Archive for August, 2010

 

Learning resources for REST

 
Overview I’ve heard of REST, or Representational State Transfer many times. My impression is on the SEO Url like http://bookstore.com/books/isdn/978-0-596-52926-0. Actually REST is much more than that, it can applies on HTTP and many other protocols. And by learning REST, we can design/develope better web sites. Below are some good sites about REST, [...]

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Get started with JPA 2.0 (EclipseLink 2.1)

 
Overview Recently I just started playing with JPA (I used Hibernate and JDBC before). After reading some examples, I built a very simple program with JPA 2.0 (EclipseLink 2.1), Eclipse 3.5 Galileo and MySQL Server 5.1. I would like to summarize steps to build the program here. Reference EclipseLink [...]

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WebSphere MQ triggering techniques

 
Overview How to make a program to run whenever a new message is received on a specific queue? There are two ways to implement this "MQ trigger" features: Use triggers function of WebSphere MQ WebSphere MQ have a [...]

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Getting SYSDATE in UTC (GMT) time

 
Overview Recently I have a task to change all the “last_update_date” column in our tables to store UTC (GMT) time. The “last_update_date” column with data type DATE stores the datetime where the row is last updated. I found that the system originally use SYSDATE to populate the value of “last_update_date” column, and the [...]

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