Vaadinator generates a vaadin-based User Interface (both mobile and Desktop), backend and testing facilties from an annotated Domain class. It borrows much from the Domain Driven Design idea. Our intention is to get people productive with vaadin and excited about vaadin – even those who never worked with it before. Vaadinator is free and open source (Apache 2.0-licensed).
Mobile Solutions
AngularJS in WARs – The Case of the Session Timeout
AngularJS is a great framework to build modern web applications. Java EE offers a rich and powerful environment to build reliable, scalable, and secure server applications. The combination of both worlds is straight forward: The web archive (WAR) contains all the HTML pages and the JavaScript code. The access to the server is done using JAX-RS.
Also the access control can be implemented using the standard Java EE tools. Using form-based authentication, a user first has to enter login and password before he can access the web pages. In addition to the web pages the servlet used by the AngularJS application can be secured in the same way.
That should solve all problems, am I right? Almost. What is not covered by default is the handling of session timeouts. When a session times out the user is redirected to the login page to establish a new session. This is fine for a human user. An AngularJS application can get quite confused. It access the server in the background, expects a JSON response, and receives instead an HTML page. Here, we show a solution for this problem.
Interactive SVG with AngularJS – Part 2
When developing mobile web applications with responsive design, SVG are a viable solution for flexible images.
AngularJS in turn enables the wrapping of complex UI logic into custom HTML directives, resulting in clean and maintainable modules.
The combination of these technologies provides a good basis for interactive control and status elements. It is suitable both for building highly complex custom controls, as well as covering simple use cases in a generic manner.
Part 1 of this article explores several methods of employing SVG as flexible images in a cross-browser compatible manner.
Part 2 describes the use of AngularJS to construct custom control and status elements by manipulating SVG images.
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Interactive SVG with AngularJS – Part 1
When developing mobile web applications with responsive design, flexible images for interactive control and status elements pose a particular problem.
SVG offer a viable solution: They are much smaller than bitmaps of comparable size, and can be manipulated through their DOM API.
AngularJS in turn is well suited to wrap complex UI element logic in custom HTML directives, resulting in clean and maintainable modules.
Combining the two sounds attractive, but involves a couple of stumbling blocks to avoid.
Part 1 of this article explores several methods of employing SVG as flexible images in a cross-browser compatible manner.
Part 2 describes the use of AngularJS to construct custom control and status elements by manipulating SVG images.
akquinet Technology Radar 2013 available
Just in time for the holidays here is the new Technology Radar 2013 🙂
Have a look: http://radar.spree.de/results
This year the radar provides an overview of the trends for technologies, methods and tools in software development for 2013/2014. It is separated into 6 categories:
- Methods
- Platforms & Middleware
- Databases
- Frameworks & Libraries
- Languages
- Tools
Have a look for trends in 2014 and technologies to build on. You can download the radar: Technology Radar 2013 Print Version
Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year
akquinet AG
Clean Objective-C: Private Methods in Objective-C
According to the TIOBE Programming Community Index (March 2013), Objective-C is the third most-popular programming language, behind Java and C. This is not surprising, as Objective-C is used to develop the thousands of Mac apps and 775,000 apps for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch that are distributed via the App Store (Apple, as of January 2013). With more than 40 billion downloads, getting apps on the market as quickly as possible is highly attractive.
Unfortunately, the software’s (internal) quality often suffers from a short time to market. If the product’s lifecycle is longer than expected and technical debt is not paid off, development costs rise continuously. However, it is not that hard to build quality into the software right from the beginning. The new Clean Objective-C blog post series will demonstrate this. So, let’s get started… Continue reading
Developing a cross-platform application for mobiles and desktops with Aerogear
is a collection of examples, tutorials and best practices to develop mobile clients integrated with JBoss middleware. It aims at providing solutions for mobile clients to deal with typical requirements in enterprise applications, such as security and availability. Such mobile applications range from native clients (e.g. Android, iOS) via hybrid apps (with native and web components) to pure web apps (providing the highest portability but generally being less adapted to the target environment). In this post, we focus on a web-based mobile client and demonstrate how to develop a simple blog application where users can create and comment on blog posts.
The akquinet tech@spree Technology Radar is now available
akquinet tech@spree has published a technology radar analyzing the trends of 2011–2012. It provides an overview of the evolution of practice in the Information Technology sector in 2011 as well as a forecast for 2012. It is the result of one year of analysis and synthesis performed by the Innovation department of akquinet tech@spree.
The technology radar captures the output from discussions, experiments, projects, and feedback from customers and developers. It synthesizes the results to inform global technology strategy decisions. It focuses on new technologies and methodologies with a high level of attraction. This document does not aim to provide an in-depth presentation of each technology, focusing instead on conciseness and highlighting the trends and state of the practice.
More information on http://radar.spree.de
Managing an Apache server with Puppet
Puppet is a configuration manager embracing the infrastructure-as-code movement. It allows you to describe the desired configuration of your system. One of the most common tasks for Puppet is to configure an Apache frontend.
This blog post explains how you can use Puppet to configure an Apache server as frontend using the mod_proxy, without having to write a single Apache directive.
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