Roy's Technology Diary

Work in Progress The Scarlet project is currently under development. Please keep an eye on the sourceforge project site (sourceforge.net/projects/scarlets) or contact personally for updates. Introduction to Domain Specific Language (DSL) Domain-specific languages have lately become a hot topic and a lot is being spoken and written about them all over the internet; much of the buzz around functional languages is their applicability to (once again) put the power and control of an application in exactly the right place where it belongs, i.e. in the hands of its users. By defining a simple language that the application users can understand, feel comfortable to communicate and use, programmers can effectively reduce their involvement in the never-ending cycle of UI requests and enhancements and can let users create scripts and other tools that allow them to create newer behavior in the applications they use. A perfect example of a wildly successful DSL is the Microsoft® Office Excel ...

Its been quite a while since my last post here. I understand that my sudden disappearing act must have annoyed a many of my regular visitors; especially the ones who are expecting the second part of the XRX tutorial. Whilst you wait for the concluding part of the XRX article, I thought of sharing somethings that i found to be interesting - As Java Web application frameworks have become more powerful and flexible, they've also become more complex. John O'Hanley's WEB4J framework in many ways flies in the face of this trend: it offers few customization options, but is easy to learn and work with. Read on to learn about the unusual (and somewhat contrarian) development principles behind WEB4J. You'll also have the opportunity to test out the framework by building a feature for a sample Web application... [ more ]