Enterprise Java
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Play 2.0 framework and XA transactions
XA transactions are useful and out of the box, Play 2.0 today does not have support for them. Here I…
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Hunting a Random Bug – A True Story
A few weeks ago, I finished a bug hunt for the RapidFTR open source project, which took me three evenings.…
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Maven Build Number Plugin – Sample Usage
Suppose we need to add a build number to some artifact (jar, war, etc.). Here I’d like to demonstrate the…
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Redis pub/sub using Spring
Continuing to discover the powerful set of Redis features, the one worth mentioning about is out of the box support…
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Enhancing Spring Test Framework with beforeClass and afterClass setup
How to allow instance methods to run as JUnit BeforeClass behavior JUnit allows you to setup methods on the class…
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Spring 3.1: Caching and EhCache
If you look around the web for examples of using Spring 3.1’s built in caching then you’ll usually bump into…
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Spring Security using API Authentication
Background While there are many blog posts that detail how to use Spring Security, I often still find it challenging…
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Testing Custom Exceptions with JUnit’s ExpectedException and @Rule
Exception Testing Why test exception flows? Just like with all of your code, test coverage writes a contract between your…
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Log4j Thread Deadlock – A Case Study
This case study describes the complete root cause analysis and resolution of an Apache Log4j thread race problem affecting a…
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