Fluent Consulting Blog: January 2003 Archives

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XML Data-binding

XML.com: XML Data-Binding: Comparing Castor to .NET [Jul. 24, 2002]

After the second article in this series was published, several readers said that they would like to learn the .NET way to map data from XML to a relational database management system. I'd like to show you that, but first I've got to lay some groundwork. In this article, I will show how .NET XML data binding works, while investigating the equivalent Java functionality. Java and .NET both have excellent support for data binding, and although they work in slightly different ways, each is just as valid and useful as the other. In my next article, I'll complete the exercise by mapping XML files to an RDBMS.

This entry was posted in the following categories: .NET , Data Persistence , Java , Open Source , XML

Posted by on January 27, 2003 | Permanent Link | Comments (0)

BeanShell

BeanShell - Lightweight Scripting for Java

This entry was posted in the following categories: Java

Posted by on January 24, 2003 | Permanent Link | Comments (0)

Why Java is Better than .NET

101 Reasons Why Java is Better than .NET

This post is bound to be flame-bait because the Java vs. .NET debate often turns into a holy war of sorts. Nevertheless, debating the pros and cons of the two leading application development frameworks will only help ensure that the future releases of each are both more powerful and easier to use, which will benefit everyone. It's interesting to note that many of the advantages of Java present in this list have to do with the huge number of open source projects supporting Java debelopment, many of which are in the process of being ported to the .NET framework since they have proven so useful. Good examples of this phenomenon include NAnt and NUnit. Food for thought.

This entry was posted in the following categories: .NET , Java

Posted by on January 14, 2003 | Permanent Link | Comments (0)

VS.NET and NAnt

NAnt - A .NET Build Tool

Gordon Weakliem has a post with good resources regarding using NAnt alongside Visual Studio .NET - check it out here.

This entry was posted in the following categories: .NET

Posted by on January 12, 2003 | Permanent Link | Comments (0)

ASP.NET unit testing

NUnitAsp - ASP.NET unit testing

NUnitAsp is a tool for automatically testing ASP.NET web pages. It's an extension to NUnit, a tool for test-driven development in .NET.

This entry was posted in the following categories: .NET , Unit Testing

Posted by on January 11, 2003 | Permanent Link | Comments (0)

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer

As part of its Security push, Microsoft has developed the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) application that helps identify common security misconfigurations. Version 1.1 is the second release of MBSA and includes a graphical and command line interface that can perform local or remote scans of Windows and IIS systems.

This entry was posted in the following categories: .NET , Security

Posted by on January 09, 2003 | Permanent Link | Comments (0)

Open Source Struts/EJB Code Generator

Announcing Open-source EJB/Struts Code Generator ModelJ

ModelJ is an open-source RAD (Rapid Application Development) tool that uses code generation to create complete J2EE apps using the Struts and EJB, deployable on jBoss. It outputs EJB 2.x deployment descriptors and session and entity beans, with business delegates accessible via Struts.

Check out http://modelj.sourceforge.net.

This entry was posted in the following categories: J2EE , Open Source

Posted by on January 09, 2003 | Permanent Link | Comments (0)

Free 'J2EE and XML Development' eBook

Free 'J2EE and XML Development' eBook PDF Download

TheServerSide and Manning Publications have teamed up to bring back the free pdf download of the 'J2EE and XML Development' book, by Kurt Gabrick and David Weiss. Th book teaches how, where, and why to use XML in each layer of a J2EE application. The book categorizes and explains many recent Java and XML technologies and the ways in which a J2EE application can best use them.

This entry was posted in the following categories: Java

Posted by on January 09, 2003 | Permanent Link | Comments (0)

J2EE configuration and deployment

Eric Foster-Johnson blogs about a J2EE missing feature: application customization. He discusses the common scenario of delivering an EAR or WAR to the client which will require minor configuration before deployment. Unfortunately the J2EE spec doesn't provide a simple way for this process to occur. Currently, the distribution archive has to be unpacked, configuration changes made to the code internal to the archive, then the whole thing has to be bundled up again and deployed. This inconvenience, while not huge, detracts substantially from the J2EE goal of dropping a single EAR/WAR file on the server and magically being deployed. Eric discusses some potential alternative solutions which warrant some investigation.

This entry was posted in the following categories: Java

Posted by on January 08, 2003 | Permanent Link | Comments (0)