Posted on
February 16th, 2011
New releases of compilers are getting more and more cautious on taking off the pain of too much verbosity and making the code look much more cleaner, understandable and easily modifiable. A major step that has been taken in Java side is introduction of annotations. Now that they have introduced annotations, plugging in an annotation processor still seems like an unsolved job requiring changes of the level of JVM startup arguments.
Read more »
Posted on
December 8th, 2010
In my previous blog over spring integration, I gave a hint over creating adapters dynamically. In this writeup, I would try to detail out the things a bit. Primarily spring is all about maintaining objects so called beans in the memory through a configuration file. A better design is the one which doesn't involve creation of objects in a way that its hard to find out where and why has it been created. Hence spring has gained a lot of popularity these days because it provides a mechanism to split the creation and binding part from the actual logic.
Read more »
Posted on
November 18th, 2010
In this blog I would primarily be talking about the Google BigQuery API. This has been a major step in the computing world to provide database as a service on cloud computing environment. BigQuery API has been designed to analyse huge amounts of data in really less timeframe. Interface of the service is quite straightforward, and involves HTTP calls to get data from the tables.
Since Google BigTable is a NoSQL oriented database, the format of BigQuery doesn't support JOINS but is able to support lots of other features like grouping, ordering, ranges, rejection and so on.
Read more »
Posted on
November 1st, 2010
Spring Integration is a quite useful framework which provides asynchronous messaging capabilities to a system. Unlike traditional frameworks like JMS, this framework can be plugged into any application. I will not be going into the details of messaging and 'How messaging works!' but an overview should be a good start.
Read more »
