Create an executable jar using maven shade plugin

Last week, while working on a requirement to create an executable jar in our project, I tried the following two maven plug-ins: * Maven assembly plug-in * Maven onejar plug-in Using these plug-ins I was able to successfully create an executable jar but my executable was dependent on some Spring framework jars for its effective [...]

Android UI development tools

Today I had a pleasure of attending one of Google’s Android Developer Conference by Rajdeep Dua ,Thanks to Rajdeep Dua I came to know some of android tools (by Google as well as third party not integrated with IDE)  available in the market to enhance UI application development. Before we start looking through the list of [...]

Exploring Android Charting and Graphs solutions

In one of the Android applications that I was creating the requirement was to have graphs and charts to present the data in a meaningful way to the user. With no direct charting API support in Android to address graphs and charts creation, I explored few other possible solutions. This blog does not focus on [...]

IZPack : Service did not start

Hello, Some time back I was trying to configure a service via IzPack installer ( a JavaTM based installer builder tool, that helps you create an installer for your software. It can run on any Operating System supported by a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) compliant with the Sun JVM 1.5 or higher) Configuring a service [...]

An introduction to soapUI for testing web services

soapUI is a free, open-source desktop application specifically designed to inspect, develope, invoke and test WSDL or REST based web services.In this blog I have tried to introduce the tool and list some of its most useful features.In my successive blogs I will dig deeper and try to explain how it can be used to [...]