Spring framework used dependency injection (DI) principle (also called as inversion of control) to provide a container that can offers many services to Java applications. Not only services but it also integrates AOP framework, Database access frameworks to ease a programmer’s life. The popularity of this framework made Sun to re-look at its Java technology stack to make coding easy. Impact of this framework can be easily seen on Java 5 release, where we can see drastic change in EJB framework. Annotations used to inject objects are also result of …

You must have played a lot with Google Earth to find your home or your other favorite places. Also, you must have amended it with the place details you know. Google Earth is an example of collaborative internet application, where all of us contribute to enrich it with information. But there is another bigger aspect to be addressed with respect to such collaborative information. This might be applicable to wiki pages also where you keep on updating information. This aspect is of confidentiality of information. When you publish information on …

As of now, we know hibernate as object relation mapping (ORM) open source framework. A framework, that eases our life in interaction with database, it not only supports many databases, but also provides a robust framework for connections and other complex data operations.  It supports persistent data store interactions in both Java and .NET technologies in object oriented way.
As J2EE moved to JEE 5, it introduced ORM into it’s technology specification through Java Persistent API (JPA). This means, we have a specification that defines the rules of object relation mapping …

Eclipse’s more powerful yearly release is just around the corner. Called Galileo, this release brings many features which will ease our life while developing Java applications. Java IDE is always there, in addition to this IDE there are tools for JEE, JSF and Mylyn. Scheduled to get released on 24th of June 2009, RC2 version is available for testing. Complete feature list is available here . Here is abstract of features.

Improved tabbing – when a file is opened in a tab, and that file itself requires multiple tabs. If you …