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Enterprise Java
Understanding Spring Web Initialization
Few years ago majority of us were used to write XML config files everywhere, to setup even simple Java EE…
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Enterprise Java
Execute Custom queries in Activiti
(This will probably end up in the user guide of the Activiti 5.15 release, but I wanted to share it…
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Core Java
sun.misc.Unsafe and off heap memory
The class sun.misc.Unsafe allows you to many of the things you shouldn’t be able to do in Java, but are…
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Enterprise Java
Using an Embedded Tomcat with Maven tomcat plugin
When developing a java web application using the Eclipse WTP, we need to have an installation of tomcat in the…
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Scala
Compiling Lambda Expressions: Scala vs. Java 8
Lambda expressions have taken the programming world by storm in the last few years. Most modern languages have adopted them…
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Enterprise Java
Testing Spring components with Mockito
Be able to unit test your spring components without the need of loading the full spring-context with its ad-hoc test…
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Core Java
How to estimate memory consumption?
This story goes back at least a decade, when I was first approached by a PHB with a question “How…
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Scala
I Don’t Like Scala
Yes, it is my opinion, and yes, it might seem like a hate-post. But I’ll try to address the issues…
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Enterprise Java
Specifying Gradle Build Properties
Properties are a valuable tool for easily customizing Gradle builds and the Gradle environment. I demonstrate some of these approaches…
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