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Core Java
G1 vs CMS vs Parallel GC
This post is following up the experiment we ran exactly a year ago comparing the performance of different GC algorithms…
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Groovy
Uncompressing 7-Zip Files with Groovy and 7-Zip-JBinding
This post demonstrates a Groovy script for uncompressing files with the 7-Zip archive format. The two primary objectives of this…
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Core Java
Investigating Memory Leaks Part 1 – Writing Leaky Code
I found this little problem the other day: there’s this server that runs for a while and then falls over.…
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Software Development
14 Code Refactoring smells you can easily sense and What you can do about it?
This post is specifically intended to Project Managers although developers and testers can also get reasonable inputs from this post.…
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Agile
Agile is like sex
I’ll get back to software development economics, there are more posts in the works, but right now I need to…
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Software Development
Humble architects
Humility is not a very common trait with software architects. After having worked with a few awful architects and recently…
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Enterprise Java
Integration tests with Maven 3, Failsafe and Cargo plugin
Unit testing is available in Maven out of the box. Because of that very often its used for integration tests…
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Enterprise Java
JBoss Drools unit testing with junit-drools
Recently I’ve been working with a project heavily using JBoss Drools. I am not Drools expert – I am not…
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Enterprise Java
Spring REST: Exception handling vol. 2
This is a second article from the series about REST Exception handling with Spring. In my previous post I have…
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