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Think it’s a weird kind of question? Not for people who have worked (or are working) on applications that are moving from one framework to another. I happened to work on one such project where a transition from Struts to Spring MVC was being done over a few releases. Not unexpectedly, this approach of supporting two frameworks at the same time gave the development team its own share of interesting challenges. And one such issue was how to use a new technology i.e. Spring themes in both frameworks, of course we could choose not to use it in enhancements to legacy Struts based application flows but then that would have meant doing the enhancements twice.

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If you’re like me, you’re working on many things at once. You’re continually developing, doing research, fixing bugs, helping people, etc. When it comes time to do your status report, how do you remember what all you did this week? When you see a bug that looks a lot like one you fixed two months ago, how do you remember what you did to fix it? The solution is simple, and yet I find many developers don’t do it. Take notes. You should take short, but informative, notes as you work, on all the things you work on that day. These notes don’t have to read like the next Great Novel. The purpose of the notes is to trigger your memory into remembering what you were doing when you took the note.

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AJAX development requires deeper knowledge in JavaScript and there is a slightly different set of features in different browsers. There are also technologies created out there called JavaScript libraries – such as Ext JS and Yahoo User Interface – and JavaScript toolkits – such as Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and DOJO – that can help you ease the burden. Basically, the libraries’ role is to speed up development for the client side and take care of the browser compatibility holdups. Further, the toolkits offer even more infrastructure providing support for the development and deployment phases.

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