There are many open source and commercial libraries for creating and manipulating PDF documents in Java. Based on my experience with these libraries, I have shortlisted three of the open source Java PDF Libraries which aides Java developers in creating PDF documents and also in manipulating them. 1. Apache PDFBox The Apache PDFBox supports the creation […]
JBOSS Cache for J2EE developers
What is JBOSS Cache ? JBoss Cache is a replicated and transactional cache that can be used to manage Java objects within a local process or across distributed processes. Need For JBoss Cache With today’s large-scale enterprise applications, where scalability and high performance are required in-memory caching has a lead role to play. An in-memory […]
The Evolution of Java Programming Language
Java was initially designed by James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton in 1991, the language was originally known as Oak which was later renamed to Java. Originally written for interactive television was later used in various embedded devices and with the advent of major releases and updates in Java, it was eventually used to […]
Developing apps around VMware vSphere made easy using vSphere Java
If you are building any VMware vSphere powered cloud based solutions or any other application around the vSphere virtualization suite, then it’s most likely that you will have a need to access or manage the virtual resources programmatically. One way to accomplish this is by making direct use of the standard VMware vSphere web service […]
10 new features which I liked the most in Eclipse Helios (3.6)
Last week Eclipse foundation delivered their 2010 installment i.e., the 3.6 version of Eclipse code named Helios. It was the largest release from Eclipse community so far as it involved 39 different project teams & 33 million lines of code (as per the data available in the official Eclipse web page). Helios comes with lots […]
From ‘*’ to just Java, Virtualization & Cloud Computing
Almost from last one year, I had not been able to post my thoughts on technology consistently at TechSagar. Since, I got bit busy with few other personal projects, I was not able to dedicate much time for blogging. Even when I had some free time, I spent most of it by watching some classic […]
Five minutes guide for creating your first Struts2 project using Maven2
Struts2 is one of the most popular Java web application frameworks for building modern web 2.0 applications. In spite of facing stiff competitions from other sophisticated web frameworks like Ruby on Rails, Struts2 has been successful in retaining the top position mostly because of the Java factor associated with it.