Introduction to Hibernate framework
Hibernate was started in 2001 by Gavin King as an alternative to using EJB2-style entity beans. Its mission back then was to simply offer better persistence capabilities than offered by EJB2 by simplifying the...
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Redirect your homepage /+ URL to your Google + profile
While lot of people are stuggling getting into this new social network, I was among the lucky one who got very early access, thanks to a friend working with Google. I loved Google+. After...
How to iterate HashMap using JSTL forEach loop
JavaServer Tag library is one of the most used JSP tag library out there. I have used it almost in all of my JEE based projects. The best feature probably is the Iterator API...
How to use Dropbox as an SVN repository
Recently, the popular Cloud based startup Dropbox is getting lot of attention on Internet. It is a free file synchronization/backup service where you can backup, save and share files. Dropbox gives 2 GB of...
Introducing Cache support in Spring 3.1 M1
Spring 3.1 M1 is out with some very useful features. One of the coolest feature in the latest release is comprehensive Caching support! Spring Framework provides support for transparently adding caching into an existing...
Create a Clearable TextBox with jQuery
Recently I came across a wonderful article by David Walsh on Clearable Textboxes with Dojo Toolkit [link]. This is a simple implementation where a clear button (x) added in a textbox which lets user...
jQuery: Get the Text of Element without Child Element
While writing code in jQuery, I often use .text() method to get the content of any element from DOM. This function is straight forward, it strips off all the html element from a selected...
Dynamic unread count Favicon in PHP
Gmail has just launched small but really useful feature in Gmail Labs. Dynamic Favicon showing unread email counts directly in your browser tab icon. If your browser window has lots and lots of tabs...
Your first Play! – GAE – Siena application: Tutorial with Example
Convention over configuration has became a buzz word these days. It is a software design paradigm which seeks to decrease the number of decisions that developers need to make, gaining simplicity, but not necessarily...
Tutorial:Saving/Retreving BLOB object in Spring 3 MVC and Hibernate
Working with BLOB / CLOB data types in database is sometime a trivial task. I found particularly when working with Hibernate 3 to store and retrieve BLOB objects we need certain things to be...