May 2005

Advanced SiteMesh by Sunil Patil — Developing a web application with a consistent look and feel isn't easy, especially if parts of the site use different underlying technologies. But as Sunil Patil shows, SiteMesh offers a solution, with servlet filters called "decorators" that apply your appearance late in the game.

Parallel task execution in J2EE using the Work Manager specification by Dmitri Maximovich — As it stands, the J2EE specification provides no easy way to initiate the execution of parallel tasks. JSR 237, the Work Manager for Application Servers specification, changes this. In this article, Dmitri Maximovich introduces the specification, and provides an example of [...]

Wire Hibernate Transactions in Spring by Binildas Christudas — The proper handling of transactions across multiple data stores, supporting multiple application flows, is the kind of heavy lifting J2EE servers were built for. But what if you're using the lighter-weight Spring framework? Binildas C. A. shows how you can wire Spring and Hibernate together to [...]