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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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Core Java
Java 8 parameter name at runtime
Java 8 will be introducing an easier way to discover the parameter names of methods and constructors. Prior to Java…
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Scala
Playing with futures
During job interviews we often give Scala developers a simple design task: to model a binary tree. The simplest but…
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Software Development
MongoDB “Lightning Fast Aggregation” Challenged with Oracle
What does “Scale” even mean in the context of databases? When talking about scaling, people have jumped to the vendor-induced…
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Enterprise Java
Project Student: Webservice Client with Jersey
This is part of Project Student. Other posts are Webservice Client with Jersey, Business Layer and Persistence with Spring Data.…
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Agile
Give Credit Generously
I had a boss who was great at saying, “Terri did this. Jen did that. JR did this other thing.”…
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Software Development
Performance tuning – measure don’t guess
In my performance tuning career I have given the advice to measure and not guess more often than I can…
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