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Divide and conquer: Play framework modules

It’s usually the case that you start developing an application and go on fulfilling requirements. When your application grows bigger you start to realize the convenience of separating it into different components. Moreover, when you develop your second or...

2 replies - 1087 views - 01/20/12 by sas open in Articles

The Spark micro framework

Web programming is the science of coming up with increasingly complicated ways of concatenating strings. -- Greg BrockmanIn the description of its authors, Spark is a Sinatra inspired micro web framework for quickly creating web applications in Java with...

0 replies - 3712 views - 12/20/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

OpenXava 4m6: Rapid Java Web Development Framework

OpenXava is a productive way for creating business AJAX applications with Java. With OpenXava you only need to write domain classes (simple Java classes annotated with JPA) to get an application ready for production.OpenXava 4m6 has been released just now....

0 replies - 1207 views - 11/11/10 by Javier Paniza in Announcements

OSGi and servlets can work together

OSGi is the emerging Java platform, and a surefire architectural solution to avoid the infamous Jar hell during the development of Java applications.Web interfaces are another rather important feature today, and OSGi lacks as far as I know a native solution...

0 replies - 8003 views - 06/01/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Play! Framework Usability

Perhaps the most striking thing about about the Play! framework is that its biggest advantage over other Java web application development frameworks does not fit into a neat feature list, and is only apparent after you have used it to build something. That...

8 replies - 14036 views - 03/16/10 by Peter Hilton in Articles

Author Interview: Dave Klein on Grails: A Quick Start Guide

I recently had the opportunity to interview Dave Klein, the author of DZone's Getting Started with Grails Refcard and Grails: A Quick-Start Guide for the Pragmatic Programmers, affectionately known in Twitter circles as "GQuick." You may have...

0 replies - 9422 views - 12/14/09 by Matt Stine in Articles

Flex 3 with Java Book Review

Flex 3 with Java is a quick read (<300 pages) that immediately gets you up to speed on what Flex is and how you can use it. Having worked with another RIA framework I was keen to see what Flex had...

0 replies - 10289 views - 09/29/09 by Michael Shields in Book Reviews

Advanced Web Application Security

The security landscape has changed dramatically in the past 12 months. Unless you are aware of CSRF, Javascript Highjacking and the many ways to fool an XSS filter, it’s likely that your web application will not be secure. Attackers used to concentrate on...

2 replies - 6028 views - 07/27/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Agile Web Development with Grails

Agile Development is all about developing code and seeking feedback from your users to make sure you’re developing what’s relevant. When changes are suggested, they must be affordable and reliable.

0 replies - 10433 views - 07/16/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

GWT Basic Project Structure And Components

The core of every GWT project is the project layout and the basic components required—host pages, entry points, and modules. To begin a GWT project, you need to create the default layout and generate the initial files. The easiest way to do this is to use...

2 replies - 19779 views - 07/14/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Write A Struts 2 Action Class In 5 Minutes Using Annotations

This tutorial is a continuation of Setup web application using spring Struts 2 and Maven with Eclipse 3.3. The project structure is as shown in the below screenshot.

0 replies - 27589 views - 07/14/08 by karthikeyan Cho... in News

BIRT 2.3 What's New And the Ganymede IDE for Java Report Developers

BIRT is a top level project through Eclipse and one of the most popular tools for designing and developing reports for business. Web Builder Zone Leader, Schalk Neethling, recently had an interview with BIRT evangelist Virgil Dodson with regards to the latest...

2 replies - 32419 views - 06/30/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Wicket Creating RESTful URLs

This is a tutorial on using Wicket with REST-style URLs. Normally, Wicket generates URLs that are a bit ugly. For example: http://www.example.com/wui/?wicket:bookmarkablePage=%3Anl.stuq.demo.SomePage. Uch!RESTful URLs change that: they are more meaningful for...

3 replies - 19408 views - 06/24/08 by Daan van Etten in News

MyEclipse 6.5 Released, 5 Licenses for DZone Members!

Genuitec has announced two major product releases: MyEclipse 6.5 and MyEclipse 6.5 Blue Edition. DZone has 5 FREE licenses to give away! Both are available for immediate download and free 30-day trial on the MyEclipse site.

12 replies - 18409 views - 06/24/08 by Schalk Neethling in Articles

Understanding the GWT compiler

The GWT compiler is the fulcrum of GWT. The entire approach GWT takes, encapsulating browser differences and compiling JavaScript from Java, is made possible by the design and architecture of the compiler. The GWT compiler compiles Java into JavaScript, but...

2 replies - 65123 views - 06/17/08 by Schalk Neethling in News