Spring Integration : Configuring Mail Replier Adapter

On 17th & 18th November, 2010 in Xebia India we had an in-house training on basics of Spring Integration by the Spring Integration Guru – Iwein Fuld, himself. The training had an exclusive emphasis on the hands on practice of the basics of spring integration including Message Channels, Message Endpoints , Core Messaging Framework and [...]

Spring-Android: Spring for Android!!!

With an aim to ease the development of android applications Spring-Android, an extension to Spring framework is released.The framework with it’s first release brings in RestTemplate and commons-logging support for the Android based applications. This blog is the result of my experience while using the Spring-Android framework in one of the android applications that I [...]

Speech to Text Conversion in Java

This blog aims at creating a project for Speech-to-text conversion (Speech Recognition) on JAVA by using Eclipse IDE, Maven and a speech recognition system written entirely in Java language called Sphinx-4. Steps for Speech-to-text converter project setup: 1. Create a simple Maven project. 2. Add “http://repository.opencastproject.org/nexus/content/groups/public/” to your set of repositories in pom.xml 3. Add [...]

Create an executable jar using maven shade plugin

Last week, while working on a requirement to create an executable jar in our project, I tried the following two maven plug-ins: * Maven assembly plug-in * Maven onejar plug-in Using these plug-ins I was able to successfully create an executable jar but my executable was dependent on some Spring framework jars for its effective [...]

Understanding WebSocket handshake

In this blog I will discuss in detail the process of handshake in WebSocket Protocol. The first  step in WebSocket communication is the formal handshake between the client and the server. The discussion is based on the latest specification released on 16th August 2010 by I. Hickson. I will deal in detail the request and [...]