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Enterprise Java
Gradle Command-Line Conveniences
In my post A First Look at Building Java with Gradle, I briefly mentioned using Gradle‘s “gradle tasks” command to…
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Core Java
Extending Guava caches to overflow to disk
Caching allows you to significantly speed up applications with only little effort. Two great cache implementations for the Java platform…
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Agile
Acceptance Tests as Specifications
In my previous article about acceptance testing I wrote about how tools like FitNesse and Cucumber focus on collaboration between…
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Agile
11 Reasons why products fail in the market
Not all the product ideas get transformed into actual products. Only a few pass that stage and get to the…
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Enterprise Java
An Alternative Multi-Producer Approach
Recently on InfoQ, Aliaksei Papou posted an article on some of his experiments with high performance interchange of messages between…
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Core Java
The Logging Olympics – A Race Between Today’s Top 5 Java Logging Frameworks
Developers: Takipi tells you when new code breaks in production – Learn more Log4J vs SLF4J simple vs Logback vs…
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Enterprise Java
Proxies done right with Guava’s AbstractInvocationHandler
Not too often but sometimes we are forced to write custom dynamic proxy class using java.lang.reflect.Proxy. There is really no…
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Enterprise Java
Orika: Mapping JAXB Objects to Business/Domain Objects
This post looks at mapping JAXB objects to business domain objects with Orika. Earlier this month, I covered the same…
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Core Java
Advanced Java generics: retreiving generic type arguments
After their introduction in the JDK5, Java generics quickly became an integral element of many Java programs. However, as easy…
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