Jan, 2012 - Post

Managing Calendar and Invites in Java

Calendars are used to store formation for various events. Calendar viewer displays the month-date view and for each day displays the events/reminders information. Invites are the events in the form of email. Once the invite for an event sent to a user via email then that event will be stored in the calendar view and same can be seen in the day information of the calendar view. Calendars Calendar data can be stored in files; there are some standard formats for storing calendars iCalendar is a computer file format which allows Internet users to send meeting requests and tasks to other Internet users, via email, or sharing files with an extension of .

Jan, 2012 - Post

Working with Enterprise Service Bus

This article starts from basic terms of ESB worlds and then provides details of the FuseESB with various examples. It contains step by step guide to install FuseESB, and develop and deploy OSGi bundle on FuseESB. Lets understand terminologies of the ESB world : ESB An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a software architecture model used for designing and implementing the interaction and communication between mutually interacting software applications in Service Oriented Architecture.

Jan, 2012 - Post

Mail Merge in Java

MailMerge is a process to create personalized letters and pre-addressed envelopes or mailing labels for mass mailings from a word processing document (Template). A template contains placeholders (Fields) along with the actual content. The placeholders are filled by the data source which is typically a spreadsheet or a database having column for each place holders. This article talks about the java approach for generating multiple documents from a single MS Word template.

Jan, 2012 - Post

Font configuration in JVM

Last year we have migrated one of our application from Java 5 to Java 6. The Java 6(OpenJDK) installation was done by client on a fresh system. After installing our application (under JBoss app), we found the fonts on JFreeCharts and on the images generated from AWT were not correct. We have solved the issue by configuring the fonts at JVM level. Let understand it better. How AWT / JFreeCharts shows the fonts AWT rely on native fonts, it usages default Java fonts (which best fits) if no native fonts mapping found.