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December 10th, 2009
In my Grails project we had a requirement that we needed to show graphs. Our client wanted to go for a opensource solution. We decided on the option OpenFlashChart. Grails comes up with its plugin for OpenFlashChart. With Open Flash Chart we can easily show barchart, line chart, piechart, Area charts etc. Let me explain very briefly how Open Flash Chart works. Basically in a web page we need to add this open flash chart which is the swf object. We should provide swf object with a data-file which contains the data it displays. This data could come from backend as well. When the web page is rendered the swf object tries to get the data and render the graph. Lets look at how we can use this in a Grails application.
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November 24th, 2009
Grails is a powerful technology to build web applications very rapidly. Groovy provides so many enhancements to Java objects. Metaprogramming capability is one of them. Grails uses this Metaprogramming capability of Groovy heavily to accomplish things faster the way it does.
This blog discusses the the Practicality of this Metaprogramming in the Grails projects based on my experiences.
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April 17th, 2009
SeamTest is a class we extend for the tests we write in our Seam application. It provides the seam environment in tests something analogous to WicketTester in Wicket Application.
I want to share some information on setting the property of Session bean, i came to know while using the SeamTest.
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January 2nd, 2009
I have just started learning Groovy few days back.The first thing that I have asked myself and searched for is 'Why should i use groovy over java and When I can use Groovy. ?'
I am following the book 'Programming Groovy'. The things I have understood regarding 'Why' part are
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May 28th, 2008
Great Indian Developers Summit was held from may 21-23 at Banglore, India Around 3,000 developers attended it. This is supposed to be the biggest developer's summit so far in India.
http://www.developersummit.com/
Climate was very good in Banglore despite the summers in India. Many reputed speakers around the world were there to give their presentations. It was like a kick-off before a champions league final , huge number of attendees, huge auditoriums, all set for a great summit for first time in India.
Sponsers included some big brands like Oracle, Msdn, Nokia, Adobe, Amazon, Yahoo, Infosys etc. The facilities were excellent and very well arranged and organised. Abhishek, Ganesh, Saket, Sunil and Vivek represented Xebia at the summit. Here goes the summary of the 3 days that we have been there.
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