OpenChronicle is a blog application that delivers fundamental features similar to platforms like WordPress and Blogger. It allows users to create and publish real-world blogs effectively.
Using OpenChronicle as a learning resource can be highly beneficial to those who want to improve their mastery of the available subsystems or those who want to look up how to use specific features quickly. With detailed tutorials, it thoroughly documents every step of the design and development process to make it easy to create a fully featured application that is portable and easily maintainable.
Each successive version of the software further enhances its previous features with desirable abilities that are easily integrated by adding another available subsystem or a component of its functionality. Among the latest updates: OpenChronicle is now a comprehensive tutorial for developing Java applications using the Open Core middleware abstraction layer.
The tutorial is designed to help developers create a real-world blogging application with ease, walking them through the various stages of design and implementation. It explains how the application data model can be easily implemented, how to code persistence using any of the supported databases, and how to make the application work as a POJO or EJB, which can be used on any of the supported J2EE application servers. It also explains how to design a flexible and skinnable web user interface with basic security features.
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