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Log4j, Stat4j, SMTPAppender Integration – Aggregating Error Logs to Send Email When Too Many
Our development team wanted to get notified as soon as something goes wrong in our production system, a critical Java web application serving thousands of customers daily. The idea ...

What are procedures and functions after all?
Many RDBMS support the concept of “routines”, usually calling them procedures and/or functions. These concepts have been around in programming languages for a while, also outside ...

The new Java Caching Standard (javax.cache)
This post explores the new Java caching standard: javax.cache. How it Fits into the Java Ecosystem This standard is being developed by JSR107, of which the author is co-spec lead. JSR107 ...

Java Secret: Loading and unloading static fields
OVERVIEW To start with it is natural to assume that static fields have a special life cycle and live for the life of the application. You could assume that they live is a special place ...

Weird Funny Java!
Sometimes we can do really weird and funny things with Java; Some other times we are just being creative! Take a look at the following three examples and you will find out what I mean! Have ...

Testing GWT Apps with Selenium or WebDriver
Good functional testing is one of the most difficult tasks for web application developers and their teams. It is a challenge to develop tests that are cheap to maintain and yet provide ...

Best Of The Week – 2011 – W43
Hello guys, Time for the “Best Of The Week” links for the week that just passed. Here are some links that drew JavaCodeGeeks attention: * Hello JavaFX 2.0: Introduction ...

On the importance of communication in the workplace
When I just started learning how to program, I thought programming as a profession was about code, design and algorithms – after all, these are the courses that are taught in university, ...

Spring 3 Testing with JUnit 4 – ContextConfiguration and AbstractTransactionalJUnit4SpringContextTests
Looking in the internet for a way to test my Spring 3 application, I found many articles that describe how to test your application by using JUnit. Most of them are incomplete examples ...

Code coverage with unit & integration tests
On a pet project recently I set out to build automated UI (integration) tests as well as the normal unit tests. I wanted to get all of this integrated into my maven build, with code ...




