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Retrofit: A Rest Client for android/java

Retrofit is a type-safe rest client for java/android that one can use for easily consuming rest services. It supports both synchronous and asynchronous retrieval. In this post, I will explain an example which shows how you can integrate it with your android application for consuming rest services asynchronously.  The …

Android: A short primer

Android has  a different paradigm for application development. So , In this post, I will  explain a few of those concepts (as I understand) that lie at its core.

  1. Cursor:  To draw parallels,  a cursor object is just like a ResultSet in JDBC. It is used for iterating over the underlying …

Driving security for ADF Essentials: Part 4

In this post i will share the security utility for performing operations on IAM Fortress applications using it’s java API’s. Use this utility only if you plan on having custom code to manage Fortress as fortress already provides a J2ee application to manage its policies. The code can …

ADF dynamically managing application policies

Recently a user contacted me with the requirement that he needed to assign enterprise groups to application roles dynamically. Normally, people can manage this through enterprise manager, but there might have been a specific requirement for that user.  I have already written various posts on ADF security which cover utility …

D3.js: An introduction

D3.js is a framework for data driven documents. You can use it to create data visualizations. If you require some charting component for your java application you can easily create components based on this library or a derivative of it. In this post i will highlight some of its …