http://mauriziostorani.wordpress.com Information technologies with passion! Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:37:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Swing is a widget toolkit for Java. It is part of Sun Microsystems' Java Foundation Classes (JFC) — an API for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for Java programs. Swing was developed to provide a more sophisticated set of GUI components than the earlier Abstract Window Toolkit. Swing provides a ... http://mauriziostorani.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/application-framework-jsr-296-new-concepts-new-features/ Zend Framework is an open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 5 and licensed under the New BSD License. Zend Framework—often referred to as ZF—is developed with the goal of simplifying web development while promoting best practices in the PHP developer community. ZF's use-at-will architecture allows developers to reuse ... http://mauriziostorani.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/zend-framework-zf-concepts-methods-and-examples/ SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over computer networks, normally using HTTP/HTTPS. SOAP forms the foundation layer of the web services protocol stack providing a basic messaging framework upon which abstract layers can be built. There are several different types of messaging patterns in SOAP, ... http://mauriziostorani.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/simple-object-access-protocol-soap-methods-concepts-and-examples/ Representational state transfer (REST) is a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems such as the World Wide Web. As such, it is not strictly only a method of building what are sometimes called "web services." The terms “representational state transfer” and “REST” were introduced in 2000 in the ... http://mauriziostorani.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/rest-representational-state-transfer-and-restful-web-services-concepts-and-examples/ Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source Java software development framework that allows web developers to create Ajax applications in Java. It is licensed under the Apache License version 2.0. GWT emphasizes reusable, efficient solutions to recurring Ajax challenges, namely asynchronous remote procedure calls, history management, bookmarking, and cross-browser portability. Google ... http://mauriziostorani.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/google-web-toolkit-gwt-create-ajax-applications-in-java-examples-and-concepts/ JRuby is a Java implementation of the Ruby interpreter, being developed by the JRuby team. JRuby is free software released under a three-way CPL/GPL/LGPL license. JRuby is tightly integrated with Java to allow the embedding of the interpreter into any Java application with full two-way access between the Java and the Ruby ... http://mauriziostorani.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/jruby-java-and-ruby-concepts-methods-and-examples/ JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. It is based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language, Standard ... http://mauriziostorani.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/json-javascript-object-notation-concepts-methods-examples-and-security-threats/ Single sign-on (SSO) is a method of access control that enables a user to log in once and gain access to the resources of multiple software systems without being prompted to log in again. Single sign-off is the reverse process whereby a single action of signing out terminates access to ... http://mauriziostorani.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/single-sign-on-sso-concepts-methods-and-frameworks/ Until 1 hour ago I had same problems with Wordpress, image and other functionality didn't work. After done all the means in my power and ability, I decided to contact wordpress. Wordpress problem derived from Amazon Web Services dependencies! What's that? The Amazon Web Services (AWS) are a collection of remote ... http://mauriziostorani.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/amazon-web-services-overview-and-example-with-java-and-php/ Groovy is a language that has a syntax that's similar to, yet simpler than, Java. It's often referred to as a scripting/agile/dynamic language, but I would prefer to stay away from these adjectives as I feel they only end up confusing things. If Java is a wise middle-aged man, Groovy ... http://mauriziostorani.wordpress.com/2008/07/19/groovy-and-grails-concepts-examples-and-methods/