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Software Development
Open Source Culture and Ideals
Watching the commercial software industry frenetically trying to make process work occasionally feels similar to watching tragicomedy. This constant struggle…
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Core Java
Java Enum puzzler
Let’s suppose we have the following code: enum Case { CASE_ONE, CASE_TWO, CASE_THREE; private static final int counter; private int…
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Software Development
Application Lifecycle Management at Eclipse
The Eclipse Foundation has evolved a pretty impressive application lifecycle management story. Based on what I’ve observed over the years,…
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Enterprise Java
JNDI and JPA without J2EE Container
We wanted to test some JPA code with as simple setup as possible. The plan was to use only Java…
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Core Java
Lucene Overview Part One: Creating the Index
Introduction I’ve recently been working with the open source search engine Lucene. I’m no expert, but since I have just…
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Enterprise Java
MOXy as Your JAX-RS JSON Provider – Client Side
Recently I posted how to leverage EclipseLink JAXB (MOXy)‘s JSON binding to create a RESTful service. In this post I…
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Enterprise Java
Cost of Ownership Analysis: Oracle WebLogic Server vs. JBoss
A very interesting whitepaper by Crimson Consulting Group comparing the cost of ownership between Weblogic and JBoss. Although JBoss is free, the whitepaper…
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Software Development
Can you get more out of Static Analysis?
When it comes to static analysis, Bill Pugh, software researcher and the father of Findbugs (the most popular static analysis…
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Core Java
Fork and join in Java 7 – JSR 166 concurrency utilities
One of the most interesting improvements of Java 7 is the better support of concurrency. With JSR 166 Concurrency Utilities…
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