Author: Arul Dhesiaseelan

Backend developer.

Server Consolidation – a smart move

This week's major acquisition announcements of Bea by Oracle and MySQL by Sun are considered significant milestone in consolidating J2EE application servers and open source database servers. The application server market is witnessing a strong convergence with 9 Java EE 5 compatible implementations vs 17 J2EE 1.4 vs 22 J2EE 1.3. The players are WebLogic … Continue reading Server Consolidation – a smart move →

Spring MVC Step-by-Step Tutorial ported on NetBeans/GlassFish

I was recently using the 1.1 release of Craig MacKay's Spring Module for NetBeans which supports the latest Spring Framework 2.5. Spring Framework tutorial hosted at NetBeans.org provides details on how to use this module in NetBeans IDE. Thomas Risberg's Developing a Spring Framework MVC Application Step-by-Step tutorial is a good one which explains end-to-end … Continue reading Spring MVC Step-by-Step Tutorial ported on NetBeans/GlassFish →

Interstate 80 and the Central Iowa Snow Storm – 12/22 aftermath

I was driving from Des Moines to Chicago on Friday 12/21 to send off my parents from O'HARE the next day. The seasonal affair was in effect as usual in Iowa. We started driving at 8am and we were navigating through the dense fog through I-80 and I-88. It was a black hole experience. The … Continue reading Interstate 80 and the Central Iowa Snow Storm – 12/22 aftermath →

Android SDK is out. Its Java, not J2ME:)

Today, Google released the Android platform SDK to the developer community. It comes with tools and APIs to develop applications on the open mobile platform using the Java programming language. It comes with an emulator and Eclipse plugin for development. The SDK is already available on Windows, Mac OS X (intel), and Linux (i386) platforms. … Continue reading Android SDK is out. Its Java, not J2ME:) →

Google bigbangs mobile industry with Android

Today, Google announced the most awaited mobile strategy backed by the industry's big wees. The momentum turned into Open Handset Alliance with more than 30 technology and mobile companies which developed the first complete, open and free mobile platform. Developers will have access to the Android SDK on November 12. Google unlocks the opportunity to … Continue reading Google bigbangs mobile industry with Android →

Top 10 Software Architecture Mistakes – worth a read

Recently, I was reading a 2-part article series by Eoin Woods on software architecture woos and worries, though he terms as mistakes. Part 1 addresses top-5 and Part 2 addresses the rest. He mostly shares his own experience as a software architect for years. Buckle up, never do these mistakes - It's The Law in … Continue reading Top 10 Software Architecture Mistakes – worth a read →