How Offshore Android Development Can Capitalize On The Benefits Of Android Platform?

by Dhaval 26. April 2012 05:34

Android development is an open platform that offers offshore Android development team with a large number of opportunities to develop, sell and distribute their Android applications in the market easily. Since this platform is always on an innovative streak with the software and hardware being updated all the time, it is not surprising that Android development team gets a chance to innovative and come up with exciting range of applications on a frequent basis. There are clients looking for offshore Android development teams that possess the expertise and the skill to effectively create Android applications that can hold their own in the market and meet the targeted business objectives. Undoubtedly, there are a lot of advantages attached to the popularity of Android platform and some of them include:




Global partnerships:

Most offshore Android development companies realize Android has become one of the fastest growing platforms considering more than 200 million Android devices have been activated. In fact data shows that each day about 550,000 new devices are added and activated in more than 137 countries and regions globally.

Always innovating:

Another important aspect is the innovation that one can expect from Android development. Since there is always upgrades in the software and hardware, therefore outsource Android development team can truly experiment and innovate a large number of applications based on the latest technological capabilities. That's not all, it gives outsource Android development team access to chipset architectures and device form-factors.

Development:

The development environment of Android is extremely powerful as it provides Android development team with all the tools required to develop excellent and innovative range of Android applications. Since Android provides the outsourced Android development team with an application model that can function everywhere thereby giving them the flexibility to deploy the apps on different devices.

Open Marketplace:

The biggest advantage is that Google Play offers the main marketplace for selling and distribution of apps to Android users worldwide. Through Google Play, Android development team can ensure their applications reach a wider segment of customers and it becomes popular across apps and different brands.

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Liferay Portlets - A Leading Open Source Portal For The Enterprise

by Dhaval 16. April 2012 09:41

Liferay is an open source portal that is robust, fast, flexible and secured enterprise web platform that allows building business solutions that deliver immediate results and long-tern value to users. Thus Liferay Development solution, Liferay Project Development, Liferay consulting India, Liferay application development and Liferay portal development is high in demand by many users. We will see how it is helpful and beneficial platform for enterprises and businesses.

 

  • This open source portal offers proven real world performance to wide range of clients covering various industries and businesses.
  • Liferay comes out with new releases and versions every 8 months thus customers can get rapid innovation along with customer-contributed sponsored development.
  • Liferay owns support of strong community and boasts of 4 million download and about a quarter of its deployment.
  • Further Liferay offers guaranteed SLAs for 24/7 with availability of regular service packs and a five year EOSL policy.
  • It has earned an award and named as a Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals.

Liferay – all in one package

Liferay Portal offers more capabilities having broad products so as to provide users with instant return on their investment.

  • If offers content as well as document management supporting integration with Microsoft Office.
  • It allows web publishing and shared workspaces
  • Social networking and Mashups
  • Enterprise collaboration
  • It allows building of enterprise portals and identity management

Liferay delivers solutions that really works

Liferay development solutions, Liferay consulting India or Liferay application development is used by most enterprises as it allows building of robust business solutions that deliver beneficial results for them like:

  • It offers Self-Service Portals
  • Knowledge Sharing Workspaces
  • Dynamic Web 2.0 Websites for all types of businesses
  • It offers businesses with revenue-generating social networks
  • Enterprise Application Integration with Liferay development solutions

Liferay leading the market independently

Liferay enjoys a position of major independent portal vendor in the market without having any stack agenda, which allows it making technology decisions based on decisions that will benefit customers the most and not based on what that increases revenues for other product lines.

Compatible with your IT

Liferay runs smoothly on any of user’s existing application servers, databases or operating systems so that it eliminates requirement of spending on new infrastructure.

Flexible Scripting Support

Liferay is capable to run Ruby, Python, Ruby, Grails and other light weight scripting technologies within robust Java framework

Compliant with Standards

Liferay is adhered to open standards for content, Portlets, web services and front-end technologies for reducing overall development costs.
Ready for the Enterprise

Liferay is always ready for enterprise as it runs smoothly on user’s existing application servers, databases and operating systems thus any Liferay application development or LIferay development solutions are ready for your enterprise without any new costs to incur.

After knowing all these benefits of Liferay Portlets even new people would be tempted with choose Liferay development solutions, Liferay consulting India, Liferay Project development and Liferay application development. Liferay is highly scalable thus has supports of millions of users, daily page hits and much more.

Mobile Solutions - Perfect Fit For Any Sized Company

by Dhaval 15. March 2012 12:53

Just before a year or two small and medium sized businesses were choosing mobile solutions. Those numbers are today more than double and of course they are due to increasing launches of latest smart phone that have smart and highly advanced features and due to increase in mobile application development. Mobile apps are built by many companies but expert can really make wonders with them and make them really work beneficially for your business.

People are still hesitant to opt mobile solutions but if developed professionally with expert hands there is nothing to worry about. Again now it is also an affordable way to market your business thus mobile solutions are advisable and a wise decision to work efficiently, stay in touch with office & employees and market the business. Today mobile solutions and mobile solutions company that provides us with different apps are growing at unlimited speed. Mobile apps cover almost all categories and being so robust, scalable and speedy in technology there is no other option to choose for all sizes of businesses.

Mobile solutions offer tangible and intangible benefits to all types of businesses. No business is same and differs from each other thus has different needs too. Those out of you who desire positive results and high ROI should never miss an opportunity to get a mobile application development from a professional mobile solutions company. Even though your business has unique needs then too they have some ways to benefit from mobile solutions.

There are several mobile strategies that businesses should look at when considering a mobile solution rest all is fine. The four most important benefits that businesses can benefit from mobile application development or mobile solutions are:

  • Connects you with consumers: Mobile technology today gives us all a unique chance to never depart from our customers. This was never possible before but now smartphones and apps are capable to market your products and services to all mobile users so they are aware of what you offer them. Any powerful marketing strategy can get your customers to interact more and offer you with more business.
  • Increasing customer satisfaction: Mobile apps and solutions increases the overall function of the app, enhances customer relation and is capable to provide immediate response to all customer queries, questions or complaints. Thus customers are more satisfied and content.
  • Empowers employees and make them work collaboratively: There is mobile strategy enough to transform any business internally as well create fast, more efficient and collaborative process. Employees can instantly access tools and information that are important use them for better operational efficiency and result into profitable business. All these again they get on time and in budget.
  • Better relationships with vendors: There are some businesses totally dependent on vendors and needs highly responsive communications with their suppliers. With the help of mobile phones suppliers and vendors can stay in touch all the time irrespective of their place and time. They can exchange information, important data and access whatever they desire rapidly and in budget. While also they are aware of all updates on products and services.


Thus any business has chances to benefit from mobile solutions.

Mobile Apps And Solutions Lead All Global Trends Around

by Dhaval 14. March 2012 13:52

Today when we think of old mobile phones or cellular/wireless phone we may laugh or may shock seeing the present situation. In our old days nothing we did with mobile phone except calling and sending messages but today the whole meaning, use and purpose has changed. Big thanks to all those who bought for us the high-end smart phones enabling us to do more than we ever expected from this technology. No other technology has made such great impact on human lives than this one. Yes internet and PC s did the same work but mobile phones keep them behind too by combining two technologies at a time one of being a mobile phone and another by being a full-fledged computer. Some surveys and experts say that PCs will be left behind very soon seeing at the rapid pace of Smartphone usage.

The very high level at which the mobile phone users have grown so is the case with mobile solutions and mobile application development. The more people use mobile phones more do they need mobile application development to work better. iPhone, Android, Blackberry, HTC and Symbian are favourite platforms that Mobile solution company choose for mobile solutions development. All these developments provide numerous benefits for both developers and users. Developers with the use of latest open sources and great community help find it easy to develop any type of solutions for users and users have no limits to use the app for their benefit. Latest tools, sophisticated software and SDKs have facilitated mobile solution company to create innovative, interactive, user-friendly and highly beneficial mobile solutions for their clients.

Being very compact in size, allowing easy to use features and great display attracts more and more audience to get these mobiles. It serves as all in one solution for user by being a camera, a pc, a gaming device, web enabler, email sender, music and video player and much more. There are millions of apps available for these phones, iPhone and Android leads the mobile apps market. Apps are for all types and interests of people whether it is business, sales, marketing, inventory, video, music, web, internet, social media, social networking, games, entertainment, scanning, photography, heath, medicine, fitness, food, lifestyle, personal assistant, customized apps and much more.

You can also get a mobile website developed from a professional mobile solutions company. With the help of mobile site you can do business round the clock and everywhere in the world. People owning smartphones can reach you by viewing your website and you increase sales and revenues both. More than PCs and laptops people spend more time with their mobile phones and they are accompanied everywhere they go. Affordability is another main benefit that it offers you can use and get most out of mobile application development at low prices. It offers you with improved operational efficiency, cost saving, time saving, high ROI, exact fit as per requirements, customized or tailor-made options, no hassles and disturbance, user-friendly, customer-satisfaction and timely services. There are companies that possess the capability of developing any application exactly fit for your requirements in any filed. No other trend is such beneficial as this one.

An Introduction To .NET String Resources

by Dhaval 5. March 2012 12:49

.NET development framework provides support for localized versions of application software. Traditionally applications are developed in a single language. However, with the increasing depth of globalization, the reach of software applications has been extended. Hence, there is a need to develop applications that can be localized into multiple languages. A string is a resource identifier in .NET application development framework. Both the resource and the resource identifier are defined in the same resource file.

The versatile .NET development features enable efficient creation and management of resource files. Resources in XML format or binary data such as images can be utilized and can be compiled into assemblies. However, the most powerful feature of .NET application development is the ability to write resources onto an external file. External resource files are commonly used to define localized string messages. When the application is released in a new language all that is required is the provision of the correct resource file without the need for a recompilation.

Language independence is achieved through maintenance of language-independent elements as a separate module distinctly different from the actual software code. In .NET development framework, externalized string handling functionality is achieved through "Resource Manager" class. "Resource Manager" allows controlled access to strings, user-defined string resource files, enumerations strings, type safe formatting, etc. This plausibilities the introduction of an application in a new language through creation of respective localized resources.

.NET application development can leverage the string-handling capabilities of the .NET development framework to create truly language-independent software applications. The steps to create string resources are:

  • Enter name values for all strings in a text file
  • Use Resgen.exe to convert the text file into a .resources file
  • Create a DLL
  • Use the Assembly Generation Tool or any other language compilers of .NET development framework and embed the .resources file


"GetString" method of "ResourceManager" is used to retrieve the string resource by passing the string name. The method returns the localized string.

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Java Applications Overhead Reduction Methods

by Dhaval 1. March 2012 13:42

Web servers, Database servers and file servers contain worker queues in order to correlate the tasks that are simple and handle them in a single shot. So all the short tasks will be pooled in the worker queue while this task will be retrieved by the threads in the thread pool and thus the task is finished to help java developers. A simple technique exists in order to hold one thread per queue and also synchronise the addition and deletion of task from the worker queue. This technique will also effectively use the CPU in the multi core system concept when offshore java developers are involved in java development projects.

Traditional Approach in Java development: Worker Queue is common

The concurrency of the underlying hardware is fully exploited by the server applications that make use of the common worker queue as well as thread pool. Remote sources send in very many short tasks which will be pooled into a worker queue by the server applications. Then a pool of thread will retrieve the tasks from the common worker queue and then finish with its process till the end. In case there are no tasks in a worker queue then the thread will automatically get blocked in the queue. The common worker queue is a great substitute of the traditional approach wherein every task had a corresponding thread and so many threads were utilised creating lot of confusion.  However this new method of common worker queue does have a drawback and that is when there is huge volume of tasks which needs to be executed within short period of time.  When there are many short term tasks in the application then also there is a problem in the single background approach.

Worker Queue per thread in Java development

Java developers can utlize the common worker queue method which provides greater benefits than the traditional approach wherein every task has to be created for a thread. The new method also creates a contention for every task thereby ensuring offshore java developer's benefit immensely from this feature. In this type of java development, a single work queue is being used by multiple threads to complete their task then the contention is applied.  And the situation is even more when there are a higher number of threads.  There are a number of multi core processors and the off shore java developers take up such a thing as a challenge to effectively use the cores in the Java applications.  The contention could be overcome in the common worker queue method through the following:

  • Lock free data structure could be used
  • Multiple locks along with the concurrent data structures could be utilised
  • Contention could be isolated through multiple queues


Work stealing and Queue per thread

Though there are many benefits provided by the common worker queue it still does not reduce the contention nor does it effectively use the cores underlying in the software applications.  Work stealing is an answer to overcome this problem. It's a technique wherein the work could be stolen by one thread from the other when it finds that there are no tasks in the current one. This will keep all the threads busy and also ensure effective usage.

Oracle Development Discovers Myriad Facets Of Oracle SOA

by Dhaval 7. February 2012 05:43

Oracle application development enjoys immense popularity and is recognized as one of the most leading names in the IT industry. Oracle has always been at the forefront of building innovative Oracle development solutions and ensuring the solutions are designed to fit in with the customer's requirements. The focus of the company is mainly on customers. Customer feedback is given a lot of importance. When they develop their new updates they keep in mind the feedback given by the customers and develop in such a way that all clients are satisfied with the product. In Oracle development the Oracle application development teams work together to develop an application that is not only extremely efficient but also features the next generation technology.

One such application that is developed and launched by the Oracle is the Oracle Service Oriented architecture. The initial cost to deploy this suite is also very minimal. The Oracle Service oriented architecture suite is the base technology for integration architecture.

The Oracle Service oriented architecture offers the following

  • Oracle Service oriented architecture suite
  • Oracle event driven architecture
  • Oracle enterprise gateway
  • Oracle server bus
  • Oracle application integration architecture
  • Oracle Service oriented architecture Governance
  • Oracle business process management
  • Oracle data integration
  • Oracle server bus for financial services


Features of the Oracle Service oriented architecture

  • Simple
  • Dynamic
  • Amazing performance
  • Tremendous scalability
  • Integrated monitoring
  • Integrated management


In detail the Oracle Service oriented architecture is an integrated tool, which is developed by the Oracle application development team, which is simple and easy to use. With the use of this suite there is an overall increase in the productivity. This Oracle development suite is not only very secure but it is also convenient to update enjoys a high level of scalability.

Benefits of the Oracle Service oriented architecture

  • It is pooled with the SCA. This means the efficiency of the output will progress to an enormous amount as the client will have the choice to drag and drop. With this option to drag and drop one can without difficulty gather the Oracle development applications that are driven by Meta data.
  • This particular suite from Oracle application development is extremely flexible and the response time is also quite fast
  • It offers an end-to-end visibility of the business.

 

Release of JBoss As 6 Rings Happily After A Year's Wait

by Dhaval 1. February 2012 13:58

JBPM, a classic and a very beneficial workflow engine has been helping businesses a lot to handle the real life complex situations. Companies follow a huge percentage of various business processes and their realization leads to business process management. Well you can manage most of your business process by software but still some will lead you to take some human effort. Jboss has introduced a fantastic product for implementing efficient working processes using J2ee platform.

You may start thinking what's so new in this product as there are many BPM suites continued in the market from years. But no this is nowhere similar to those traditional BPM suites while possess dual focus of providing process management features that you and developers both would just fall in love with. You can outsource wide range of its services like JBPM development, JBPM integration, JBPM web application development, JBPM 5 development etc. JBPM developers who are proficient in this domain can provide you with such services and benefit you a lot. Well you have very few choices to choose from if you want JBPM development and Jboss application development services.

Jboss has revolutionized the picture of BPM suites with its world-class products and benefits business users by giving great support to handle entire complex business logic with its various services like Jboss portal development and Jboss customization. Additionally if JBPM is integrated with Drools then it results into an unified or say collaborative environment that is integrated and thus business logic can be modeled including processes, events and rules.

Java is the most proven language and this workflow engine is written using it thus now there is no gap between business analysts and JBPM developers. Good news is Jboss's new product release and that is JBoss AS 6. JCP approved Java EE6 that was under development from more than a year and now JBoss application server 6.0 is ready ringing happily for JBPM and JBoss developers. This new release has great support for all great technologies that Java EE 6 has brought like Bean validation, Servlets 3.0, JPA 2, JSF 2.0 and much more.

New features/things that JBoss AS 6 brings are:

  • JBossOSGi and HornetQ integration
  • VFS 3 integration
  • Embedded JBoss AS
  • Shrink Wrap
  • EE6 Multi-namespace injection
  • Servlet 3.0
  • JPA 2.0
  • Single POM Dependency for all the AS runtime
  • New Apache CXF-based JBossWS stack
  • EJB 3.1 - Singleton
  • RESTEasy 2.0
  • XA Recovery
  • SwitchBoard integration
  • EE 6 Web Profile certification
  • And still the list goes on


This is a real good stuff for Jboss application development and Jboss customization services. Now by the time you read this blog also Jboss AS 7 would be released again to make us all happy with more modular and fast approach. JBPM developers would find to run JBPM 5 with difficulties but would be managed by some steps.

How .Net Development Teams Can Delete Multiple Rows Through WPF 4 Data Grid

by Dhaval 20. January 2012 10:25

WPF4 Data Grid is used for the .net development application which in turn is used in many other implementation works.  Data Manipulations also form a part along with the Data Representation when the DataGrid is used in the .net development application. Assigning of templates for columns is made possible with the use of the various elements of DataGrid that can beused by offshore .net development team.

Define the classes after the creation of the WPF application

 

 

2. In the .XAML window define the XAML code


<Window x:Class="WPF_Application.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        Title="MainWindow DeleteMultipleRows" Height="426" Width="740"
         Loaded="Window_Loaded">
   
<Grid>
   <TextBlock Height="51" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="37,12,0,0"
       Name="textBlock1" Width="648"
              Text="Employee Information System" VerticalAlignment="Top"
       TextAlignment="Center" FontSize="26" />
   <DataGrid AutoGenerateColumns="False" Height="240"
HorizontalAlignment="Left" Width="648"
              Margin="37,69,0,0" Name="dgEmp" VerticalAlignment="Top" 
              ColumnWidth="*" RowEditEnding="dgEmp_RowEditEnding" >
   <DataGrid.Columns>
   <DataGridTextColumn Binding="{Binding EmpNo}" Header="EmpNo" />
   <DataGridTextColumn Binding="{Binding EmpName}" Header="EmpName" />
<DataGridTextColumn Binding="{Binding Designation}" Header="Desig" />
   <DataGridTextColumn Binding="{Binding Salary}" Header="Salary" />
   <DataGridCheckBoxColumn Header="Delete"></DataGridCheckBoxColumn>
   </DataGrid.Columns>
   </DataGrid>
   <Button Content="Delete Rows" Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Left" 
Margin="37,327,0,0"
                Name="btnDeleteRows" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="190"
Click="btnDeleteRows_Click" />
</Grid>
</Window>

The XAML code will bind together the employee class properties and the data grid is individually defined. The offshore .net development team will be able to define the DataGrid CheckBox column through DataGrid and this will be in turn used to delete the rows out of the DataGrid. XAML code will also be used for creating a btnDelete that will complete the delete operation.

3. The mainwindow.XAML.cs is opened and the following code will be written in it

List<int> lstSelectedEmpNo;
EmployeeCollection EmpCollection = new EmployeeCollection();
In the loaded event, write the following code:
private void Window_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
dgEmp.ItemsSource = EmpCollection;
lstSelectedEmpNo = new List<int>();
}
The code shown above binds the Employee collection to the DataGrid.

Write the following code in the RowEditing event:
private void dgEmp_RowEditEnding(object sender,
DataGridRowEditEndingEventArgs e)
{
FrameworkElement element = dgEmp.Columns[4].GetCellContent(e.Row);
if (element.GetType() == typeof(CheckBox))
{
if (((CheckBox)element).IsChecked == true)
{
FrameworkElement cellEmpNo =
dgEmp.Columns[0].GetCellContent(e.Row);
int EmpNo = Convert.ToInt32(((TextBlock)cellEmpNo).Text);
lstSelectedEmpNo.Add(EmpNo);
}
}
}
 To delete the rows the following code will be written   
private void btnDeleteRows_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
try
{
if(lstSelectedEmpNo.Count>0)
{
int count=0;
foreach (int eno in lstSelectedEmpNo)
{
Employee emp = (from ep in EmpCollection
where ep.EmpNo == eno
select ep).First();
EmpCollection.Remove(emp);
count++;
}
MessageBox.Show(count + "Row's Deleted" );
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
}
}

Caching in .NET Framework Software

by Dhaval 10. January 2012 11:52

Caching is defined as storing. A cache is a storage bin that .net development uses to store data that has been used and for future requests that information can be retrieved. The retrieved data should be in the same format and content as the original data. Generally .net development sizes caches as small in byte size, and the properties of a data cache include being able to retrieve data when the original data source is unavailable.

.NET consulting uses System.Web.Caching in .NET Framework to develop applications. However, this library has been difficult to use except as an ASP.NET (active server pages) development tool. .NET Framework 4 has been .net developed to provide caching in .NET Framework applications inside an ASP.NET function.

.NET Development improvements entitled System.Runtime.Caching namespace include extensible caching; the ability to create caching providers such as databases, custom object, or the file system, and caching that is accessible to all .NET Framework applications outside of ASP.NET.

Additional improvements to the .NET Framework 4 include compatibility with earlier versions of .NET Framework. .NET development does not have to be concerned that applications will not run on the new and improved version of .net. Parallel computing simplifies .net development systems b providing a model for writing parallel threads. A new library entitled managed extensibility framework (MEF) provides .net development with extensible applications. Networking is improved by implement higher security elements. Windows authentication is available as are performance counters, support of large byte range headers, SSI support, and password based authentication schemes.

Further improvements include .net development and .net consulting being able to include extended caching, support for compression, and application auto start features.

Each new version of programming for .net development includes higher features and programming abilities. .NET Framework runs basically on Microsoft Windows, supports several programming languages, uses CLR (common language runtime), and includes a class library that will provide programmers with tools to write applications for Microsoft platforms. The added security and caching features in.NET Framework 4 will give .net development a way to program outside of ASP.NET which in turn will give Microsoft an edge in newer applications.