Category Archives: code

WebSphere + JNDI + Spring Framework + Hibernate

Thought I’d post a snippet of applicationContext.xml for all the people out there trying a JNDI data source wired up in IBM’s WebSphere Application Server through Spring Framework and Hibernate. I couldn’t find this information as a whole anywhere out there so hopefully it helps someone.
Hit the jump for the xml.

google analytics plugin

I’ve released another plugin for wordpress. The details can be found here.

wp-weather widget

I’ve released a new plugin/sidebar widget for wordpress. Details are here: wp-weather widget.

hibernate and subclasses

Another challenge that presented us in developing our current product was persistence. Upon the recommendation of our architect, we chose Hibernate. Hibernate is a great tool for persisting model objects to nearly any data source you could imagine. The base implementation with our Data Access Objects (DAO’s) was straight forward.
We didn’t want [...]

truelicense licensing framework

One of the things a commercial application needs to protect intellectual property as well as avert piracy is a licensing component. As the application I’m managing is a java based web product we naturally needed a java based licensing framework. Our answer was found in TLC - an open source licensing framework that [...]