HTML5 vs Native mobile apps

Do you want to expand your web based solution to serve smart phone/tablet users? If  yes, then you will have to opt for either a native mobile application or a web application. This blog provides for an extensive comparative study of both options and explains why HTML5 would prove to be a better solution.

Creating Seam-Hibernate Maven archetype

It all started when me and Vaibhav were getting our feet wet in a new project. The project was based on Seam and Hibernate. While trying to create sample projects involving Seam and Hibernate, we found most of the constructs were using Ant as build tool, thus limiting stuff like reporting, standard build lifecycle. Further they used [...]

Android : ListView With Images and Cursor.

Hello , I have recently  put my feet into the vast sea of Android by working on my first hands-on simple ‘Android Application’ which allows you to create and manage personal reminders like Birthday,  Anniversary,   home inauguration etc. and send customized messages based on the type of event. So in this application,  I encountered [...]

Work stands still…when Xebia enjoys their annual “Skiindia”

For these few days in a year everything comes to a standstill at Xebia. No standup, no planning meeting, no retro, people just wish to make the most out of these three days. It was Wednesday, Dec 8th and we were working usual but there was a flavor of excitement and anticipation in the air. [...]

Caching in JBoss Seam based web applications

Caching is one important area where you can drastically improve the performance of your web application. The data that needs to be cached can be of two different types : Rendered data (like html snippet,xml or JSON) and Java objects. JBoss seam provides few out of the box caching solutions for both types of data. [...]