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MIDP packages - 3
April 30th, 2008In this post, I will present the CLDC java.io, CLDC java.util along with collection classes.
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MIDP packages - 2
April 30th, 2008The CLDC java.io package contains many of the standard J2SE io package classes. Following are CLDC java.io input classes:
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MIDP packages - I
April 29th, 2008MIDP provides a standard run-time environment that allows new applications and services to be deployed dynamically on end-user devices like cellular phones and pagers. The MIDP is built upon CLDC (Connected Limited Device Configuration).
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GPS location / Cell id / Placing a call
April 29th, 2008This post presents miscellanoeous tasks that you can do in your J2ME application.
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Sending SMS (snippet)
April 29th, 2008This post presents a snippet for sending short text messages from J2Me applications.
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Reading/writing files
April 29th, 2008This post is all about reading and writing text files on mobile device.
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Subclipse
April 28th, 2008Consider that you are working on a large/medium size Java project in teams. This is an ideal senerio for using Subversion to distribute and maintain source code. Good news is that youc an use integrate your source code with Subversion within Eclpise environment.
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Subversion (intro)
April 28th, 2008Subversion is a centralized system for sharing information. It comprises of a repository, which is a central store of data. The repository stores information in the form of a file system. Clients can connect to this repository, and can read or write to these files. When a client writes data, it actually makes the information available to others; and when a client reads the data, it actually receives information from others. Its a typical client server system which uses versioning model.
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JSR 75 (2)
April 25th, 2008In this post, I will write about how to read a file from the file system of a mobile device.
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JSR 75 (I)
April 25th, 2008JSR 75 specifies 2 optional packages for mobile devices. I will be talking about these in the next few posts.
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XML Pull Parsing (Demo)
April 25th, 2008XML Pull Parsing makes marsing XML documents easier and efficient. This post introduces this API.
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Maven (intro)
April 24th, 2008Maven is a software project management tool, based on project object model. It aims at retusing the load of developer by making in software build process simple and faster.
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Record Management System (III)
April 24th, 2008In this post, I will continue writing about RMS - but more specifically relavent to codding.
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Record Management System (II)
April 24th, 2008Do read the first part of this post. This post is code specific. I will present some sode snippets to make things obvious.
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TextField vs TextBox (2)
April 23rd, 2008I will write about TextBox (javax.microedition.lcdui.TextBox). This class inherits from javax.microedition.lcdui.Screen, so you should know that its a Screen and unlike TextField, it cannot be appended to a Form.
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TextField vs TextBox (1)
April 23rd, 2008javax.microedition.lcdui provides TextField and TextBox which are sometimes confusing. Both are to allow the user to enter text, but question arises, when to use which one? In this post, I will try to address this issue.
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Record Management System (I)
April 22nd, 2008RMS is a database (flat file) which MIDlets can use to persist data. In this post, I will introduce the audience with RMS.
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OMA standard for data synchronisation - SyncML
April 22nd, 2008SyncML is the standard for data synchronization and is accepted by Open Mobile Alliance (OMA). All the major players, including Ericsson, Nokia, IBM, Motorola, and Symbian support this protocol.
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Using the DocumentBuilderFactory
April 22nd, 2008In this post, I will prensent an example to show how to use the DocumentBuilderFactory.
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Working with the DOM parser
April 21st, 2008You will be introduced to the working of DOM parser in this post.
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