Tutorials

Tutorials

• Use Sonar to Develop a Quality Feedback Loop into the Build Cycle

  Sonar is great for ferreting out quality problems in your code base.  But what if it kept the problems out in the first place?  With a little work, key Sonar feedback metrics can be integrated into the code/test/commit/build cycle.  Continue Reading

• Getting Started with WebSphere Portal

  This tutorial shows you how to get started with a fully installed WebSphere Portal 7 installation, and shows you how to configure portlets on the portal.  Continue Reading

• Hibernate 3.5 Without Hibernate: Migrating to the Java Persistence API

  Here we look at using the Hibernate framework as our persistence mechanism, but only referencing the JPA libraries in our code. This way, your persistence code is not bound to the vendor that implements your persistence architecture.  Continue Reading

• Creating DAOs with Hibernate 3.5 & JPA 2.0 Annotations

  This tutorial will help you learn how to create good DAO components that can be easily integrated into a Spring based application. This tutorial concentrates on the Data Access Objects. The next lesson will deal with Spring 3 integration.  Continue Reading

• Using Hibernate 3.5 as a JPA 2.0 Persistence Implementation

  Are you interested in JPA 2.0, and you want to use Hibernate as your implementation? This tutorial shows you how easy it is to take your JPA annotated components and use the Hibernate 3.5 as your implementation.  Continue Reading

• Hibernate 3.5 without JPA and Annotations: The Good Old Hibernate Mapping File

  This tutorial takes a look at how we can map entities and properties to database tables and columns using Hibernate 3.5 and the traditional mapping file instead of JPA 2.0 annotations.  Continue Reading

• Slingshot Yourself Into Hibernate 3.5 and JPA 2.0 with this Tutorial

  Get up to speed with Hiberante 3.5 and JPA 2.0 with this quick tutorial that will get you up and running, without any supurfluous talk or banter. If you want to learn Hibernate and JPA 2.0 quickly, this is the tutorial you need.  Continue Reading

• Solving the Constructor Ambiguity Problem with Spring 3 & Annotations

  When using an XML file, you run into all sorts of problems regarding constructor ambiguity. This tutorial demonstrates how using a @Confuration file can help eliminate constructor ambiguity problems.  Continue Reading

• On Promoting Dependency Injection with Guice

  Guice is known as an annotation based dependency injection framework. Being a relatively new player in dependency injection topic, Guice has quickly become popular thanks for its effort to make dependency injection as simple as annotating codes with...  Continue Reading

• A Simple Example: Google Guice Inversion of Control (IoC)

  If you want to get started with Google Guice, this is the place to start. The previous tutorial demonstrated how to get a simple environment configured, while this one shows you how to do some very simple Inversion of Control.  Continue Reading

• Getting started with Google Guice

  This is just a little tutorial that shows you what JARs you need to write some code that links to the Google Guice libraries at runtime and design time.  Continue Reading

• Spring Without XML: The Basics of Spring Annotations vs. Spring XML Files

  What is easier, Spring with annotations, or Spring with an XML configuration file. This tutorial looks at how the Spring IoC container can push POJOs back to a calling program, either through an XML configuration file, or through the use of a Java ...  Continue Reading

• Spring 3 Tutorial: Setting Up & Configuring The Environment

  Spring without XML files? - What an idea! This tutorial will show you everything you need to know in order to start developing and testing stand-alone Spring 3.0 applications.  Continue Reading