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		<title>Web-service learnings</title>
		<link>http://rash0208.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/web-service-learnings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rahul Sharma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last couple of projects I worked with web-services, creating them at some places and consuming them at others. I  felt that the standard tasks like creating a client, creating a web service etc are quite straight forward and there are enough resources if you get stuck. But with web services, it is some trivial  task that can &#8230; <a href="http://rash0208.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/web-service-learnings/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rash0208.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12936886&amp;post=748&amp;subd=rash0208&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>using EasyMock or Mockito</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 15:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rahul Sharma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been using EasyMock for most of time but recently I worked with a few people who were pretty much inclined to use Mockito. Not intending to use two frameworks for the same purpose in the same project I adopted Mockito.  So for the last couple of months I have been using Mockito and &#8230; <a href="http://rash0208.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/using-easymock-or-mockito/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rash0208.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12936886&amp;post=738&amp;subd=rash0208&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Embedded DB + AbstractRoutingDataSource + Hibernate = Data Router Application</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rahul Sharma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spring 3 contains a new feature of embedded databases. You could efficiently use this feature for an application at the start of a developement or for tests concerning db access or for smaller use cases of data storage. Basically using this feature you could start any of three viz. HSQL, Derby, H2. These all create  &#8230; <a href="http://rash0208.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/embedded-db-abstractroutingdatasource-hibernate-data-router-application/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rash0208.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12936886&amp;post=703&amp;subd=rash0208&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mixed approach of loading java.util.Properties using Spring</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rahul Sharma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week  I was attending a training where we were developing  a command line application. The application had  few static properties that were stored in a properties file and few of them where supposed to be generated when the application would start.  The application was using Spring, so loading the Properties file was a simple &#8230; <a href="http://rash0208.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/mixed-approach-of-loading-java-util-properties-using-spring/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rash0208.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12936886&amp;post=687&amp;subd=rash0208&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Use java.util.prefs.Preferences instead of java.util.Properties</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rahul Sharma</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rash0208.wordpress.com/?p=583</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A typical installer for an application needs to ask the user a couple of options and some of these are configuration questions e.g. the port on which the application should run, how it should run etc. The application has to remember these options and use them in every run. Standard manner of solving such a &#8230; <a href="http://rash0208.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/use-java-util-prefs-preferences-instead-of-java-util-properties/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rash0208.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12936886&amp;post=583&amp;subd=rash0208&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TIP! : use ScheduledExecutor instead of Thread for polling or infinite loops</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rahul Sharma</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rash0208.wordpress.com/?p=614</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Often we have the requirement of polling/ long or infinite  running loops that should continually run and then break on a certain condition. These loops are often constructed using the Runnable interface and are scheduled as separated threads using the  Thread class. A typical code looks some thing like this: public class TestSchedularService { long &#8230; <a href="http://rash0208.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/tip-use-scheduledexecutor-instead-of-thread-for-polling-or-infinite-loops/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rash0208.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12936886&amp;post=614&amp;subd=rash0208&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inserting and Indexing Bulk data in Neo4J</title>
		<link>http://rash0208.wordpress.com/2010/09/05/inserting-and-indexing-bulk-data-in-neo4j/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rahul Sharma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my previous blog I tried to import some 151K names in Neo4J using Transactions, but the db gave me all sorts of exceptions while importing this much data. I was then advised to use BatchInserter api to import data in bulk as the Transaction interface keeps data in memory untill everything has been committed. &#8230; <a href="http://rash0208.wordpress.com/2010/09/05/inserting-and-indexing-bulk-data-in-neo4j/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rash0208.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12936886&amp;post=590&amp;subd=rash0208&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring Neo4J, the nosql graph database</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 02:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rahul Sharma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After hearing much about Neo4J, the graph database, I started my quest of exploring it. My goals were simple, evaluate it and possibly refactor and use it at one of our graph solutions. Now  after the evaluation I have found out that it is quite  simple and efficient  to use, but there are certain things &#8230; <a href="http://rash0208.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/exploring-neo4j-the-nosql-graph-database/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rash0208.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12936886&amp;post=518&amp;subd=rash0208&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Implement your factory in Spring XML</title>
		<link>http://rash0208.wordpress.com/2010/07/14/implement-your-factory-in-spring-xml/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rahul Sharma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In most of our applications we create few objects from factories. For each of these factories we often end up writing custom code rather some kind of common component that can be reused. But reuse is one aspect of programming that we should strive for, rather writing code every time. Spring provides us quite a &#8230; <a href="http://rash0208.wordpress.com/2010/07/14/implement-your-factory-in-spring-xml/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rash0208.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12936886&amp;post=502&amp;subd=rash0208&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Easymock, Assert arguments of method call</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rahul Sharma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[EasyMock is used for mocking classes, interfaces and corresponding method calls. When you mock a method call you would like to assert the arguments of the call. Asserting an argument can be in terms of identical arguments &#8211; as provided during mock, similar arguments &#8211; similarity in terms of class/fields/order etc, or any other kind &#8230; <a href="http://rash0208.wordpress.com/2010/07/10/easymock-assert-arguments-of-method-call/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rash0208.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12936886&amp;post=472&amp;subd=rash0208&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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