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Spring framework is one of the most widely used framework in Enterprise application development. It has so many features such as Dependency injection, Data access integration, MVC, AOP which takes care of most of the boilerplate part of project, and developers can then focus on business logic only. One of the important feature in Spring is AOP. It is used by almost every enterprise application which is being developed using Spring. AOP So what is AOP? Definition of AOP - Aspect oriented programming is a programming paradigm which aims to increase modularity by allowing the separation of cross cutting concerns. Well, my understanding of AOP is - AOP allows us to introduce/join new modules in your project at pre-specified dynamic locations without having to code for it. Traditional examples of AOP is Transaction management, logging etc. You can read more about AOP at here . This article is for those who know AOP, have used AOP in their projects but do not know how Spring or o

I still remember that around mid 2013, I was arguing for the same concept of Facade layer in our application in my earlier company. I was unable to digest the importance of Facade layer, so I was of firm opinion that Facade layer is unnecessary and should not be used!! After 3 years, today when I was working on some code I realized that if we would have used Facade layer in our application then my work would have been much simpler than what I was doing... Structure of our application - Controllers/CommandHandlers                                                   | <----- Aspect execute at here Service Layer | Accessor/DAO |             | DB      Server This is the structure of our application, in which Service layer handles the gathering and processing of data from DB and server process. We have a concept of MSU , where our application hosted of a central server gathers data from various servers and shows it on the centralized server. Now when call from co

Spring framework is one of the DI frameworks which is largely used to develop web applications(enterprise). It provides almost every feature which is required to develop a enterprise web application. Also it is extendable, so you can customize it the way it suits for your application. Custom bean scope Although bean scopes provided by Spring fulfills requirements of the application, some times you may need something different which is not available by default. In our application we faced the same situation. Requirement We had a requirement of the scope which uses an application value to decide which bean to use(return). The default scopes provided by Spring were not useful and was not providing the required functionality. Implementation As I said earlier, Spring is extendable. It provides an interface Scope, which you can implement to introduce custom scope in your application. To create custom scope, Scope interface needs to be implemented. Scope interface has

Notepad++ is a great file editor. It has many features. The most important feature which I like about Notepad++ is its light weight. It loads up so quickly, that's great. It also provides syntax highlighting for many languages. I use notepad++ to edit general files as well as my simple Java programs. Although notepad++ provides functionality to run external programs, I prefer NppJavaTools plugin to compile and run Java programs using notepad++. You can download NppJavaTools plugin from this page - NppJavaTools . Installation Installation of plugins in notepad++ is very simple process. All you have to do is copy plugin dll into plugins folder of notepad++ installation directory and restart the notepad++. Features This plugin provides following features, Compile and run your Java files within Notepad++ Set custom hotkeys for compiling and running Java Code Library support Compile and Run This function allows you to run your Java programs to compile and run from N

If you are a Visual C++ programmer or you have learnt Visual C++, you might have seen and wondered how Windows Media Player Seek Bar is designed. Well, I have always wondered about it before today.. The Seek bar which Windows Media Player is a transparent seek bar. It uses a gradient fill from bottom to top. When you are playing some video in Windows Media Player, you can see the video running behind this seek bar. Many times I tried to design a control like this, where a control is transparent and the control which is placed behind this control should be visible. Although I never succeeded in this one, but I tried it a lot of times. Today when I was listening to songs using Windows Media Player(!!), I saw when I click on the area near to seek bar Windows Media Player's main window gets de-activated. The technique behind the transparent seek bar is to create a separate top level window. This second top level window should be a Layered Window , you can read more about Layer

Few years back when I was in college I used to get huge amount of time to learn new technologies. In those days once I was trying to learn DirectX programming using Visual C++. I started with few tutorials and learnt a lot about the DirectX programming. At that time I designed my first screen saver using DirectX and Visual C++ which was Falling Hearts screen saver. Every time valentines day comes close, I still get many mails regarding this screen saver. Some of them are to modify the screen saver, some of them are for the download link and some of them are Thank you mail. Well, I am happy about it but as said earlier I wrote it long time back and neither I have source code for it anymore with me to modify it nor the time. To download the screen saver please visit Softpedia at  http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Screensavers/Valentine-Screensaver-CM.shtml After this screen saver I wrote another small and very simple game using DirectX, here is the video for it.