by XTIVIA | Jan 19, 2013 | Blog, Enterprise Java
MyBatis is one of the top notch ORM tools available. The MyBatis data mapper framework makes it easier to use a relational database with object-oriented applications. If you are familiar with SQL, the learning curve for myBatis is pretty much zero. If you want...
by Asier Del Pozo | Jan 17, 2013 | Blog, Databases, Portals
There are many tools for monitoring applications. One that we may want to use is JAMon, the Java Application Monitor; it can be really useful for discovering what the hell is going on in our application. We are going to view a quick introduce in it. But first, a...
by XTIVIA | Jan 10, 2013 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Liferay has out-of-the-box OpenOffice integration which is robust and works very well for converting web content to a variety of document formats, including PDF. However, this approach requires you to have a separate OpenOffice server running, which may not be desired...
by XTIVIA | Jan 9, 2013 | Blog, Portals
Twitter Bootstrap is a popular, easy-to-use front-end framework that not only allows for rapid prototyping, but also comes with a robust set of features that let you easily implement a responsive design. If you’re building a site from scratch, all you have to do...
by XTIVIA | Jan 7, 2013 | Blog, Portals
If you spend any time in blogs or in online I.T. press you hear Big Data, scalable solutions, and NoSQL databases all the time. One popular NoSQL database solution is Mongo DB. Mongo is “document-based”, not “table-based”. It...
by Kathleen Long | Jan 4, 2013 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
Every database holds different business data and has its own recovery needs. Unfortunately, there is not a single solution for all databases. There are many possibilities and solutions. For each database you are responsible for supporting you should be asking...
by XTIVIA | Jan 2, 2013 | Blog, Databases
I’m working on a data purging project for one of our clients and I’ll blog as it progresses. The first step was to find the oldest data in the database and let the application team look it over to decide what can be purged. I came up with the handy...
by XTIVIA | Jan 1, 2013 | Blog, Portals
In web development and marketing, A/B testing or split testing is an experimental approach to web design (especially user experience design), which aims to identify changes to web pages that increase or maximize an outcome of interest (e.g., click-through rate for a...
by XTIVIA | Dec 30, 2012 | Blog, Enterprise Java
I’m going to share some of my thoughts about multi-layer application API design. These are simple design problems, but I think it is good to have some discussion about them. Please feel free to present your point of view on these design items – I am eager to...
by XTIVIA | Dec 21, 2012 | Blog, Portals
This post briefly explains how to compile mod_jk on the Centos6.3 OS. Mod_jk is an Apache module that is used to connect Tomcat to Apache Http server or other web servers. System Setup OS: Centos 6.3 Webserver: Apache Http Server 2.2.15 Application Server: ...
by Barrie Shaw | Dec 20, 2012 | Blog, Databases
Informix software has a hard limit of 16,777,134 for the number of data pages that can be used in a single table partition. This is true for all versions of Informix software from 7.31 to 11.70. Unfortunately, if you hit this limit, the message that is...
by Kathleen Long | Dec 20, 2012 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
This feature in the maintenance plans in SQL Server seems to be either ignored or over used. Either people do not put this step into any maintenance plan causing MSDB database to grow large over time. Or they have this step placed in every maintenance plan not fully...
