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Core Java
Preventing System.exit calls
When developing containers that run code written by other developers it is prudent to safe-guard against System.exit calls. If a…
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Software Development
Why I never blame open source projects
Every now and then I get to read someone’s bad thought towards a given open-source framework. When I started programming…
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Enterprise Java
Spring Security – Behind the scenes
Security tasks such as authentication of user and authorization of a user to view application resources are usually handled by…
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Enterprise Java
Using MySQL autoincrement PK column in ADF Entity PK attribute
Hello all. Continuing with the ADF + MySQL workaround series, today we are going to see what we need to do…
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Enterprise Java
Getting started with Spring Data Solr
Spring Data Solr is an extension to the Spring Data project which aims to simplify the usage of Apache Solr…
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Career
Hiring Indicators, OSS, and the Value of GitHub
As someone who writes about tech hiring and who has also encouraged many to participate in open source and establish…
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DevOps
Cargo Cult: Devops
We’ve been at this for a few years now, talking about DevOps & what it means to be a DevOps…
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Core Java
HOW TO: Stereotyping a java Class
In this HowTo post I will show how we can stereotype a class with another class. Why is this useful?…
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Enterprise Java
HOW-TO: Custom error pages in Tomcat with Spring MVC
Default Tomcat error pages look scary. In addition, they may expose valuable information including server version and exception stack trace.…
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