What is Mock, Assert, JUnit, and how are they related? Prelude I’m very late to this game of unit testing. But of late, the guilt has been eating me up. I do see the benefit of it in flashes, but...

Post date: Nov 29, 2008 4:26:14 AM AOP, Proxy, and Metadata [Read this article] AOP in its basic spirit, can be realized if you understand the nice capabilities that are possible when we can inte...

Prelude It has been a long gap, due to my work pressure. One of the goal in my work was to design a server side framework, to allow new services to be plugged into the system. Well, are Java serve...

Post date: Nov 28, 2008 12:39:8 PM The .sng file parser has been simplified drastically. Importantly, modified the old Listener like EventManager model to the, standard and, in this case, the very...

Introduction Ragam is a tune-defining concept in Indian classical music, especially in South India. This program accepts a coded song in a custom .sng (song) file, and plays it using Java MIDI pac...

Post date: Nov 29, 2008 4:23:41 AM Using Unicode [Read this article] In Unicode character set, each character is represented by two bytes. Thus a Unicode string is a sequence not of individual by...

A first hand report on using Unicode with XML The New Code: Unicode As we all know, Unicode is the standard for encoding characters of different languages, independent of the Programming Langua...

Post date: Nov 29, 2008 4:22:31 AM J2ME and Java Landscape Read this article It all started with the good fortune of getting a Nokia 6610 handset for GPRS connection, thanks to my employer. Thoug...

How J2ME programming model relates to J2SE, J2EE and Java in general? Prelude It all started with the good fortune of getting a Nokia 6610 handset for GPRS connection, thanks to my employer. Thou...

Using Java Zip API to automate your compression chores (*K Venu, S V Ramu) Motivation Downloading and browsing lot of stuff from Internet is one part, while storing and retrieving relevant inform...