In what I hope will be the first of several articles about Guice, a new lightweight dependency injection container from Bob Lee and Kevin Bourillion from Google, this article examines the simplest and most obvious use case for the Guice container, for mocking or faking objects in unit tests. In future articles I will examine other, more ambitious areas where it can be used, including dependency elimination in large code bases.
Trying to combine JSF and JSP is like trying to shoehorn a foot into a glove: it's possible, but it's really just a stopgap measure until something better comes along. In this article, JSF enthusiast Rick Hightower introduces you to what he likes best about Facelets: easy HTML-style templating and reusable composition components.
Where possible, creating Web applications — including Ajax-based applications — in a RESTful way avoids a large class of bugs. However, a pitfall of REST (REpresentational State Transfer) is sending duplicate data across similar XMLHttpRequests. This tip shows how the moderate use of session cookies can maintain just enough server-side state to significantly reduce client-server traffic, while still allowing fallback to cookie-free operation.
Exploratory visualization based on multiple coordinated views. Improvise has been used to explore election results, particle trajectories, network loads, music collections, the chemical elements, and even the dynamic coordination structure of its own vis
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This document is a guide to help troubleshoot problems that might arise with applications that are developed using the Sun Microsystems Inc. release of Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 (JDK 6 release or Java SE 6 release). In particular, this guide addresses possible problems between the applications and the Java HotSpot virtual machine. The document provides a description of the tools, command line options, and other help in analyzing a problem. The document also provides guidance on how to approach some general issues such as a crash, hang, or memory resource issues. Finally, the document provides direction for data collection and bug report preparation.
No Thick Manuals is a wiki that offers a growing collection of quality hands-on articles and tips to the best open source applications for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. No Thick Manuals was born on February 6, 2005. All No Thick Manuals articles and tips are released under the GNU Free Documentation License. No Thick Manuals supports open source software (see a list of projects that have received donations).
sux0r 2.0 is an extendable content management system (CMS) built around the principles of Naive Bayesian probabilistic content.
Naive Bayesian Categorization is the ouija board of mathematics. Known for being good at filtering junk mail, the Naive Bayesian algorithm can categorize anything so long as there are coherent reference texts to work from. For example, categorizing documents in relation to a vector of political manifestos, or religious holy books, make for a neat trick. More subjective magic 8-ball categories could be "good vs. bad" or company press releases in relation to stock market prices.
In addition to being a blog, RSS aggregator, bookmark repository, and photo publishing platform, sux0r 2.0 allows users to maintain multiple lists of Naive Bayesian categories. These category lists, called vectors, can be shared with other users. This allows a group of trusted friends to share, train, and use sux0r together.
This book is an introduction to Java™ language--a widely used programming language and a platform. It is meant to be both an introductory guide and a useful reference on Java and related technologies.
ChunkIt! is a safe and innovative add-on to your Internet browser that searches and extracts the valuable "chunks" of information often hidden within the countless hyperlinks that comprise the Web.
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After a quick install, you'll see the new ChunkIt! search box appear in your browser. By entering keywords in the ChunkIt! search box, valuable information from the Web will become much easier to find. This revolutionary approach to search will save you hours of time and frustration because you can avoid aimless browsing and endless clicking from one link to another. It's the perfect application for researching consumer products, gathering important information, sifting through discussion groups and blogs, and finding answers to all your home and technical problems.
Using a rule engine provides a framework that allows a way to externalize business logic in a common place. This will in turn empower business users and subject matter experts of the business to easily change and manage the rules. Coding such rules directly into the application makes application maintenance difficult and expensive because the rules change so often. This article goes into detail on how to architect and build a service that uses Drools to provide business decisions. This service can be part of the overall enterprise SOA infrastructure. As such, it can either be a standalone service that is consumed in a one-to-many model by all contracted consumers, or part of a composite service that provides a complex business functionality. To illustrate this point, the article shows how a service using the Drools rule engine can hide the complexity of automating mortgage underwriting decisions that a mortgage company needs to make on a daily basis.
S. Angelov, P. Grefen, and D. Greefhorst. Joint Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture, 2009 & European Conference on Software Architecture. WICSA/ECSA 2009, page 141--150. IEEE, (September 2009)