Social enterprise and social impact bonds are evolving concepts to describe new ways applying market models and solutions to social problems along with new ways of financing these projects. Contracting for outcomes, while well-understood in business-based contracts is still fairly new in the application to social programs. These are distinct but related approaches that are being touted as a way for government contract for public services and reduce expenditures on social programs.
Spring Social is an extension of the Spring Framework to enable the development of social-ready applications. With Spring Social you can create applications that interact with various social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and TripIt, giving the users of your application a more personal experience.
The main features of Spring Social include:
* A set of social network templates for interacting with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, TripIt, and Greenhouse.
* An OAuth-aware request factory for signing RestTemplate requests with OAuth authorization details.
* A web argument resolver for extracting Facebook user ID and access token information in a Spring MVC controller.
Welcome to JaValid
JaValid is an open source framework for validating your Java business objects. JaValid is licensed under the Eclipse Public License 1.0. JaValid 1.2 is the latest release.
JaValid is an annotation-based validation framework, which allows you to annotate your Java objects to introduce validation. JaValid can be used in any type of Java application (standalone application, web application etc). The framework currently provides full integration with the Spring Framework, Java Server Faces, Facelets, and any database. The framework can be extended easily, by means of extensions, and also allows you to add your own validation constraints in addition to the ones shipping with the framework.
The framework is documented well (both the source and the general documentation), so check it out. To learn more, have a look on the documentation page.
The source and distributions are hosted on sourceforge, go to the downloads directly here. You may also want to check out the weblog, which contains some useful information, including several examples.
Have fun using JaValid!
The WaveMaker platform consists of two components: WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio™ for developing rich internet applications and WaveMaker Rapid Deployment Server™ for deploying applications into a standard and secure Java environment.
Anvil is an Open Source Framework for creating Enterprise Portals with Flex as the Client and Java as the back end. It is being developed by Ryan Knight and Holly Edelson of Williams, James Ward of Adobe, Jon Rose of Gorilla Logic and many other great developers at Williams.
We wanted Anvil to be simple to deploy in any Java environment so it uses Plain Java Objects (POJO’s), Spring and BlazeDS. This allows it to be run in any application server or servlet container.
Here are some of the great features Anvil provides:
1. Single window or multi-window interface (similar to a Portal).
2. A pluggable security module which allows an enterprise to easily integrate their existing security systems into a Flex application.
3. The ability to load modules from different locations in the network for load balancing or fail-over.
4. Authorization and access control at different levels of granularity. This allows individual modules and remote services to be secured differently.
5. Common build scripts and templates to automate the building of Flex and Java.
6. A utility to auto-generating Flex code from Java.
7. A utility to auto-generate the project files for Flex Builder.
8. The ability to expose any Java class as a remote service to Flex
And many other great features! We will be writing about Anvil here and would appreciate any feedback or requests!
Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric (EAF) is a grid-based application platform that dramatically simplifies the development and deployment of highly scalable applications in Java, Spring, .NET or C++.
Unlike traditional application servers, Appistry EAF is built from the ground up for scalability. And unlike traditional grid computing, it's extremely easy to fabric-enable your applications.
With Appistry EAF, customers are able to quickly and inexpensively bring new capabilities to market, with the agility, reliability and scale demanded by their businesses.
This article introduces the Spring Data Access Object (DAO) framework. After examining the architectural needs for DAO, it describes the DAO pattern in general and how Spring simplifies the implementation.
OpenSwing is an open-source suite of advanced graphics components based on Swing toolkit: these components are more sophisticated of those provided with Swing and can be manipolated directly inside the UI designer of the IDE.
It is also a framework that provides data binding mechanism between components and data model, based on the MVC paradigm. Data model is based on Java Beans (POJOs) and it is supported in all OpenSwing components, such as Grid control or components container.