10 Best Java Web Development Framework

java1There are a majority of enterprises running Java applications and working on Java web development framework. What remains to be seen is that a number of companies are tied to the conventional web development framework and  haven’t actually started to anticipate what could be the best Java web development framework. Even the JavaOne might hold no unified voice for what web framework is best. There are several easy to use Java web frameworks that are out now a days, and they are too many. Essentially choosing the best web development framework has become more intricate, specifically due to three reasons. On a broader perspective, the web technology landscape has undergone a sea change; far more choice of technology; and changing requirements for modern web applications. After an extensive research we assorted the 10 best Java web development framework that we would like to share with you.

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How to Run PHP in JSP/JAVA

quercusphpWith Apache Tomcat developers can enable PHP only in one web application and run it globally for all applications under tomcat. Generally, PHP is said to have several orders of magnitude more open source code and projects. Those developers favoring the Resin application server have the ubiquitous of PHP. Implementing PHP in Java would benefit both the PHP users and pure Java users. The developers can use the Java EE 5 platform-compliant Web container in Web Server to build reliable and scalable Web applications that are highly demanded.  Here's a comprehensive article that shows you how to run PHP in Java as well as JSP/Servlet-PHP integration options.

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Java EE 6 Features Overview

javaee6Java EE 6 arrives as a big leap transforming into an ideally simple, streamlined and well-integrated platform. Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) has grown over the years since its in 1999. After years of development the Java EE platform has accumulated a chunk of outdated APIs that are not well supported or not widely deployed.  Improving over the past two version, the Java EE 6 mainly focuses on providing ease of development and support for the third party frameworks.

The platform has undergone a significant upgrade with a new set of innovative features - brand new APIs like WebBeans 1.0 and JAX-RS 1.1 and servlet 3.0, clearly reflected in the technology. Additionally, some minor changes have been incurred such as standardizing global JNDI naming, the major themes for JSR 316 are pruning and profiles. Let's have a broader view of the newly incorporated features in Java EE 6.0.

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Enterprise Network Computing: OpenNMS Vs. Nagios: A Comparative Study

networkcomputing OpenNMS is the first enterprise-grade network management platform to be developed under the open-source model. The goal is for OpenNMS to be a truly distributed, scalable platform for all aspects of the FCAPS network management model, and to make this platform available to both open source and commercial applications. Nagios is a popular open source computer system and network monitoring software application. It watches hosts and services, alerting users when things go wrong and inform them again when the network works better. I have been trying to do a comparison of what Nagios does compared to openNMS after my  brief association in a test environment with our corporate network department. Full article (352 words) »

Top 10 Java Trouble Ticket System

issue-trackingFor those without any knowledge of trouble ticket system, let's being from the scratch. Trouble ticket system (aka. issue tracking system) is a software package  designed to manage and maintain lists of issues, required in an organization. Ticket's are files contained within the trouble ticket system that contain information about support interventions reported by the technical support staff or any other third party on behalf of an end-user. The software is most commonly used in customer support services to create, update, and resolve the issues reported by customers, or other issues reported by the employees of the organization. The system also encloses a knowledge base containing information on each customer, solutions for common problems, and other such data.

The entire trouble ticket system has a workflow. For a better understanding let's take a small demo. Suppose a customer support technician receives a email, telephone call, or any other communication from a customer complaining about a problem. This might also be in the form of an authentic error reporting. In case, the technician finds the problem is real, he gathers entire information about the problem in details and creates an issue in the system, entering all the relevant data provided by the customer. As work on the issue progresses, the system is updated with the solution to fix the problem. Once the issue is completely solved, it is indicated as resolved in the issue tracking system. There are several trouble ticket system out there in the market, but most of them are on the higher end of price. We decided to focus on the open source issue tracking systems that involve minimal expenditure and maintenance cost. After a thorough research we assorted a list of top 10 Java trouble ticket system.

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Top 10 Java Caching Sotware

javacaching2Java caching software is written in java for server-side java applications. Caching is an effective technique when it comes to long-running applications such as servlets, JSPs and GUI applications. It speeds up the dynamic web applications by providing a means to manage cached data of various dynamic natures. At times its inevitable to cache some Java objects, especially the data that takes too much time to recreate when it is not changed frequently. For the ease of use these can be objects in a hash table, given that it takes the ever-increasing memory footprint of your application. This allows you to expire the older objects in the hashtable time and again, since you can recreate them whenever needed. The caching solutions are most useful for the high read, low put applications. Java caching solutions can also benefit dynamic content and reporting systems.

Now there are sites that construct pages, dropdowns, or common search results form a database repeatedly at regular intervals. The performance and scalability of these sites can be bettered through caching. Java caching software reduces the latency time and removes the snags from database. After an extensive, I aggregated the top 10 Java caching software.

  1. Ehcache
  2. OScache
  3. JBoss Cache
  4. S3C Java Serverside Cache 2.1
  5. Shiftone
  6. Jofti
  7. JCS
  8. Open Terracota
  9. Shop.com Cache System
  10. JSR 107: Jcache

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Google App Engine Support Java And How To Get An Early Invite Free

Google app engine javaThe breaking news today is Google App Engine has finally announced support for Java. The Java environment provides a Java 6 JVM, a Java Servlets interface, and support for standard interfaces to the App Engine scalable datastore and services, such as JDO, JPA, JavaMail, and JCache. Standards support makes developing your application easy and familiar, and also makes porting your application to and from your own servlet environment straightforward.

The Google Plugin for Eclipse adds new project wizards and debug configurations to your Eclipse IDE for App Engine projects. App Engine for Java allows you to develop and deploy web applications using Google Web Toolkit (GWT). The Eclipse plugin comes bundled with the App Engine and GWT SDKs.

Today they announced new features which will get support Java runtime, integration with Google Web Toolkit, and a Google Plugin for Eclipse, giving you an end-to-end Java solution for AJAX web applications. They are building up a plugin which will present to you feature-rich Java environment with the simplicity of Google's interface. It provides the current App Engine API's and wraps them with standards where relevant, like the Java Servlet API, JDO and JPA, javax.cache, and javax.mail. It also provides a secure sandbox that's powerful enough to run your code safely on Google's servers, while being flexible enough for you to break abstractions at will.

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LFC Hosting Review: Java Shared Web Hosting Provider

lfchostinglogo1Web hosting companies are the first visitors you will have when you intend to make a website of your own. There are so many of them in the internet that its pretty normal to get confused with too many options available. Also, it depends upon the kind of site you want to host. A personal website may normally take only a starter's plan to start with, whereas corporate and enterprise setups need their namesakes. So we are starting a series of reviewing web hosting companies individually and then we will make a comparison of all that. For now, let's focus on LFChosting i.e. Loose Foot Computing.

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Apache Continuum - A Detailed Look at the Open Source Continuous Integration System

Apache Continuum, a partner to Apache Maven, is a continuous integration server, which runs and builds on a configurable schedule.So what does this term 'Continuous Integration' mean? The term continuous integration refers to a process that builds and tests code on a frequent, regular basis. Many continuous integration systems monitor a source repository at regular intervals and trigger an integration every time someone commits a change.

An integration can be anything from compiling and testing a single project to the assembly and testing of a deliverable from multiple dependent projects. Among the benefits of continuous integration are the immediate identification of defects and the ability to guarantee that a project's build will succeed at any point in the development cycle. Each integration is verified by an automated build (including test) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible.

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Bangalore & India Java Leaders of the World? Should JavaOne Shift to India?

Top Java CitiesIt was well known that there is a significant amount of Java development in Bangalore these days. However it took me by surprise to find that it may actually be a world leader in terms of amount of Java and India too as a country. What was even more surprising is that USA doesn't figure in top 10.

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