The operations at the Court of Appeals have recently been modernized through the use of a new Case Management Information System (CMIS). CMIS is a web-based system that consolidates the operations of the appellate court into one easy-to-use and intuitive interface, backed by a singular central database.

Maven is considered by many only as a build tool. Maven, as defined by the project’s website, is a project management and comprehension tool. Aside from helping on managing a build, maven is also useful in documentation, reporting, managing dependencies, SCMs, releases and distributions.

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This article talks about the the different Java cloud providers and our first hand experience working with them. Our last project involves deploying an Open-Tides (Spring, Spring MVC, JQuery, Hibernate) application to the cloud and as such, we explored and played around with the different cloud providers.

Enterprise applications usually consists of multiple layers. Primarily presentation layer, business logic layer and persistence layer. The business logic layer is considered the heart among these layers, and this is where all processes and decisions take place. Requirements for this layer also changes more often than the rest of the application.

Version control systems has been an integral part of the software development process in the IT world. Industry players have regarded it as a best practice, and indeed the use of one has become the norm rather than the exception. Much like IDE’s, people understand that the benefits of using one far outweighs the cost…

I would like to share some real-world experiences in improving Hibernate and MySQL performance that we have encountered for the past couple of years. Some of the large applications we developed handles about 500 concurrent users on 8 gigabytes worth of data. For such application size, performance becomes a concern and optimal settings are necessary.

Starting the year 2012 right!!! New Year comes with new hopes and new dreams. Everyone has their own ‘New year’s resolutions”, new hopes for a better year ahead, new plans and goals to accomplish for the year. Even if the holiday season has just ended, the spirit of giving shouldn’t stop from there.