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Backlinks play a very important role in determining your ranking position on Google, Yahoo and MSN. Obtaining quality inbounds link will influence your search engine rank immensely. One of the most used ways to obtain back links is to submit your link to web directories. Online directories exist for the sole purpose of providing quality links to web users to various sites categorized under

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Hypersonic SQL Database (HSQLDB) is a free database project written in Java, which allows database manipulation in a client-server architecture, or standalone. A great advantage of using HSQLDB is the possibility of aggregating database to our applications package. The database is multi-platform and occupies a small space on disk. Another characteristic of the database is the possibility of

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With Ajax gaining popularity day-by-day, i thought i should share this site with all the late starters. It is appropriately named Ajax Lessons.Note: image credits with ajaxlessons.com.

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Walking down the path of implementing Ajax, here's a neat tutorial on implementing in-place editing (just like Flickr). See screenshot (image credit 24ways.org).The Article | Found via Diggdot.us

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Here's a nice article on java.net on adding logging to your Java-powered Ajax Application.

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IndicThreads has covered our PuneJava meet held recently at Hotel Sun and Sand Pune, with photographs. Thank you Ashish for the photographs. Have a look.Technorati Tags: IndicThreads, PuneJava Meet PhotosBlogs linking to this article

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In an post on google blog, Adam Sah of the google team has announced the Google Home page API that allows developers to create modules that can be added to the personalizable Google home page.I took a quick look at it, the whole thing seems to be based on XML files (duh!) and scripts, like klipfolio can be written inline with the XML. Check out the developer guide for an example. Google has

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Java, once considered the elite programming language, the answer to all the enterprise problems and all that. But here's a thought provoking article by Business Week which feels that Java maybe losing ground to others like the open source LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) combo, Microsoft.NET, etc. What do you think ?Join the discussion. technorati tags: java, lamp, linux, apache, mysql,

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O'Reilly's new book "JBoss at Work: A Practical Guide" helps you learn to build a project using extensive code examples, and delve into all the major facets of J2EE application deployment on JBoss, including JSPs, Servlets, EJBs, JMS, JNDI, web services, JavaMail, JDBC, and Hibernate.This book will help you:- Implement a full J2EE application and deploy it on JBoss- Discover how to use the latest

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Thinking of using the power of Ajax in your project? Make sure you avoid these mistakes.Technorati Tags: Ajax Mistakes, Ajax, Web, GUI, Interface, ProgrammingBlogs linking to this article

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Kynesys Technologies Private Limited, Pune have arranged a training session covering "Eclipse and JSP 2.0" on 10th December 2005 (Saturday) at their office. This 2 hours session is FREE and starts at 10:30 am.This session is only for Java Developers with 1 year experience. For freshers, they are arranging another session, very soon. Registration for this Free Session is available on their

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The next release of the eclipse based Java IDE MyEclipse v4.1 will offer support for Ajax. According the Genuitec, this will be its first step towards web 2.0 offerings. See company post on this.

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If you've used Struts for a long time, you're probably used to sending static pages back to the client. AJAX offers a much richer browser experience, without requiring a complete refresh every time the user does something. Paul Browne shows how you can incrementally add AJAX functionality to an existing Struts application, without having to rewrite the server side to accommodate the changed

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Tomcat 5.5.9 is the default servlet container included with JBoss 4.0.2. It is deployed as a SAR (Service Archive) in $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/jbossweb-tomcat55.sar.Thanks to the modular design of JBoss, swapping out Tomcat for another servlet container is easy. Jetty is another option that is fast, mature and open source. Download a pre-build SAR, ready to drop in and run.Hat Tip:

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Laszlo is an open source XML-native platform for building Rich Internet Applications. Laszlo applications are written in the XML-based language LZX (XML and Javascript). These applications run on all leading Web browsers on all leading desktop operating systems. Frameworks like Struts handle the flow of an application on the server, while technologies like Laszlo push that logic to the client.

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I am just back from the PuneJava Meet at the Maratha Hall, Hotel Sun and Sand, Pune (held on Sunday, 20th Nov. 2005) and it was a grand success. The first session was by Ashish Kulkarni on Apache with JBoss. His presentation is available for download from our PuneJava Yahoo groups File section.The second session was by Harshad Oak on 'Java Trends'. He mainly talked on: AJAXSOAEJB3Scripting

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When a user sends a request to your server, the user's browser uses the URL information to create a request message. Amongst other information, the request message contains an Accept-Language header that provides information to the server about the preferred languages. This helps the server to localize the application. We can use JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL) to find the locale (represents a

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An Enterprise Archive File (EAR) is a convenient way to bundle up all the pieces of a full-fledged J2EE application. An EAR keeps everything organized.An EAR can contain at least one of any of the following modules. You can safely omit any of them, if they aren't needed.Web module - A WAR file containing presentation tier componentsEJB module - An EJB JAR file containing the middle-tier

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Technologies to Watch:A Look at Four That May Challenge Java's Development Dominance by Bruce A. Tate. The author has a knack for identifying successful technologies. He was one of the early developers who identified the emergence of the Spring framework; he predicted the demise of EJB 2 technologies a full year before the EJB 3 expert group abandoned the older approaches. In his new book, Beyond

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India is doing great on all the frontiers today, whether it is business or sports. However, like any developing country, who is developing so to say, signs of the cost we are paying for this development are starting to appear. See article: India's poor tackle toxic e-waste on BBC.We need to be careful and not repeat the mistakes that the west made on their way up.Technorati Tags: India's poor

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What's a Singleton? A commonly asked question. A Singleton is a class for which only one instance can exist within a program ie. only one single object of that particular class can be created in a program.Write a class in a way which prevents a casual programmer from creating more than one instance. Have a constructor, but make it private so that no other classes may call it. Now that we have no

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ONJava has published another article by Justin Gehtland and Bruce A. Tate titled, 'What is Spring - Part 2.' In this article, the authors show you how to use Spring to help you develop a simple, clean, web-based user interface. Spring is a lightweight container, with wrappers that make it easy to use many different services and frameworks. In part one of this two part series "What is Spring" the

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If you have been waiting for an opportunity to learn J2EE in a structured way without shelling out a lot of money on books and classes, this might be just what you were looking for. Sun Microsystems employee Sang Shin in his spare time, offers this advanced J2EE class, for free.Technorati Tags: J2EE Programming (with Passion!) Online CourseBlogs linking to this article

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Wondering what Boxing's got to do with Java? And I didn't mean Laila Ali, the first woman to win a World Boxing Council title, either! You wouldn't like to mess with her, would you?So, what is Boxing in Java? Boxing refers to the automatic conversion from a primitive to its corresponding wrapper type: Boolean, Byte, Short, Character, Integer, Long, Float or Double. Since this happens

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Do you hate to type Java code? Static imports helps you save some typing. If you are using a static class or a static variable, you can import them and save some typing. The simple example below, should clarify this concept: import static java.lang.Math.*;import static java.lang.System.out;public class MyMath5{ public static void main(String[] args) { // returns a double between 0.0 thro' (

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If you are an ardent fan of the 'Head First' series of Java books, then you will find Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates and Eric Freeman's blog Creating Passionate Users a 'must read'. Do definitely read their blog entry Sample Java Exam Questions where you will find 11 mock exam questions from their upcoming update to their SCJP study guide (for the Java 5 version of the exam).Technorati Tags: Head First

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Looking to earn some extra money, from the comfort of your home? RentACoder helps you earn this extra income using your hard-won Java technical skills. It lets you locate and bid on coding projects and questions from around the world! By completing a free registration, you can publicize your skills on the online resume system and receive emails as new bid requests come in.After you register, I

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The enhanced for makes it easier to iterate over all the elements in an array or other kinds of collections. Look at this simple example:public class EnFor{ public static void main(String[] args) { String[] cities = {"Pune", "Mumbai", "Bangalore", "Hyderabad"}; for (String name : cities) { System.out.println(name); } }}If we analyse the for code, then the following

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Announcing the 2005 ONJava Reader Survey by Chris Adamson -- The 2005 ONJava Reader Survey is underway. This is your opportunity to steer the site by helping them understand what you use, what you're interested in, and where you think Java is going.Technorati Tags: 2005 ONJava Reader SurveyBlogs linking to this article

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Some of the best ways, put together in one place. A must read for medium to experienced J2EE programmers. A good example is for EJB - Message-driven Bean Life cycle.The link.Technorati Tags: 100 Best Practices to Improve performance in JavaBlogs linking to this article

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Each developer has his/her own cheatsheet (most often used shortcuts, tips, clever hacks, etc). Here are 30 most often required ones.My favourite one, of course, is the one for Vim. But you might want to check out the ones for JSP, Java, Regular Expressions or SQL.If you have one, do share your pearls of wisdom ;-)Technorati Tags: Cheat Sheet Roundup - Over 30 Cheatsheets for developersBlogs

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Some excellent Java Resources are listed here. In case, you know of any other Java resource, please comment with the URL and a brief description.(a) Sun's Official Java site For everything Java.(b) Freshers Jobs and Placement Papers site claims it provides Fresher Jobs Walk-Ins, Technical Questions for Freshers, Aptitude Questions for getting a Fresher job, List of Companies offering jobs for

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I would like to post here, some Commonly Asked Definitions. If you would like more definitions, please post your comments to this blog entry.A. J2EE Patterns(a) Software Design Pattern: It's a repeatable solution for a commonly-occuring software problem. Definition credit goes to the book Head First Servlets and JSP.(b) DataAccessObject (DAO): The DAO implements the access mechanism required to

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Here are some bloggers who blog on Java and either hail from or reside in Pune, in no particular order.(a) Narendra Naidu(b) Null Pointer(c) IndicThreadsIf you do not know what a blog is and would like to know and start your own blog, then see this post.If you know of any bloggers who hail from Pune or are based in Pune, please comment to this blog entry and give me their URL.Technorati Tags:

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Although I know that this isn't *strictly* Java programming, but I felt I needed to share this article on Ajax - 'AJAX in Action'. Once you have read the article above, which is concise and to the point, you might want to check out this article from Sun, that answered the next question that popped into my mind - great! Now, how about an example that links it with J2EE. Read it here.Tip: For the

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This blog entry is for answering the question posted by Medha in the blog entry "Java Questions".Question: Why do we need to declare a specific package name for all the beans we intend to use in JSP pages?Answer: Even though the bean specification doesn't require it, I recommend that you always declare a specific package name for all beans you intend to use in JSP pages, via the Java package

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This blog entry is for answering the questions posted by Rahul in the last blog entry "Java Questions".Question: Why should we override the equals() method of the Object class?Answer: equals() is one of the methods of the class java.lang.Object and the default implementation is inherited by all the instances of all the classes. Important thing to understand with the default implementation of

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This post is a Work-In-Progress and I am going to post here, commonly asked Java Questions and their Answers. I am requesting all members to atleast post their questions, as comments.2nd Sept. 2005Questions by Vijay Jadhav(a) Write Java code to remove the trailing spaces in a string, without using the trim() method.Answer provided by Pushpendra Bharambepublic class TrimString{ public static void

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Interfaces Vs Abstract Classes In Java - Have you ever wondered why you should use interfaces instead of abstract classes, or vice versa? More specifically, when dealing with generalization, have you struggled with using one or the other? Anthony Meyer sheds some light on what can be a very confusing issue. Anthony Meyer is a technical director and a Java developer at Flashline.com. His

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Did you know that Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE 6.0), code name Mustang, is due in the first half of 2006 and that Dolphin, the Java SE 7 release is scheduled to follow Mustang in late 2007?Technorati Tags: Mustang and DolphinBlogs linking to this article

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It's surprising that sometimes even experienced Java programmers are not sure whether a particular word is a Java Language Keyword or not. The Java Tutorial has an updated list, that all can refer to.Technorati Tags: Java Language KeywordsBlogs linking to this article

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My very first blog entry on PuneJava blog. Nothing much to write here today. I hope to contribute something worth reading here soon :-).Here is something funny in Java. Try this programpublic class FunnyOne{ public static void main(String args[]) { int i = 0; System.out.println("i = " + i); i = i++; System.out.println("i = " + i);

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Some of you indicated that we start a PuneJava blog and so here it is. This blog can only evolve if you all contribute your time towards the same. Our member, Nikhil Palshikar pointed out that this blog could "collect and post articles that explained the fundamental aspects of Java and encouraged Java developers to read and understand these aspects. This in turn would take them far in their

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