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June 23, 2005 As the web grows and bandwidth increases, people demand more from their online experiences. They want more content and graphics, smarter applications, and instantaneous responses. Until recently, web application developers -- and end users for that matter -- struggled with slow, unresponsive systems where entire pages had to be reloaded to update a single element. The web's architecture simply was not a convenient platform for demanding applications. Many solutions, like Google Maps, were not even possible until the wide-spread adoption of Ajax occurred. Read More |
December 2, 2005 If you are new to a Ajax and would like to learn more, this article was written for you! Use it as a starting point to learn the basics of sending requests, receiving xml responses and using DHTML to update inputs on an HTML page. It's actually pretty easy, we'll show you how. This example contains only 4 files and will work on web servers that support asp or php. Read More |
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June 23, 2005 Crystal Reports® from Business Objects SA has been a popular business reporting solution for many years. However, the licensing costs and lack of Linux support has led many report developers to look for an alternative open source solution. In this article we will show you how to write reports using MySQL as the database, JasperReports as the engine, iReport as the designer and a Java servlet to serve reports as PDF documents from Tomcat. Read More |
June 23, 2005 This article will explain how to use Maven to simplify your project management tasks. Maven is an increasingly popular tool from the Apache Software Foundation designed to make it easier to manage all aspects of a project, not just its build process. It enforces a number of project management best practices by default, covering topics as diverse as directory structures, to integrated testing during the build process, to maintaining up-to-date project documentation. For those tasks you can't accomplish using the default install of Maven, there are a wide variety of plug-ins. Read More |
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June 23, 2005 This article will demonstrate how to build a web application using the Struts framework and a few readily available tools. To demonstrate the techniques used, it will give you a whirlwind tour through a functioning, Struts-based webapp. Read More |
