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Core Java
Secure Encryption in Java
Last time I wrote about cryptography, I outlined Apache Shiro crypto API and shown how to use its two symmetric…
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Core Java
Threading stories: ThreadLocal in web applications
This week I spend reasonable time to eliminate all our ThreadLocal variables in our web applications. The reason was that…
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Desktop Java
JavaFX 2 GameTutorial Part 2
Introduction This is the second installment of a series of blog entries relating to a JavaFX 2 Game Tutorial. If…
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Software Development
JavaOne 2012 Analysis – Submitted Proposals and Speaker Distribution
Beginning some time last year I started to have a closer look at conferences and their speakers. My main interest…
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Enterprise Java
Writing modules for Play 2, part 2: Interceptors
In the first part of this tutorial, we looked at the bare basics for creating, publishing and calling a module.…
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Desktop Java
JavaFX 2 GameTutorial Part 1
Introduction I believe most software developers at one point in their lives as a youngster (young person) may become compelled…
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Enterprise Java
Word Count MapReduce with Akka
In my ongoing workings with Akka, i recently wrote an Word count map reduce example. This example implements the Map…
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Software Development
Frameworks vs Libraries as Inheritance vs Composition?
For quite some time inheritance was the dominant model of structuring programs in OO languages like Java. Very often it…
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Core Java
Runtime vs Compile-Time Classpath
This should really be a simple distinction, but I’ve been answering a slew of similar questions on Stackoverflow, and often…
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