Java
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Commons VFS, SSHJ and JSch in Comparison
Some weeks ago I evaluated some SSH libraries for Java. The main requirements to them are file transferring and file…
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Random JCache stuff: multiple Providers and JMX beans
JCache (JSR 107) is the Java standard for Caching… enough said. No more introductory stuff. This is a quick fire…
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Unit testing HTTP calls with LocalTestServer
There are times when you’re unit testing code that is making HTTP calls to a remote server. You could be…
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Getting started with Spark: it is possible to create lightweight RESTful application also in Java
Recently I have been writing a RESTful service using Spark, a web framework for Java (which is not related to Apache Spark). When we…
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Accessing Chronicle Engine via NFS
Overview Chronicle Engine is a data virtualisation layer. It abstracts away the complexity of accessing, manipulating and subscribing to various…
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Teenage Sex and What the sun.misc.Unsafe Misery Teaches Us Generally
Lukas Eder wrote an article about the miseries of the proposed drop off of sun.misc.Unsafe. If you have not heard…
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Java 8’s Method References Put Further Restrictions on Overloading
Method overloading has always been a topic with mixed feelings. We’ve blogged about it and the caveats that it introduces…
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Is using Unsafe really about speed or functionality?
Overview Around 6 years ago, I started using a class which up to that point was just a curiosity sun.misc.Unsafe.…
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Java Numeric Formatting: DecimalFormat
In the post Java Numeric Formatting, I described and demonstrated some of the useful instances provided by NumberFormat static methods…
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