Java
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Optimistic locking retry with MongoDB
In my previous post I talked about the benefit of employing optimistic locking for MongoDB batch processors. As I wrote…
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A MindMap for Java Developer Interviews
Over the years I have been a panelist in many of the interviews for Java Developers. I have previously written a post…
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Java VM – Beware of the YoungGen space
As you may have seen from our previous performance oriented articles, a healthy JVM is one of the most important…
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What Garbage Collector are you using?
Our research labs are humming at full speed. With the recent injection of capital, we can only warrant that the…
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Embedding Maven
It is a very rare usecase, but sometimes you need it. How to embed Maven in your application, so that…
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HOW-TO: Using @PropertySource annotation in Spring 4 with Java 7
Today I migrated one of my projects, that I am currently working on, to Spring 4.0. Since it is a…
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@ControllerAdvice improvements in Spring 4
Among many new features in Spring 4 I found @ControllerAdvice improvements. @ControllerAdvice is a specialization of a @Component that is…
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Using serialization to find dirty fields in an object
Say you are developing a framework to auto-save objects into a database. You need to detect changes made between two…
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Why we shouldn’t use more threads than we need to
Overview There is a common argument that because we have lots of cores, and will have even more in the…
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