Introducing PHP 5.3 Features – Part I

PHP 5.3.0 was officially released on 30 June 2009 as the next-generation web programming language. The new release is one of the biggest revisions in the history of PHP. In this series I will introduce the main features. Part I deals with namespaces. Namespaces One of the most discussed features of PHP are the namespaces that … [Read more…]

Spring Jdbc Abstraction Layer

The Spring-JDBC component is a part of the Spring framework and is an abstraction on top of the standard Java JDBC API. It takes care of all the low-level API-calls and provides some base classes to implement the DAO-pattern. The only work left to the developer is: Creation of the statement Extraction of the result … [Read more…]

EJB 3.1 – Asynchronous Session Beans

The Session Bean Component Contract of the Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1 Specification (JSR 318 Proposed Final Draft) introduces the possibility of exposing methods of session beans with asynchronous semantics. What does that mean? For asynchronous invocations, control returns to the client before the container dispatches the invocation to a bean instance. When a client invokes an … [Read more…]

Useful little helpers making java developers live easier!

You may have some recurring development tasks while your daily work with java in different projects. For example you again and again write some small code that capitalizes a given String. Or you write an application with a command line interface and write code that defines and parses your command line options. Or you need … [Read more…]

Preventing Eclipse from opening MS Office documents in OLE editor component

I’m working with Excel and Word documents in my latest java project. On Windows plattforms Eclipse opens those documents with its own OLE editor by default. But I feel much more comfortable in using the Office apps to edit them. This can be done by right clicking on the file icon and choose “open with … [Read more…]