N, Varun

Hmmm,

Its been a week, since I made a return to my home town and I have still not started doing anything productive. However, sooner/later you will found out from my blogs, what am I upto?

I have already subscribed to some of the mailing lists and looking forward to gain momentum in my efforts to understand NetBeans Platform. Also, having developed an interest in Java Enterprise Edition and Adobe Flex SDK over past couple of months, I am looking forward to gain more knowledge in these 2 technologies and how to put them together in use, effectively.

This time around, its more about doing rather than writing/talking. So, stay tuned to blog as I will present blogs that you may have never read before.

See ya..

I have been busy lately thanks to my internship project, which almost got screwed up. I was working in a team of 4 people, where we were building a web application, that was initially deployed at JBoss Server using JBoss Eclipse IDE (old version). Also, we had to interact with the centralized Oracle Server to setup our database for running the website.

Now, having being trained on some of those technologies in past few months, I thought it won’t be much of an issue. However, at the beginning of this month, I faced some weird issues which had no obvious answers. There weren’t any silly mistakes either. We were facing some issues with Oracle connectivity. I am not blaming Oracle or the company where we did the project. But, mix of old and new technologies, turned out to be quite confusing resulting in lot of trouble.

We were running out of time, so we decided to migrate our database to MySQL Server and use NetBeans 6.5 IDE, instead of old version of Eclipse. In the last 2 weeks, we were changing IDE’s, Servers and what not? After surpassing many hurdles, we completed the project and deployed it on the intranet with no issues.

Technologies Used

Servers: Apache Tomcat 6.0 Server running on one system, while the MySQL Server 4.x running on some other system.

Integrated Development Environments: JBoss IDE for Eclipse (2.0.0.beta2), Adobe Flex Builder 3 (Trial Version) and NetBeans 6.5

Experience

Although, we faced many hurdles while we strive towards  the project completion, I picked up many skills and learned many tricks to speed up the development. It was an amazing experience and certainly enriching one! Stay tuned to my blog to learn a few.

Also, I loved using SQL Editor provided by NetBeans IDE, it was so easy to manage the databases. Whenever you “Execute Command…” any SQL query, the data shown in form of the table is basically a CRUD application. It looked like the Java Application, you could have made using Swing Application Framework in NetBeans IDE. In the following blogs, you would get to know more about SQL Editor. Now, internship is over and I am back in my home town.

…the OSS adventure continues!

I have recently developed an interest in Adobe Flex SDK and exploring it as much as I can. Actually, I am building a project using its 3.0.0 version with Adobe’s Flex Builder 3 (based on Eclipse Platform).

Hey, I know there’s also something known as FlexBeans being developed by some of NetBeans Community members. I haven’t yet tried it out, but have a look into it in near future.

Flex looks really cool, building up “Presentation Tier” for your Web Applications has become so easy, i.e. resulting in “Rich Internet Applications” (RIA’s). I also know there’s Java FX out there by Sun Microsystems and I have also started to look into it, due to their Java FX Coding Challenge and might soon be out with my own applications, instead of running the demo’s.

Stay tuned..