Newest Articles For J2EE

Using iBATIS and struts
By John Henry Xu - Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:37:03 AM ET
In previous articles about iBATIS, we have made step-by-step instructions how to install iBATIS and use iBATIS in web application. To focus on iBATIS, we use iBATIS simply in a JSP file. In real applications, it is better move iBATIS code to some java beans. In this article, we explore the way of ...

Using iBATIS in web applications
By John Henry Xu - Wed Sep 14, 2005 11:28:52 PM ET
iBATIS, as a SQL mapping technology, has been used in many Internet applications to simplify data persistence. SQL mapping technology is simple comparing to other OR mapping frameworks. And newer technologies such as spring framework can use iBATIS in data persistence. The major reason that iBATIS ...

Using Struts and Hibernate (Part III)
By John Henry Xu - Wed Sep 7, 2005 7:13:12 PM ET
In articles of using struts and hibernates (part I and part II), I have demonstrated how to install and use hibernate with struts. However, we have limited our discussion of hibernate for creating new users. In this article, I will show how to update and delete user records with hibernate. Also the ...

Using Struts and Hibernate (Part II)
By Jack Xu - Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:21:36 PM ET
This article teaches how to use struts and hibernate framework in web applications. You will learn dynamic action forms and validation framework. You will use DynaValidatorForm, a subclass of DynaActionForm in this application. You should have completed the article "Using Struts and Hibernate (Part ...

Using Struts and Hibernate (Part I)
By Jack Xu - Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:46:09 PM ET
Struts framework has a popular MVC design for web applications. It separates web presentation layer from model, or data layers, by invoking a java servlets. It is easy to incorporate a variety of data persistence technologies, such as EJB, hibernate, or iBATIS, within struts. In this article, we demonstrate ...

Using Hibernate In J2EE Applications (Part I)
By Jack Xu - Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:48:44 PM ET
Hibernate is an object-relational persistence framework that becomes popular in J2EE applications. In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to use hibernate in web applications. We will use Tomcat 5 and MySQL database in this tutorial. We assume you have installed Tomcat 5. And you know how to add ...

Effective Ant Build For Developers
By Jack Xu - Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:24:29 PM ET
Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool. It is platform-independent and it has been used extensively in java project developments. It is convenient to use ant in large java projects, since ant scripts can automate all the build process. For example, in a web application, ant scripts usually include ...

Introduction To Struts By Example
By Jack Xu - Wed Jun 15, 2005 2:01:15 AM ET
Struts is a project of the Apache Software Foundation. It provided a framework to develop Java web applications based on Model 2 approach, although one may incorporate it with EJB and JMS framework (Model 3) approach. The center idea of struts was using a well-known Model-View-Controller or the MVC ...

How To Build Custom JSP Tags (Part II)
By Jack Xu - Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:17:48 PM ET
In our first article about custom JSP Tags, we have shown the process of building a tag including 4 steps, namely, 1. Write a tag handler. 2. Write descriptor file 3. Deploy and register tag 4. Use the tag In this article, I will show a more complex example of custom JSP tag. This tag will show ...

How To Build Custom JSP Tags (Part I)
By Jack Xu - Thu Jun 9, 2005 11:59:08 PM ET
In Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Java servlets and JavaServer Pages are two important technologies to present dynamic contents to web users. Recently, JSP Tags have played more important role in web development. There are tag libraries such as Struts Tags, JSTL and Jarkarta Tag libraries. ...

Configuring SSL on BEA WebLogic Server 8.1
By SAMS - Thu Jun 2, 2005 11:25:00 PM ET
If you're planning to build a business web site, security is extremely important, regardless of whether you're creating a corporate intranet or a public site. One of the easiest ways to ensure basic security for users is to configure your web server to use the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. SSL ...

Java Capabilities of Oracle 9i
By SAMS - Thu Jun 2, 2005 10:10:06 PM ET
Introduction Several important features have made Java a very powerful language, and it has quickly become a key component of developing and deploying e-business applications. These are some of the Java features that are useful in implementing e-business systems: