Why to choose JMeter for performance testing?

During my last project, I was given a task to choose one of the best tools for performance testing among open source tools available in market.  After evaluation and little research I came up with JMeter. I have thought of writing a small blog for those who are new to performance testing and are confused [...]

SOPA in US and Censorship in India: A cocktail to destroy Internet Freedom !

As US senators mull over the SOPA(Stopping Online Piracy Act) and PIPA(Protecting Intellectual Property Act) bills, the world stands witness to a historic moment. Almost all big IT companies like Google, Wikipedia, Facebook, Mozilla, Godaddy, etc are speaking in one unanimous voice against SOPA and Internet Censorship. The draconian provisions of SOPA/PIPA are bound to [...]

Software Development Practices that helped me become better

Xebia India takes great pride in paying high amount of attention to writing QUALITY code. “Doing it Right” is almost a religion here. For us the buck does not stop at showing a demo of working software to the client, but also ensuring the underlying code is written in the best possible manner using best [...]

Using Hibernate SafeHtml Validator In Application Running On OpenShift Express

I use Spring Roo to create sample applications for me. Spring Roo uses JSR 303 (Bean Validation) to validate the entities for invalid values. Today I created a very simple application — a simple PasteBin clone where you can anonymously create post or share text snippets. I wanted to validate that field post should not [...]

Running Spring Java MongoDB Apps on OpenShift Express Using Spring Roo OpenShift Express Addon

Last couple of years Spring Roo has been one of my favorite tool to rapidly build Spring applications for demo, POC, and learning new technologies. With Spring Roo Cloud Foundry integration you can not only build applications rapidly but deploy to Cloud Foundry public cloud with a couple of commands. In case you are not [...]