iBatis an alternative to Hibernate

I've been playing around with Persistence frameworks lately, after been inspired by a Hibernate, which is a de facto standard is used in lot of places. While Hibernate is certainly an excellent technology, it is not always the right choice. In other words, Hibernate works very well if your data model is well in sync with object model, because ORM solutions like Hibernate map object to tables. However, let’s suppose data model is not in sync with object model, this is where the model starts breaking down. ››› Read More
Anand K Reddy, DevelopersBook.com - Dec 01,2007

Hibernate Vs iBatis

These are the few questions that continuously get asked in most of forums. What’s really difference between two and really more importantly when should I use one over the other. Its pretty interesting question because there are major differences between iBatis and Hibernate. ››› Read More
Anand K Reddy, DevelopersBook.com - Nov 28,2007

Let Spring Manage JSF Beans

The conventional ways of integrating JavaServer Faces and Spring is using the delegating resolver and the other is to the FacesContextUtils. With the help of Spring 2.0 custom scopes we have different appraoch. ››› Read More
Anand K Reddy, DevelopersBook.com - Nov 25,2007

A first look at Shale Framework
Shale is such a framework, that builds on JSF's strengths.. It leverages JSF extension points to provide additional functionality such as application event callbacks, dialogs with conversation-scoped state, annotation-based functionality to reduce configuration requirements, support for remoting, while leveraging the standard application controller facilities of JSF. This article will introduce the basic features of Shale, and walk you through building a very simple application using Shale and Java Server Faces technology. ››› Read More
Anand K Reddy, DevelopersBook.com - July 02,2007

JavaServer Faces (JSF) Integration with Spring Framework
The Spring Framework is a popular application framework for Enterprise Java applications, featuring a powerful Dependency Injection mechanism (also known as Inversion of Control) for creating and configuring "plain old Java objects" (POJOs) on the fly. Since verson 1.1.5, Spring has included an expression evaluation mechanism for integration with JavaServer Faces. ››› Read More
Anand K Reddy, DevelopersBook.com - June 01,2007

AJAX Form Validation Using DWR and Spring
The DWR (Direct Web Remoting) project is an open source solution under the Apache license for the developer who wants to use AJAX and XMLHttpRequest in an easy way. It has a set of JavaScript functions that remove the complexity from calling methods in a Java object running on the application server from the HTML page. It handles parameters of different types and helps keep the HTML code readable. ››› Read More
Anand K Reddy, DevelopersBook.com - May 10,2007

Integrating Hibernate with Spring
The Spring Framework provides integration with Hibernate, JDO, Oracle TopLink, iBATIS SQL Maps and JPA: in terms of resource management, DAO implementation support, and transaction strategies. For Hibernate, there is first-class support with lots of IoC convenience features, addressing many typical Hibernate integration issues. ››› Read More
Anand K Reddy, DevelopersBook.com - May 01,2007