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Enterprise Java
Running HTTP/REST Integration Tests efficiently in Eclipse
Lately I had a chance to use the OSGi-JAX-RS-Connector library written by my dear fellow Holger Staudacher. The connector enables…
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Software Development
Best Must-Read Books for Software Engineers
Here are the CodeBuild selection of must-read software engineering books. Books are grouped according to their content with some description.…
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Core Java
Signing Java Code
In a previous post, we discussed how to secure mobile code. One of the measures mentioned was signing code. This…
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Enterprise Java
Stress/Load-Testing of Asynchronous HTTP/REST Services with JMeter
Although I have been using JMeter for stress- and load-testing of web applications a good few times it took us…
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Software Development
Back to Basics – good comments are targeted comments
I can’t think of a single person who enjoys writing comments in code. I don’t, my friends and colleagues don’t,…
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Enterprise Java
Spring MVC Error Handling Example
This post describes the different techniques to perform error handling in Spring MVC 3. The code is available on GitHub in…
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Core Java
Investigating Deadlocks – Part 5: Using Explicit Locking
In my last blog I looked at fixing my broken, deadlocking balance transfer sample code using both Java’s traditional synchronized keyword…
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Software Development
MongoDB From the Trenches: Masochistic Embedded Collections
MongoDB supports rich documents that can include, among other things, embedded documents. This feature embodies a has-a relationship quite nicely…
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Software Development
Apache OpenOffice vs LibreOffice: Make love, not war.
Before a good while something terrible happened at Oracle. The result was that a lot of developers made a fork…
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