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Core Java
Java EE 7 Community Survey Results!
Work on Java EE 7 presses on under JSR 342. Things are shaping up nicely and Java EE 7 is…
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Enterprise Java
Authentication against a RESTful Service with Spring Security
1. Overview This article is focused on how to authenticate against a secure REST API that provides security services –…
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Enterprise Java
Google Guava BiMaps
Next up on my tour of Guava, is the BiMap, another useful collection type. It’s pretty simple really, a BiMap…
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Software Development
The frustrations of the development
It’s busy period always before Christmas. Clients have ideas and request, we [at 2dwarfs] have started projects of our own,…
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Core Java
Increasing heap size – beware of the Cobra Effect
The term ‘Cobra effect’ stems from an anecdote set at the time of British rule of colonial India. The British…
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Meta JCG
The Java Advent Calendar
The Java Advent Calendar is winter-festivities themed blog featuring (at least) one Java-related post per day between the 1st and…
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Core Java
How to Create Extensible Java Applications
Many applications benefit from being open to extension. This post describes two ways to implement such extensibility in Java. Extensible…
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Core Java
Of Hacking Enums and Modifying ‘final static’ Fields
In this newsletter, originally published in The Java Specialists’ Newsletter Issue 161 we examine how it is possible to create…
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Enterprise Java
Using Builder Pattern in JUnit tests
This is not intended to be a heavily technical post. The goal of this post is to give you some…
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