Articles Section Index | Page 3
Landscapegenerator
In this chapter I want to teach you the method to create 2D landscapes I used in my game Castles. Again, I won't talk about the Main class, which controls the applet in general and I won't talk abo...more
Leveleditor
In this chapter we discuss how to program a leveleditor that can used in any arraybased game. An arraybased game might be a Breakout clon, Boulderdash, PacMan or a Nibbles clone like our game Snaki...more
Load Testing with Apache JMeter | Adding Elements
The order of the elements doesn’t really matter, but it’s easy to rearrange them. Simply drag the elements to the proper position and answer
Load Testing with Apache JMeter | Applications to Test
Let me start by introducing the applications that we want to load test. The first application is a traditional web-application built with Jakarta Struts. Those of you who have read some of my artic...more
Load Testing with Apache JMeter | Enhancing the Test Plan
You have now seen the basic elements used in a test plan. We added a sampler and some listeners, but as could be seen in the menus on the last page there are many other elements that may be added t...more
Load Testing with Apache JMeter | Running the Test
This is done by again right clicking on the Thread Group node. Then select Add / Listener / View Results Tree:
Load Testing your Applications with Apache JMeter
JMeter from the Apache Jakarta project is a tool for load testing client/server applications. There are many other such tools for load testing on the market, but you will probably find that the ...more
The sourcecode of the most important methods.
As always I won't discuss every single line of code in detail, but I'll talk about the most important methods and classes. These are the class LevelReader and its method readLevels() and the class ...more
Using SOAP with Java
Hello welcome to the first part of my 3 series articles on developing SOAP based applications using Java. This series is not a detailed description of SOAP protocol but just a quick-start tutorial ...more
Using SOAP with Java | Binary Data Types
Apache SOAP implementation also allows you to send binary-data in one of the following forms
Using SOAP with Java | Serialization and Deserialization
Welcome back to part two of the series. Hope you had a nice coding time and had no major problem in deploying your first SOAP application. If you had one, it is most likely a classpath related prob...more
Using SOAP with Java | The Client
Once you have followed the previous instructions, we can test your installation by accessing the URL: http://localhost:8080/soap/admin. You will see a default admin page for Apache SOAP coming up. ...more
Using SOAP with Java | The Client | Part 2
Now we come to the most important part of writing the client. As described in previous sections, the client now has the added responsibilities of defining the type mappings and the Serializer/DeS...more
Using SOAP with Java | Writing a Deserializer
Deserialization is the reverse process of constructing Java objects out of the XML instance. In the SOAP context, to write a Deserializer we will traverse through a DOM Node of the XML instance of ...more
Using SOAP with Java | Writing Your Own Serializers and Deserializers
Welcome back again to the last part of this three series article on using SOAP with Java. In the previous installments, we examined the basic anatomy of SOAP, developed a very simple application an...more