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Enterprise Java
Servlet Basic Auth in an OSGi environment
You will first need to get a reference to the OSGI HTTP Service. You can do this through a declarative…
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Agile
Agile Estimating: Story Points and Decay
I’m re-reading Mike Cohn’s Agile Estimating and Planning. It’s the best book I’ve found on this and worth reading, even…
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Enterprise Java
Preventing CSRF in Java web apps
Cross-site request forgery attacks (CSRF) are very common in web applications and can cause significant harm if allowed. If you…
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Core Java
Top 5 Reasons for Not Using JavaDoc in the Next Project
JavaDoc is an absolutely must for the development of frameworks and libraries which provide a public interface for others, e.g.…
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Enterprise Java
Rube Goldberg Spring Integration
Spring Integration provides a very nice abstraction over some complexities involved with Integrating systems together – Spring Integration fits the…
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Core Java
Odd practices in Java
Overview There are a number of practices in Java which oddly baffle me. Here are but a few. Using -Xmx…
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Core Java
Tracking excessive garbage collection in Hotspot JVM
Quite frequently due to memory leaks or other memory problems applications freeze leaving only the garbage collector (GC) process running…
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Enterprise Java
A Simple Introduction to AOP
Why use AOP, a simple way to answer this question is to show an implementation of a cross cutting concern…
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Enterprise Java
NoSQLUnit 0.3.0 Released
Introduction Unit testing is a method by which the smallest testable part of an application is validated. Unit tests must…
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