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Satya Komatineni

Satya Komatineni is the author of AspireJ2EE (http://www.activeintellect.com), an open source web development RAD tool for J2EE/XML. He is also the author of a public contnent managemetn/weblogging system called AKC (http://www.activeintellect.com/akc). He has published with ONJava.com, ONDotnet.com, XML Journal, Java Report, and Java Developers Journal. Currently Satya, in his capacity as CTO at Indent, Inc., is also a technical architect on a number of SBIR (Small business innovative research) phase-I awards. Satya's current research includes CMS/Blogging Systems, Universal Data Tiers, Java, C#, COM+, J2EE, XML,Relational Databases, Frameworks, SVG, Web Charting, Universal IDEs, Transformational languages (JSP, XSL, awk), and Better software architectures. Satya holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from IIT, New Delhi, 1986. The companies he has consulted with include IBM, Millipore, CSX, Ryder, Bax Global, Harland, and TNT Logistics, NA.

 

Articles

Server-Side Typed Event Distributors
Event processing isn't just for GUIs and enterprise messaging systems anymore. Even an HTTP server can be seen as processing a series of events, and it can be advantageous to wire up one or more handlers to each event. Satya Komatineni shows how to build an event distribution framework and what...
A Starter's Guide to the Eclipse IDE, Part 1: Installation and Projects
Installing Eclipse and working with basic Java projects.

Weblogs

SOA Projections, Common Data Models, and eventually Surface Oriented Data Architectures

I admit before writing another line on this subject that I have more questions than answers and majority of my statements here should start with "I wonder ..".

It serves well to remember what inspires

It serves well to remember what inspires. I repeat here a paragraph from Ivan Sutherland followed by links to read the rest.

A False ceiling: What is behind that blanket of SOA?

I believe in working with my children to clean up their rooms. Time is not always on my side, however. So my 10 year old showed me the other day how nicely she had been cleaning up her room....

Objects, XML, Databases: A Synergistic triangle of the Programming Circle

Three technologies, (Objects, XML, Databases) that have evolved independently seem to be flowing toward a synergistic union. An Object is about behavior. An XML is about structure. A Database is...

Need you help. What is a good approach for accessing java interfaces remotely and in a transparent fashion?

What is a good approach for accessing java interfaces remotely? The answer seems too obvious. Use EJB session beans, or web services or RMI. is that the best way? Could I not use dynamic...

Reflections on the importance of HTML prototyping for IT

Wonder if you have come across these lines before:

Vagaries, vicissitudes, and occasional pleasures of submiting a form

I thought I knew web forms. Atleast I thought I have a working knowledge of how forms work. I didn't realize the number of surprizes I found on the way.

Rewriting SendRedirect to deal with SSL (or https) offloading

When "sendRedirect" is used, some times the relative url is being translated into an absolute url using wrong scheme (http vs https). This articles explores the problem and a possible solution...

How to hide and unhide html sections/controls such as "div"

Lot of times I go back and relearn a bunch of stuff especially in the html/javascript world. Here is one such excursion into using the html div sections for your visual advantage.

The...

18 years of toil, a lot of help from the compiler, and a small but rare personal distinction

Software consulting firms in India during late 80s enjoyed a rare advantage. The job market for graduating engineers in all disciplines was very depressed. Especially with regional language...

Jaxb 2.0 tutorial

Unlike jaxb 1.x architecture jaxb 2.x uses metadata and can be quite seamless in working with java and xml. Hopefully the following references are quite useful to you to get to know jaxb 2.x and...

It is idle to compare Damian Conway with anybody

Speaking of the undisputed master of short stories O.Henry, Henry James Forman said this "It is idle to compare O.Heny with anybody.

CVSNT, Eclipse, and some lessons in OpenSource

I had the most difficult time getting eclipse 3.0.1 to work with the current CVSNT build CVSNT 2.0.58d. The knot has been finally unravelled and what I found, more importantly how I found out,...

Some notes on localizing server side applications

Localization seem to be a never ending topic. Here are some questions on the subject, occasionally followed by answers.

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A hobbit's ring and walls of Mordor: A journey through IT

The walls of Mordor

3 speakers, 3 styles, an enormously effective evening at OSCON 2004

I was very skeptical coming into OSCON this year and electing to stay here for 4 complete days when I only have a 45 minute session on wednesday. Particularly, given the smaller number of tracks...

Tier-less computing further explained

Let us start with a need

Given a user name, userid and an email address create a user. We can call this "createUser" transaction with three parameters name, id, and email.

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Some code examples demonstrating what I call a Unified Object Server Factory Pattern
While preparing for an upcoming session at OSCON 2004, I have collected some sample code for dealing with factory patterns in java applications. The specified URL lists some demonstrative examples of...
Some code examples demonstrating what I call a Unified Abstract Configuration Pattern

While preparing for an upcoming session at OSCON 2004, I have collected some sample code for dealing with configuration in java applications. The specified URL lists some demonstrative examples...

General introduction to server side java patterns
I have been trying to summarize and document some of the
A bit of Tomcat, a bit of Aspire, and a touch of master pages: Microsoft Access never looked so good ;)

A bit of Tomcat, a bit of Aspire, and a touch of master pages: and Microsoft Access comes to life.

Working with ServletRequest's setCharacterEncoding for UTF-8 form submissions

Working with ServletRequest's setCharacterEncoding for UTF-8 form submissions

A valuable server side java programming guide/reference

With the proliferation of java server side technologies, this tutorial from Sun is very well laid out and quite...

Show me the code: A taste of JAXB

The following sample code is extracted from "Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) by Ed Ort and Bhakti Mehta, March 2003" to show you a taste of how jaxb coding look like with some of my own...

Parts, Pipelines, and Declarative programming: An architectural model

Introduction

A valentine helper from a "John Donne (1572-1631)

Valentine and impending doom, when in the same sentence, are redundant. Perhaps the following lines from John Donne(1572 to 1631) might be of somehelp to the needy: 

If ever any beauty...
Type faces: An idea to bridge typed and type-less worlds

Introduction

How to style a simple block menu in HTML using CSS

How to style a simple block menu in HTML using CSS

A quick refresher on CSS selectors 
.question {font-weight: bold } (solitary class selector)
p.question {font-weight: bold} (regular class selector)
body {font-weight: bold} (element selector)
p#question { font-weight: bold} (ID...
A picture is worth a thousand words

As I have spent a good bit of the last 3 years in developing Aspire/J2EE, my discussions involuntarily drift towards floating this name. Foes ignore and friends, out of pure courtesy mainly I...