Java Technologies

Oracle: Application Development Framework (ADF) Overview

Posted by admin on November 8, 2011 at 12:42 pm

In technical terms, Oracle Application Development Framework – usually abbreviated as Oracle ADF – provides a commercial Java EE framework for building enterprise applications. It provides visual, and declarative approaches to Java EE project development. Furthermore, it also supports Rapid Applications Development based on ready-to-use design patters, deep and clear coding architecture as well as [...]

Mobile Sales Force Automation (SFA) in FMCG

Posted by SPECIndia on July 22, 2011 at 8:30 am

The Sales Force Automation (SFA) solutions authorize salespersons with all the required details where they need it most. SPEC INDIA SFA has designed features that help pick up sales channel effectiveness and usefulness, Sales manager can become more efficient and more effective, sales opportunity approaching, sales quotes and, product pricing, new order entry, and shipped [...]

Mobile Phone Technology Trending in South Africa

Posted by SPECIndia on July 15, 2011 at 1:28 pm

Looking to the latest development mobile phones will quickly become the computers of Africa. Young generation have already switched to more mobile and smart phone utility in major countries like US, India, South Africa, UAE,UK and other European countries. A smart phone, iPhone, Android, Blackberry or other mobile devise are handier than computer, as computer [...]

In App Purchase Process Guide: Part 1

Posted by SPECIndia on July 1, 2011 at 7:07 am

In App Purchase allows you to embed a store directly within your application. You can implement In App Purchase in your iOS application using the Store Kit framework.
Apple allows three types of purchases within the app and Apple terms them as consumables, non-consumables and subscriptions.
Consumables: Products that are “consumed” immediately. This [...]

Android is booming nowadays worldwide

Posted by SPECIndia on June 24, 2011 at 6:38 am

Nowadays, we can see Android phone everywhere. Why Android? Android is relatively a newcomer in the Smart-phone market, still it has managed to gain overwhelming popularity and is continuously growing at a tremendous rate.
We at SPEC-India, Android Development division is well conversant with the Android Software Development Kit, different  technology tools and team required for [...]

Mobile Sales Force Automation: Spec-India steps ahead

Posted by SPECIndia on June 3, 2011 at 11:07 am

Sales force management systems are information systems used in marketing and management that help automate some sales and sales force management functions. Let me quickly move to mobile sales force automation.
What is Mobile SFA?
The Mobile SFA is an application that works on a Windows mobile of a sales person who can raise orders through the [...]

Jasper Report Development Tips

Posted by admin on August 31, 2010 at 7:06 am

Jasper Tips:

1. Reports in Jasper can be categorized as,
· Canned Reports-Canned Reports are designed with the help of iReport tool and can be hosted on Jasperserver or Custom web application.
· OLAP reports-Typical reports containing Drill down/up, slicing/dicing features can be designed using OLAP cubes. OLAP cubes are designed using JasperAnalysis Workbench.
· Ad-hoc Reports-JasperSoft BI [...]

Pentaho Tips for Developer

Posted by admin on August 31, 2010 at 6:57 am

Pentaho Tips:
1.       Pentaho Reporting provides the following features each of which can be achieved with the help of either a single or multiple tools
 
·         Simple Reports/Canned Reports: The Report Designer tool is used to create simple reports and upload it to the Pentaho server.
 
·         Analysis/OLAP Reports: This feature can be achieved by designing schema [...]

Jasper vs Pentaho

Posted by admin on August 26, 2010 at 5:03 am

Key Areas

Jasper

Pentaho

Technology

Tomcat

JEE

Spring

Acegi

Hibernate

CAS

Java

JPivot

JPivot

Mondrian

Mondrian

Jboss

Acegi

 

Features

Very good user
interface

Web-based adhoc reporting
Wizard

Hibernate query
support in addition to
SQL queries

Conditional report
distribution

Single sign-on

Task bar notification

Custom report
expressions can be
written in Groovy

Focus on data integration
 through ETL tools and
automated work flows

Security model on
OLAP reports

Good Support for Data
mining Tools

To access Pentaho’s web
 interface some training and
familiarization are required

Conclusion

Jasper has [...]

CMP Versus BMP

Posted by admin on April 15, 2010 at 2:01 pm

The EJB container handles persistence for entities with CMP, requiring the developer only to implement any logic and define the bean properties to be persisted. In EJB 2.0, the container can also manage relationships and finders (specified in a special query language - EJB QL - used in the deployment descriptor). The developer is required [...]