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Core Java
Throttling Task Submission with a BlockingExecutor
The JDK’s java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor allows you to submit tasks to a thread pool and uses a BlockingQueue to hold submitted tasks.…
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Enterprise Java
Simple CRUD using Servlet 3.0, Redis/Jedis and CDI – Part 2
In this post we will focus on CDI and Servlet 3.0. You can see part 1 here. Let’s start with…
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Software Development
Cloud based deployment pipeline
Cloud based development tools are continuing to improve thanks to the power of new browser technologies and cloud services such…
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Software Development
Multi-tier application + database deadlock or why databases aren’t queues (part1)
Databases aren’t queues. And despite the ubiquitous presence of queuing technology out there (ActiveMQ, MSMQ, MSSQL Service Broker, Oracle Advanced…
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Core Java
Too Many Parameters in Java Methods, Part 8: Tooling
The first seven posts of my series of dealing with too many parameters expected in Java methods focused on alternative…
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Core Java
Announcing EAXY: Making XML easier in Java
XML libraries in Java is a minefield. The amount of code required to manipulate and read XML is staggering, the…
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Enterprise Java
Hibernate Facts: Equals and HashCode
Every Java object inherits the equals and hashCode methods, yet they are useful only for Value objects, being of no…
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Software Development
Migrating from a Subversion repository to GitHub
One of greatest attractions of GitHub is the community and the tooling that allows this community to share code. Each…
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Enterprise Java
Hibernate Facts: Multi level fetching
It’s quite common to retrieve a root entity along with its children associations on multiple levels. In our example we…
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