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Getting Started with Android – Creating Android Application
Published on 20 Jan, 2011 at 20:01 in Android, Articles, Featured, Mobile Computing, Upcoming technology trends and reviews | Viewed 28,824 views times | 12 Comments
This is ongoing blog on Getting Started with Android. In earlier blog, I provided an architecture overview of android application. In this blog, I would setup the development environment for Android and create a simple hello world application.
I would say are two ways you could develop Android applications-
The web development way: – Utilizing your web development skills like- HTML, CSS 3 and JavaScript (JQuery libraries). For…Looking at Enterprise OSGI and Apache Aries
Published on 9 Oct, 2010 at 15:41 in Featured, OSGI, Upcoming technology trends and reviews | Viewed 8,703 views times | 1 Comment
Apache Aries is an open source project for creating Enterprise OSGI Applications. Enterprise OSGI is all about using OSGI concepts, programming model and technologies in Enterprise Java space in a standard way, like JPA, JTA, JMX and so on.
With Enterprise OSGI, you also need to provide some way of dealing with dynamic nature of OSGi applications, where osgi components can activated or deactivated at any time ,managed and wired…
Selecting a rich user interface technology
Published on 12 Aug, 2010 at 22:46 in Articles, Upcoming technology trends and reviews, Web 2.0 | Viewed 8,081 views times | 9 Comments
User interface is one of the key external visible faces for any application. Getting the user interface design right and picking up a rich user interface technology is the key for a successful project. Selecting a Rich user interface technology depends on various criteria. In my view, some of key criteria for selecting a Rich user interface technology include the following -
Tooling and debug environment. Remoting technology support. Support for unit…Looking at Apache Wink JAX-RS framework
Published on 9 Aug, 2010 at 18:30 in Articles, Featured, REST, Upcoming technology trends and reviews, Web 2.0, Web Services | Viewed 10,419 views times | 22 Comments
Apache Wink is a Java based framework for building RESTful applications. It provides implementation of JAX-RS specification and is currently under Apache incubation.
Apache wink provides a service module for developing JAX-RS compatible RESTful services and client modules for creating RESTful clients. Apart from JAX-RS standard representations, Apache Wink provides and ability to expose resources using various representations formats like RSS, Atom and CSS formats.
From the official site -
“Apache Wink…
Looking at SpringRoo framework
Published on 2 Jul, 2010 at 22:52 in Articles, Featured, Upcoming technology trends and reviews | Viewed 14,614 views times | 17 Comments
Spring Roo is a lightweight developer tool for rapid java application development. The recent Spring Roo 1.1.0.M1 release allows developers to build working web applications – complete with a Google Web Toolkit (GWT) front end.
I tried a quick prototype using Spring Roo 1.1.0.M1 release. My initial impression was it was good for prototype mode and speed starting new applications, which can be extended further. I still need to understand…
Twitter to launch its own shortening url service
Published on 19 Jun, 2010 at 17:57 in Articles, Upcoming technology trends and reviews | Viewed 2,705 views times | 10 Comments
I was reading an article that very soon Twitter would launch its official link shortening service for all users. The URL would be something like t.co/naveenbalani.com/dynamicbpm. Instead of a cryptic url , you should be able to create a human readable url (limit is around 20 characters) containing your original link and meta keywords.This is great as a user would know which site he is heading. This should avoid…