Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Application Platform - Packt Enterprise's Book of the Moment

Applications of Physics

In this article by Jayme Schroeder and Brian Broyles the authors of AndEngine for Android Game Development Cookbook, we are going to see Physics-based games provide players with a unique type of experience not encountered in many other genres. This article covers the use of AndEngine's Box2D physics extension. Our recipes include:

• Introduction to the Box2D physics extension

• Understanding different body types

• Creating category-filtered bodies

• Creating multiple-fixture bodies

• Creating unique bodies by specifying vertices

• Using forces, velocities, and torque

Application Packaging in VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials

In this article by Peter Björk, authors of VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials, we will cover the packaging process. We'll discuss packaging's best practices the, packaging environment, entry points, the data container, and Package.ini.

Appcelerator Titanium: Creating Animations, Transformations, and Understanding Drag-and-drop

Almost any control or element in Titanium can have an animation or transform applied to it. This allows you to enhance your applications by adding a level of interactivity and "bling" that your apps would otherwise perhaps not have.

In this article by Boydlee Pollentine, author of of Appcelerator Titanium Smartphone App Development Cookbook, we will cover:

• Animating a View using the "animate" method
• Animating a View using 2D matrix and 3D matrix transforms
• Dragging an ImageView using touch events
• Scaling an ImageView using a Slider control
• Saving our "Funny Face" image using the toImage() method

Apache Solr: Spellchecker, Statistics, and Grouping Mechanism

There are many features of Solr that we don't use every day. In the previous article by Rafal Kuc, author of Apache Solr 3.1 Cookbook, we took a look at some Solr functionalities such as highlighting, sorting results, ignoring words, and so on. In this article, we will take a look at the spellchecker, statistics, or grouping mechanism which may not be in everyday use, but they can come in handy in many situations. The author will try to show you how to overcome some typical problems that can be fixed by using these Solr functionalities.

Specifically, we will cover:

• Computing statistics for the search results
• Checking user's spelling mistakes
• Using "group by" like functionalities in Solr

Apache Solr Configuration

Setting up an example Solr instance is not a hard task, at least when setting up the simplest configuration. The simplest way is to run the example provided with the Solr distribution, that shows how to use the embedded Jetty servlet container.

In this article by Rafal Kuc, author of Apache Solr 4 Cookbook , we will cover the following topics:

• Running Solr on Jetty

• Running Solr on Apache Tomcat

• Installing a standalone ZooKeeper

• Clustering your data

• Choosing the right directory implementation

• Configuring spellchecker to not use its own index

• Solr cache configuration

• How to fetch and index web pages

We have a simple configuration, simple index structure described by the schema.xml file, and we can run indexing.

In this article you'll see how to configure and use the more advanced Solr modules; you'll see how to run Solr in different containers and how to prepare your configuration to different requirements. You will also learn how to set up a new SolrCloud cluster and migrate your current configuration to the one supporting all the features of SolrCloud. Finally, you will learn how to configure Solr cache to meet your needs and how to pre-sort your Solr indexes to be able to use early query termination techniques efficiently.

Apache OFBiz Services

In this article, by Ruth Hoffman, author of Apache OFBiz Cookbook, we explore the following OFBiz Service topics:

• Managing OFBiz Services
• Calling asynchronous, synchronous, and recurring Services from an HTML form
• Creating a Service definition file
• Creating a Service definition
• Service implementation
• Defining Service input and output attributes
• Service Event Condition Actions (SECAs)
• Service groups
• Handling Service errors
• Implementing Groovy Services
• Mail Event Condition Actions (MECAs)
• Entity Event Condition Actions (EECAs)

Apache OFBiz Service Engine: Part 1

In this two-part article by Jonathon Wong and Rupert Howell, we will be exploring the Service Engine. Services in OFBiz operate in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). These services not only have the ability to invoke other services internally, but can also be 'opened up' and invoked by remote applications using, amongst other methods, the widely adopted messaging protocol SOAP.

Besides serving as a platform for interoperability, OFBiz services also offer us additional capability to organize our code. The traditional organizational strategies in object-oriented Java were a great improvement over the procedural paradigm. Wrapping both methods and variables together into objects to form a powerful "behavioral model" for code organization (where object's methods and variables define their behavior). Similarly with OFBiz services we are able to bundle groups of behavior together to form a coherent "service". We can say that OFBiz services, in terms of code or software organization, operate at a higher level than Java object-oriented organizational strategies.

In this part, we will be looking at:

• Defining and creating a Java service
• Service parameters
• Special unchecked (unmatched) IN/OUT parameters
• Security-related programming

Apache MyFaces Trinidad 1.2 Web Application Groundwork: Part 2

Read Part One of Apache MyFaces Trinidad 1.2 Web Application Groundwork here.