Java
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Tips for Writing Maven Plugins
I’ve spent a lot of time recently writing or working on plugins for Maven recently. They’re simple, rewarding and fun…
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Should you trust the default settings in JVM?
JVMs are considered smart nowadays. Not much configuration is expected – just set the maximum heap to use in the…
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Yammer Metrics, A new way to monitor your application
When you are running long term applications like web applications, it is good to know some statistics about them, like…
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Discovering the power of Apache Camel
These last years, ESB software has been getting more and more popular. If most people usually know what is an…
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MapReduce Algorithms – Order Inversion
This post is another segment in the series presenting MapReduce algorithms as found in the Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce…
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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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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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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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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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