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'Building ESME with Logica OpenSMPP Java library' post illustration
Building ESME with Logica OpenSMPP Java library

Short Message Peer to Peer (SMPP) is an open, telecommunications industry protocol for exchanging text messages (SMS) between short message service centers (SMSC) and External Short Messaging Entities (ESMEs). The protocol is often used for connecting to SMS centers in order to send messages to mobile devices.

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Simply about Spring. Inversion of Control (IoC)

This week I'll tell you about inversion of control. This is very useful thing if you are going to develop dynamic application in compliance with modern approach to software development.

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Harnessing JIRA's SOAP API with Java

JIRA is a popular issue tracking and project management software. It can be used and accessed by lots of different means like IDE, email client or a web browser. Also there are many plug-ins for all sorts of other software products. Such an abundance is explained by the fact that JIRA has open and convenient remote procedure call APIs: REST, XML-RPC and SOAP.

So, it is possible to make your application communicate with JIRA through these APIs, too. If correctly integrate a Java API client, issuing a command to JIRA becomes the same as invoking a local subroutine. Let’s create such a little Java program and do some manipulations with an Issue in JIRA.

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Creating SOAP client from wsdl file

Today we’ll talk about writing java client for exchanging data with web service using SOAP protocol specification. Many of the web services that supports SOAP have java libraries that can make this task pretty simple to implement.
But if there is no such feature, then it becomes a little tricky, but in this article I will show you that it's not so hard as it seems.

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Immutable Collections in Java

Occasionally, while programming, one may want to create constant sets and store them in final variables for public use. Such a desire can lead to all sorts of problems.

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Get process list in Unix based systems in Java.

In this article we’ll talk about how to get process list in Java by running standard Unix commands.

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API Enhancements in Java SE 7

Recently released Java 7 has a lot of useful API enhancements such as the automatic resource management, multi-catch statements, switch statement with strings, binary literals and improved numeric literals. This post is a quick roundup of the new features, which should help you to get a full picture of Java 7 syntax in a short time.

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Authorize.Net CIM With Java SDK: How To Bill Your Customers

Authorize.Net is a popular payment gateway service provider allowing merchants to accept credit card and electronic check payments.
Using such a gateway to issue a one-time transactions doesn't raise any great troubles, but serving returning customers or managing complex subscriptions requires you either to be compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) or to ask your customer to re-enter his or her billing info every time. Neither is always what you want. Well, among other Authorize's features there is a Customer Information Manager (CIM), which targets that particular problem.

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Drawing charts in Grails.

Recently, I faced the problem of using charts in Grails web-application. At first, I was thinking about using well-known java libraries, such as JFreeChart . JFreeChart has a nice look, nice written documentation, and pretty simple to use.