Daryl's Blog

  • How to Configure a JPA Project Using Spring and Hibernate

    Introduction In most Java projects that involve a database, a ORM(Object Relational Mapping) layer is needed. This can be done by hand via JDBC. Spring does make the job easier however with a JdbcTemplate. The other way is to use one of the libraries that is popular is Hibernate. Another… Read ⇢

  • The JAXB Well Known Secret

    Introduction I rediscovered a library that Java offers to the masses. When I first read the specification, I was confused and thought I needed all these special tools to implement. I found recently that all was needed was some annotations and a POJO. JAXB JAXB stands for Java Architecture for… Read ⇢

  • Solving a Puzzle with Spring

    Introduction Spring Spring uses the Inversion of Control (IoC) pattern. There are many ways to do IoC. From what I can tell (please comment if I am entirely wrong) is that instead of creating the objects yourself, you have someone else do it for you. For example, EJB lookups with… Read ⇢

  • Introduction to Spring Link

    This is a great site to learn what Spring can do for your next project. http://www.theserverside.com/news/1364527/Introduction-to-the-Spring-Framework Read ⇢

  • Ajax + Servlet

    Introduction Found myself with some spare time on my hands and decided to figure out how Ajax works and develop a little example for the blog seeing that I haven’t updated since near infinity in Internet time. Ajax Ajax (AJAX) stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It is a technique… Read ⇢

  • Technologies I am Working on

    I have been combining technologies for my For the Little Guy application described in the documents in the download section. Next post I am going to give a demonstration of how I combined Eclipse, Spring Framework and Maven. Currently work has been quite demanding so I have slipped on posts.… Read ⇢

  • Searching Jars

    I have run into the problem where I am looking for the right jar file from a production environment and bring it to a development environment. The problem is that when I get the ClassNotFoundException or the “I can’t find this class” error from the compiler, the right jar file… Read ⇢

  • Using the Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) (Part 3)

    Introduction In the last two posts about using JNDI, I have shown examples of how one can get and add information in a number of ways. The first post discussed LDAP servers and showed a quick program one could use to retrieve entries stored in the server.  The entry was… Read ⇢

  • One for the Little Guy

    Motivation Those who may know me know that I was recently laid off. During that time one of my uncles gave me a challenge I could not refuse, “Could you put all of my customer contacts in a computer?” I was intrigued because I thought everyone put information that valuable… Read ⇢

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