Java
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MySql connections autodrop after a certain hours
MySql is configured to drop any connection which has been Idle for more than 8 hours. What is the implication…
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Brace yourselves – Spring Framework 4.0 is coming!
A few days ago SpringSource announced that the 4.0 version of the popular Spring framework is on the road. The…
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Testing REST with multiple MIME types
1. Overview This article will focus on testing a RESTful Service with multiple Media Types/representations. This is the tenth of…
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Spring Property Placeholder Configurer – A few not so obvious options
Spring’s PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer is used for externalizing properties from the Spring bean definitions defined in XML or using Java Config. There…
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Hamcrest Containing Matchers
The Hamcrest 1.3 Javadoc documentation for the Matchers class adds more documentation for several of that class’s methods than were…
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Java Thread Pool Example using Executors and ThreadPoolExecutor
A thread pool manages the pool of worker threads, it contains a queue that keeps tasks waiting to get executed.…
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ETags for REST with Spring
1. Overview This article will focus on ETags – the Spring support, integration testing of the RESTful API, and consumption…
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IntelliJ IDEA: Generate equals, hashCode and toString with Google Guava
THE PROBLEM In the world of Java, we’re quite often in the need of writing equals, hashCode and toString methods.…
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Processing huge files with Java
I recently had to process a set of files containg historical tick-by-tick fx market data and quickly realized that none…
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