Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Codehaus XFire - Home

Codehaus XFire - Home: "Codehaus XFire is a next-generation java SOAP framework. Codehaus XFire makes service oriented development approachable through its easy to use API and support for standards. It is also highly performant since it is built on a low memory StAX based model.
Features & Goals

* Support for important Web Service standards - SOAP, WSDL, WS-I Basic Profile, WS-Addressing, WS-Security, etc.
* High performance SOAP Stack
* Pluggable bindings POJOs, XMLBeans, JAXB 1.1, JAXB 2.0, and Castor support
* JSR 181 API to configure services via Java 5 and 1.4 (Commons attributes JSR 181 syntax)
* Support for many different transports - HTTP, JMS, XMPP, In-JVM, etc.
* Embeddable and Intuitive API
* Spring, Pico, Plexus, and Loom support.
* JBI Support
* Client and server stub generation
* JAX-WS early access support"

Stripes - Home

Stripes - Home: "Stripes is a presentation framework for building web applications using the latest Java technologies. The main driver behind Stripes is that web application development in Java is just too much work! It seems like every existing framework requires gobs of configuration. Struts is pretty feature-light and has some serious architectural issues (see Stripes vs. Struts for details). Others, like WebWork 2 and Spring-MVC are much better, but still require a lot of configuration, and seem to require you to learn a whole new language just to get started."

JExcelApi

JExcelApi: "Java Excel API is a mature, open source java API enabling developers to read, write, and modifiy Excel spreadsheets dynamically. Now java developers can read Excel spreadsheets, modify them with a convenient and simple API, and write the changes to any output stream (e.g. disk, HTTP, database, or any socket).

Any operating system which can run a Java virtual machine (i.e., not just Windows) can both process and deliver Excel spreadsheets. Because it is Java, the API can be invoked from within a servlet, thus giving access to Excel spreadsheets over internet and intranet web applications."

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

opensso: Home

opensso: Home: "The Open Web SSO project (OpenSSO) provides core identity services to simplify the implementation of transparent single sign-on (SSO) as a security component in a network infrastructure. OpenSSO provides the foundation for integrating diverse web applications that might typically operate against a disparate set of identity repositories and are hosted on a variety of platforms such as web and application servers. This project is based on the code base of Sun JavaTM System Access Manager, a core identity infrastructure product offered by Sun Microsystems."

Friday, August 18, 2006

Java Plugin Framework (JPF) - Home

Java Plugin Framework (JPF) - Home: "The JPF framework is based around the concept of 'plug-ins'. A plug-in is a structured component that contributes code and resources to the system and describes them in a structured way. These plug-ins can further define extension points, well-defined method hooks that can be extended by other plug-ins. When one plug-in provides an implementation of an extension point defined by another plug-in, we say that it adds an extension to the system. This approach allows developers using JPF to build highly modular and easily extendible applications."

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

java.net: A Brief Introduction to IoC

java.net: A Brief Introduction to IoC: "The Theory of IoC

The best way to describe what IoC is about, and what benefits it can provide, is to look at a simple example. The following JDBCDataManger class is used to manage our application's accessing of the database. This application is currently using raw JDBC for persistence. To access the persistence store via JDBC, the JDBCDataManger will need a DataSource object. The standard approach would be to hard code this DataSource object into the class, like this:"

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

TestNG - Welcome

TestNG - Welcome: "TestNG is a testing framework inspired from JUnit and NUnit but introducing some new functionalities that make it more powerful and easier to use, such as:

* JDK 5 Annotations (JDK 1.4 is also supported with JavaDoc annotations).
* Flexible test configuration.
* Support for data-driven testing (with @DataProvider).
* Support for parameters.
* Allows distribution of tests on slave machines.
* Powerful execution model (no more TestSuite).
* Supported by a variety of tools and plug-ins (Eclipse, IDEA, Maven, etc...).
* Embeds BeanShell for further flexibility.
* Default JDK functions for runtime and logging (no dependencies).
* Dependent methods for application server testing.

TestNG is designed to cover all categories of tests: unit, functional, end-to-end, integration, etc..."

Friday, August 04, 2006

Swingweb - Swingweb - Introduction

Swingweb - Swingweb - Introduction: "Swingweb is a web-application framework that enables AWT/Swing application to operate inside a web container and presented as a web application to the web browser, purely in HTML/CSS/javascript. The swing application will render and behave in the web-container the same as it would as a desktop application. There is little knowledge required for the developer to start developing swingweb application as long as they are familiar with swing UI development. "