Java
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Spring From the Trenches: Returning Runtime Configuration as JSON
If we need to figure out the runtime configuration of a Spring web application that is deployed to a remote…
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Interface Evolution With Default Methods – Part II: Interfaces
Default methods were introduced to enable interface evolution. If backwards compatibility is sacrosanct, this is limited to adding new methods…
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On Servlets and Async Servlets
The Servlet API, part of the Java EE standard, has long been (since 1998, when the 2.1 specification was officially…
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Farewell to Asynchronous Code
Quasar is a library that adds true lightweight threads (fibers) to the JVM. These are very cheap and very fast…
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Scalable, Robust – and Standard – Java Web Services with Fibers
This blog post discusses benchmarking web service performance under load. To learn more about the theory of web service performance,…
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How does Hibernate store second-level cache entries
Introduction The benefit of using a database access abstraction layer is that caching can be implemented transparently, without leaking into…
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How to FlatMap a JDBC ResultSet with Java 8?
You’re not into the functional mood yet? Then the title might not resonate with you – but the article will!…
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Spring Enable annotation – writing a custom Enable annotation
Spring provides a range of annotations with names starting with Enable*, these annotations in essence enable certain Spring managed features…
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How to Avoid the Dreaded Dead Lock when Pessimistic Locking – And some Awesome Java 8 Usage!
Sometimes you simply cannot avoid it: Pessimistic locking via SQL. In fact, it’s an awesome tool when you want to…
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