Historically we have seen the success of plug-in based products like Mozilla
Firefox and Eclipse IDE where new content can be plugged-in at runtime to
augment software functionality. In plug-in based architecture there is
always a base container implementation where other components are added as
plug-ins to extend its functionality; however, in these solutions there are
no extension points exposed in added plug-in components to interact or bind
them together. In this article I discuss the details of a pattern that is a
hybrid of plug-in and event-driven architecture to integrate individual
plug-ins together to come up with a Plug-in Integrator Pattern. This
pattern leverages the benefits of both of these well-known architectures to
provide an optimal solution to build... (more)
Adobe Flex has gotten the Web2.0 development by storm and we see lot of
Web2.0 Flex-based implementations these days. There are a lot of complex
enterprise applications being developed in Flex. Many of these applications
are getting huge in size and often take a lot of time to download in the
client browser to run.
With time when these applications get more complex due to additional featur... (more)
Flex has gotten popular lately because of its rich GUI capabilities. It also
comes in handy with HTTPService and Web Service components connecting to
back-end servers to fetch and update data. But using this mechanism to talk
to the back-end server requires formulating a unique service object from the
Flex side, making a request, and getting back data from the back-end either
in XML or p... (more)
Historically, the progress of Web-based applications and the diverse nature
of information from different Web applications ushered in the need to unify
content to a single point of access: the Web portals.
There are several Web portal frameworks being developed in both the J2EE and
.NET camp to unify Web content and provide end users with a more efficient
environment to interact with the ... (more)
Enterprise applications such as banking, healthcare, and so on still use flat
files to import/export data between applications. Flat files contain
machine-readable data that is typically encoded in printable characters.
There is a growing need for these applications to interact with XML-aware
applications and Web services, and to satisfy this need these applications
must convert flat fil... (more)
Indroniel Deb Roy works as an UI Architect for BlueCoat Systems.He has more than 10 years of development experience in the fields of J2EE and Web Application development. In his past he worked in developing web applications for Oracle, Novell, Packeteer, Knova etc. He has a passion for innovation and works with various Web2.0 & J2EE technologies and recently started on Smart Phone & IPhone Development.
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