How can you ensure that during development, all developers works on the latest database schema to reduce code conflicts? And during production roll-out, how can you ensure that applications on different servers are compatible and consistent with their respective database schema?

Ever seen a Java book with graphical images and humorous text on every page? You may think of it as a style of publishing books to attract readers. You may even think that it’s not worth reading. But you’re wrong! Head First Java 2nd Edition is one of the most fun and motivating Java books you’ll ever find. Check out my lil book review…

With the growing demand in integrating content like photos, music, videos & office docs into business & web applications, we need a content management system that is rich in features, flexible & easy to learn. The Java Community Process developed a solution to this trend – the JSR-170 & JSR-283, also known as the Java Content Repository (JCR) API.

When developing an application in a web server environment, the ease of use and startup time of the application are crucial elements for best performance. Due to this, the Hot Code Replace (HCR) debugging technique was developed to “facilitate experimental development and to foster iterative trial-and-error coding,” effectively improving…

I’m a Spring fan, but I decided not to use Spring in our recent project because I don’t want bulky jar files in our application but I wanted to have spring-like configuration. So, I’ve decided to write my own dependency injection code in less than 50 lines of code!! To simplify dependency injection, I’ve taken out most of the advanced configuration features and…

Today earmarks another event in Ideyatech’s history. Today, we announce the release of the third version of Open-tides. Open-tides is a web application framework contributed by Ideyatech to the open source community. It is a framework that can be used to quickly setup a web application using Spring MVC and JPA. Open-tides’ technology stack includes…

MoveAssist, one of Ideyatech’s long-term client, had won the award for Technological Innovation in Relocation. It is one of the leading software developers for movers and relocation managers. The award that has been granted to Robby Wogan, CEO of MoveAssist, is the very first of its kind in the United Kingdom. It gives due recognition to the quality of the…

Are you familiar with common mistakes such as checking equality of two Strings on Java using “==”? Or calling an instance method of a null object? They may look like obvious cases of bugs but many developers are unaware or unconsciously make these kind of codes. Static code analysis tools, such as FindBugs inspects and analyzes Java bytecode and…