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Spring - WebServices

2011-06-01T23:55:00.001-07:00

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JNDI Introduction

2011-02-17T23:40:00.000-08:00

JNDI stands for Java Naming and Directory interface. It is a specification and API that can be used to access any type directory service. For example, a particular implementation of JNDI specification can be used to access the LDAP Repository. JNDI is used heavily by the J2EE Applications to store Application specific data and business objects.

Imagine the case of a J2EE Application, where it is having a Web module and a EJB Module. A Web module is used to handle the Http Request from the Browser client, process it and then will return the Http Response back to the client. It basically will contain a collection of Servlet components and JSP's. The Web module may use the EJB module for accessing the Enterprise Beans for data manipulation. Suppose, say that we want to store data that is common to both Web and EJB Module. Where we can store this information, in the Web Module or in the EJB Module?. It doesn't make sense to store the data in any of the Modules, because the data is a common data and it is not particularly restricted to any of the Modules.

Here comes the JNDI Repository. The Application Server Container will provide an implementation for the JNDI Repository for storing the global data (data that is common across the modules) and the clients (either the Enterprise Beans, or the Servlets or even the Application client) can use the JNDI API to query the information available in the JNDI Repository. It is also possible to store the Business Objects (like Session Beans, Message Driven beans) in the JNDI Repository. In this case, a Servlet may be the client in getting a reference to the Enterprise Bean from the Repository. It is not necessary for an Application Developer to manually store the Business Objects into the JNDI Repository as the Container will take care of all these things, like constructing the JNDI Tree, storing the Business objects etc.

java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError

2011-02-07T04:25:00.000-08:00

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError:no cb in java.library.path
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1413)
at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:775)
at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:835)
at codebase.Code4jni.<init>(Code4jni.java:61)
at test.main(read.java:10)This exception occurs when creating a new Code4jni object with CodeBase for the Java Programming Language. The exception occurs because the CodeBase native library (DLL on Windows) cannot be found. On UNIX and other systems, it can also be caused by a version difference between the run-time libraries on the system and the run-time libraries associated with with pre-built CodeBase native libraries. In addition, the -Xbootclasspath option will cause this.
Solution (Windows)Locate the DLL32 folder. This folder should contain one or more DLLs. Each of these DLLs represents an index file format (FoxPro, dBASE, Clipper). Select the DLL that corresponds to your preferred index format. Rename that DLL to cb.dll and place it in your the library path. To determine your library path, you can run this piece of code:
class getLibraryPath
{
   public static void main(String[] args)
   {
      String path = System.getProperty("java.library.path");
      System.out.println(path);
   }
}

Explaining java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space

2011-02-07T01:26:00.001-08:00

If you get the exception java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space

we need to set the following environment variable as follows.
Goto MyComputer - RightClick->Advanced tab- RightClick->EnvironmentVariables -RightClick->
SystemVariable-> Click on New button
and add the below.
Variable name is JAVA_OPTS and
Variable Value is -Xms1024m -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m

Weblogic Application Server Issues.

2011-01-27T02:14:00.001-08:00

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Top 10 Exceptions In Real Time

2011-01-25T07:39:00.000-08:00

There are 10 Exceptions that come freequently in real time usuage.
1.NullPointerEexception.
   -If we are trying to access a members(data variables or methods) of a class by using an object of the class,which has null reference.
Eg: public class NPETest{
   public static void main(String[] args){
   NPETest reference = null;
   reference.display();
   // this statement will throw NullPointerException.

}
public static void display(){
   // some code goes here...
}
}
2.ClassCastException.
3.NumberFormateException.
4.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException

Best 20 Java websites

2011-01-25T06:48:00.000-08:00

Here’s the best 20 Java websites in my collections, which provides latest Java news, articles and tutorials. If you have other great Java websites, please leave a comment to share with others.

1. O’Reilly Java

URL : http://www.onjava.com/
Since : 10-feb-2000
Rss : http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/feed/7?format=rss2
Description : O’Reilly’s, contains latest Java technology news, quality code snippets, full example and detail explanation.

2. Sun Developer Network (SDN)

URL : http://java.sun.com/
Since : 19-mar-1986
Rss : http://developers.sun.com/rss/java.xml
Description : The official Java developer website, always get the latest Java related news here.

3. Developer.com

URL : http://www.developer.com/java/
Since : 21-dec-1995
Rss : http://www.developer.com/icom_includes/feeds/developer/dev-25.xml
Description : Java news and articles in developer.com

4. Java.net

URL : http://www.java.net/
Since : 18-jun-1997
Rss : None
Description : The Java community website hosted by Oracle.

5. IBM’s Developerworks

URL : https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/
Since : 19-mar-1986
Rss : http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/java/rss/libraryview.jsp
Description : Java news and articles in IBM’s Developerworks.

6. Java World

URL : http://www.javaworld.com/
Since : 22-nov-1995
Rss : http://www.javaworld.com/rss/index.html
Description : Well-known Java websites, you just can’t miss this one.

7. Devx

URL : http://www.devx.com/Java/Door/6972
Since : 26-sep-1997
Rss : http://feeds.feedburner.com/DevxLatestJavaArticles
Description : Java news and articles in Devx.com.

8. TheServerSide.com

URL : http://www.theserverside.com/
Since : 05-jan-2000
Rss : http://www.theserverside.com/rss
Description : Java community to discuss the server side development.

9. Big Moose Saloon

URL : http://www.coderanch.com/
Since : 27-aug-2004
Rss : Vary in topic, visit http://www.coderanch.com/forums
Description : Friendly and popular Java forum.

10. Stack Overflow

URL : http://stackoverflow.com/
Since : 26-dec-2003
Rss : http://stackoverflow.com/feeds
Description : Well-known generic programming Q & A site organized by tags. Java topics included.

11. jGuru

URL : http://www.jguru.com/
Since : 16-sep-1997
Rss : None
Description : Java articles and Q&A style forum.

12. Official Java Tutorials

URL : http://download-llnw.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17409_01/javase/tutorial/
Since : Unknown
Rss : None
Description : The Official Java tutorials from Oracle.

13. Java Blogs Aggregator

URL : http://www.javablogs.com/
Since : 25-nov-2002
Rss : http://javablogs.com/ViewDaysBlogs.action?view=rss
Description : Blogs aggregator for many active Java-based blogs.

14. Java-Source.Net

URL : http://www.java-source.net/
Since : 25-feb-2004
Rss : None
Description : Java frameworks collection site. Well organized.

15. Java Lobby

URL : http://java.dzone.com/
Since : 17-may-1998
Rss : http://www.dzone.com/feed/frontpage/rss.xml
Description : The heart of the Java developer community.

16. Jdocs

URL : http://www.jdocs.com/
Since : 01-jul-2004
Rss : None
Description : Search engine for Java API documentation.

17. Java2s.com

URL : http://www.java2s.com/
Since : 07-nov-2004
Rss : None
Description : Many Java programming tutorials and source code example, well organized by categories.

18. Java Tips

URL : http://www.java-tips.org/
Since : 22-Apr-2005
Rss : None
Description : Many quick and Java source code example.

19. RoseIndia

URL : http://www.roseindia.net/
Since : 23-may-2000
Rss : None
Description : Collection of Java tutorials, cover wide range of Java topics.

Top 8 Java People You Should Know

2011-01-25T06:32:00.000-08:00

Here are the top 8 Java people, they’re created frameworks, products, tools or books that contributed to the Javacommunity, and changed the way of coding Java.

8. Tomcat & Ant Founder

James Duncan Davidson, while he was software engineer at Sun Microsystems (1997–2001), created Tomcat Java-based web server, still widely use in most of the Java web projects, and also Ant build tool, which uses XML to describe the build process and its dependencies, which is still the de facto standard for building Java-based Webapplications.

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7. Test Driven Development & JUnit Founder

Kent Beck, creator of the Extreme Programming and Test Driven Development software development methodologies. Furthermore, he and Erich Gamma created JUnit, a simple testing framework, which turn into the de facto standard for testing Java-based Web applications. The combine of JUnit and Test Driven Development makes a big changed on the way of coding Java, which causes many Java developers are not willing to follow it.

Related Links

News & Interviews

Kent Beck Books

6. Java Collections Framework

Joshua Bloch, led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features, including JDK 5.0 language enhancements and the award-winning Java Collections Framework. In June 2004 he left Sun and became Chief Java Architect at Google. Furthermore, he won the prestigious Jolt Award from Software Development Magazine for his book, “Effective Java”, which is arguably a must read Java’s book.

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News & Interviews

Joshua Bloch Books

5. JBoss Founder

Marc Fleury, who founded JBoss in 2001, an open-source Java application server, arguably the de facto standard for deploying Java-based Web applications. Later he sold the JBoss to RedHat, and joined RedHat to continue support on the JBoss development. On 9 February 2007, he decided to leave Red Hat to pursue other personal interests, such as teaching, research in biology, music and his family.

Related Links

News & Interviews

4. Struts Founder

Craig Mcclanahan, creator of Struts, a popular open source MVC framework for building Java-based web applications, which is arguably that every Java developer know how to code Struts. With the huge success of Struts in early day, it’s widely implemented in every single of the old Java web application project.

Related Links

News & Interviews

3. Spring Founder

Rod Johnson, is the founder of the Spring Framework, an open source application framework for Java, Creator of Spring, CEO at SpringSource. Furthermore, Rod’s best-selling Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development (2002) was one of the most influential books ever published on J2EE.

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News & Interviews

Rod Johnson Books

2. Hibernate Founder

Gavin King, is the founder of the Hibernate project, a popular object/relational persistence solution for Java, and the creator of Seam, an application framework for Java EE 5. Furthermore, he contributed heavily to the design of EJB 3.0 and JPA.

Related Links

News & Interviews

Gavin King Books

1. Father of the Java programming language

James Gosling, generally credited as the inventor of the Java programming language in 1994. He created the original design of Java and implemented its original compiler and virtual machine. For this achievement he was elected to the United States National Academy of Engineering. On April 2, 2010, he left Sun Microsystems which had recently been acquired by the Oracle Corporation. Regarding why he left, Gosling wrote on his blog that “Just about anything I could say that would be accurate and honest would do more harm than good.”

Related Links

News & Interviews

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Tomcat web Server Issues

2011-01-25T06:11:00.000-08:00

Issue 1.
Sometimes we need to find out what is our Tomcat version installed in our server. We can check Tomcat version with following command version.bat, this version.bat is located at tomcat bin folder

C:\tomcat\bin>version.bat

Using CATALINA_BASE: "C:\tomcat"

Using CATALINA_HOME: "C:\tomcat"

Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: "C:\tomcat\temp"

Using JRE_HOME: "C:\java"

Using CLASSPATH: "C:\tomcat\bin\bootstrap.jar"

Server version: Apache Tomcat/6.0.26

Server built: March 9 2010 1805

Server number: 6.0.26.0

OS Name: Windows XP

OS Version: 5.1

Architecture: x86

JVM Version: 1.6.0_18-b07

JVM Vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.

Issue 2.
Some times we may forget the port number of Tomcat server installed.In such a case you can do the check for tomcat port by following below steps.

a. Go to directory where you installed the Tomcat Server and find the 'conf' directory.
Eg: C:\tomcat5.5\conf

b. Inside the conf folder you can find the server.xml file, you just open it and search for the value of Connector Port which is nothing but your tomcat server port.

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