Archive for January, 2009
More often than not you need your java program to perform an operation at a particular time. It gets trickier when the operation needs to be performed at regular intervals. There are a lot of solutions to implement a java “cron” of sorts available. There’s the quartz scheduler which has pretty much everything that you [...]
Spring Framework is by the most versatile framework for java applications. It can be used with any kind of application, be it an applet, a swing app or a web application. Spring transaction management is one of the most powerful features of spring. It manages your transactions for you with minimal code, infact all you [...]
I’m asked the difference between the two interfaces, Serializable and Externalizable more often than i’d like. It’s pretty simple really. Serializable does all the dirty work for you, it writes the object to the output stream on it’s own without you having to bother about anything at all. Externalizable on the hand makes you do [...]