OpenShift Express — The Future Of RedHat PaaS

Last couple of days I was at JUDCon India conference held in Bangalore where I gave a session on OpenShift. The JUDCon India was the biggest JUDCon conference ever with more than 800 attendees. Sessions were mainly on topics — Infinispan, JBoss AS7 , OpenShift, CDI, Rules Engine, and other JBoss tools. I was mainly interested in hearing [...]

What made me to choose CXF over Axis2

My last assignment required me to expose soap based web service. While exploring I came to know that there are many types of web services, for example JBossWS, GlassFish Metro, Apache CXF, Axis1, Axis2 and likewise. All of them are widely used and were also promising to fulfill most of my requirements. Since I had [...]

Persisting relationship entities in Neo4j

Neo4j is a high-performance, NOSQL graph database with all the features of a mature and robust database. In Neo4j data gets stored in nodes connected to each other by relationship entities that carry its own properties. These relationships are very important in graphs and helps to traverse the graph and make decisions. This blog discusses [...]

MongoDB Replica Set on OpenShift Flex

As I am preparing for my JUDCon session on OpenShift one topic that I will be covering is setting up MongoDB Replica Set on OpenShift Flex. There are various reasons to setup MongoDB replication. The primary reason for replication is to ensure data survive single or multiple machine failures. The more replicas you have, the [...]

XML Parsers for iOS: libXML vs KissXML

XML Parsing on iPhone/iPad – Is that something your current sprint revolves around? Well if it does, this blog might help you. While parsing XMLs on device, we need to look into factors like performance and memory consumption. While googling, i found couple of XML parsing APIs including Apple’s native NSXMLParser. NSXMLParser looked like this is [...]