I've been having tremendous amount of problems lately using TortoiseSVN. Although server seemed to work fine, my SVN client had lots of problems, so I decided it was time to switch to Git. I was using the free service available at xp-dev but the free service only includes SVN repositories, so I tried the next best thing: GIT-SVN. Let's see how it worked out for me.

In previous post, we saw how easy it is to use J2EE as a rich backend. Let's continue with our example and show how to fetch and send some data from our J2EE backend to a Silverlight rich client application.

Creating Line of Business applications using DevExpress WPF controls is just a breeze. The actual application is nice looking too! Since there are a couple of skins available and the good thing is the skin also changes the look and feel of standard WPF controls!

When working on a Silverlight application that recieved data from a WebService I notice that loading of an array of 1500 items takes a lot of time. With this problem, application launch that has 3 separate webservice lookups, took almost 5 minutes to complete.

If you have not heard, Silverlight is the latest rich client technology from Microsoft. The good thing about it is that it works almost on all browsers and operating systems and you can host your application on non-microsoft stack too, but there are things such as database connectivity that you can't benefit from when creating Silverlight applications. The only way to create data-driven applications would be to use a service backend. Here I'll show you how to create a J2EE backend for your Silverlight application and host it on a JBoss application server.