Java Code Geeks

Introduction to Strong Cryptography – p1

2012-02-22T02:18:00.000+02:00

One thing that amazes me is that the most developers are not familiar with strong cryptography. In my career, I’ve seen all sort of mistakes that lead to leaked data, guessable passwords, unfortunate...

JBoss Drools - Getting started

2012-02-21T19:11:00.001+02:00

This post will be about me getting to grips with JBoss Drools. The reasoning behind it is: SAP bought out my company's current rules engine and Drools is one alternative we will be looking into as...

Manipulating Java Class Files with ASM 4 - Part One : Hello World!

2012-02-21T16:04:00.001+02:00

What is ASM: ASM is an open source java library for manipulating java byte code. So it has the same purpose as Apache BCEL. As this article assumes that the reader has some knowledge of java class...

Best Of The Week - 2012 - W07

2012-02-21T13:24:00.000+02:00

Hello guys, Time for the "Best Of The Week" links for the week that just passed. Here are some links that drew Java Code Geeks attention: * NetBeans IDE 7.1: Unlocking the Java EE 6...

Redmine Installation & Getting Started Guide

2012-02-21T01:02:00.000+02:00

Redmine is a free and open source, flexible web-based project management and bug-tracking tool, written using the Ruby on Rails framework. Redmine supports multiple projects, with its own wiki,...

Virtualizing Your Java Applications: Best Practices (JavaOne 2011)

2012-02-20T19:05:00.001+02:00

Justin Murray started his presentation ["Virtualizing Your Java Applications: Best Practices" (21860)] about five minutes early and began by saying that virtualization has arrived at the point where...

Concurrency Pattern: Producer and Consumer

2012-02-20T16:10:00.001+02:00

In my career spanning 15 years, the problem of Producer and Consumer is one that I have come across only a few times. In most programming cases, what we are doing is performing functions in a...

Set up a Spring 3 development environment

2012-02-20T12:33:00.001+02:00

This tutorial explains in short how to set-up a typical environment to develop Spring based applications. There is no prerequesite to this tutorial other then a working Windows XP client with...

JBoss AS 7.1.0.Final "Thunder" released - Java EE 6 Full Profile certified!

2012-02-20T01:35:00.000+02:00

After just about more than a year of development on JBoss AS7, we have now released 7.1.0.Final "Thunder"! The download is available at the usual place here. This is a really big achievement for the...

Variations for computing results from sequences in Scala

2012-02-17T19:25:00.000+02:00

Introduction A common question from students who are new to Scala is: What is the difference between using the map function on lists, using for expressions and foreach loops? One of the major sources...

Covering your tests with Cobertura, JUnit, HSQLDB, JPA

2012-02-17T16:27:00.000+02:00

Hello, how are you? Let us talk today about a very useful tool named “Cobertura”. This framework has the same functions of the Emma framework that we saw in another post. The major difference...

JavaFX 2.0 and Scala, Like Milk and Cookies

2012-02-17T13:07:00.000+02:00

JavaFX 2.0 and Scala are both great technologies individually, but work even better when used together. JavaFX 2.0 is a powerful rich client technology with advanced graphics, animation, and media...

Spring 3 MVC Exception Handlers

2012-02-17T01:26:00.000+02:00

The majority of the Spring 3 error handling sample code that I’ve come across only ever seems to give the simplest overview of its usage, yet how we handle errors is, some would say, more important...

21 books for Engineering Managers / Development Managers that guided me in 2011

2012-02-16T19:12:00.000+02:00

As an Engineering Manager / Development Manager aspiring to be a good software craftsman I want to promote good engineering practices, clean code, scalable solutions, all driven by self-org teams...

Technical Debt - How much is it Really Costing you?

2012-02-16T14:51:00.000+02:00

The idea behind the technical debt metaphor is that there is a cost to taking short cuts (intentional technical debt) or making mistakes (unintentional technical debt) and that the cost of not...

Patching Java at runtime

2012-02-16T11:47:00.000+02:00

This article will slightly highlight how to fix issues with third party libs that can't be circumvented are difficult to exclude/bypass/replaced simply provide no bugfix In such cases solving the...

Apache Mahout: Getting started

2012-02-16T01:45:00.001+02:00

Recently I have got an interesting problem to solve: how to classify text from different sources using automation? Some time ago I read about a project which does this as well as many other text...

MyBatis 3 - Spring integration tutorial

2012-02-15T19:18:00.002+02:00

As a first step of this tutorial, Spring MVC 3 CRUD example with MyBatis 3, we will define a MyBatis service that will help us to perform CRUD operation on database. We have a domain class for...

JavaFX 2.0 Bar and Scatter Charts (and JavaFX 2.1 StackedBarCharts)

2012-02-15T16:22:00.000+02:00

JavaFX 2.0 provides built-in capabilities for generating charts, a capability found within the javafx.scene.chart package. In this post, I look at creating bar charts and a scatter chart in using...

Play framework on the cloud made easy: Openshift module

2012-02-15T12:11:00.000+02:00

Just a couple of years ago finding an afordable hosting solution for a java web application was a hard task, and looking for a free one was an impossible mission. Not to mention that even thinking...

Agile’s Customer Problem

2012-02-15T01:37:00.000+02:00

Agile methods like Scrum and XP both rely on a close and collaborative relationship and continual interaction with the customer – the people who are paying for the software and who are going to use...

Apache Commons Lang StringUtils

2012-02-14T19:47:00.000+02:00

So, thought it'd be good to talk about another Java library that I like. It's been around for a while and is not perhaps the most exciting library, but it is very very useful. I probably make use of...

Essential Attack Surface Management

2012-02-14T15:58:00.001+02:00

To attack your system, to steal something or do something else nasty, the bad guys need to find a way in, and usually a way out as well. This is what Attack Surface Analysis is all about: mapping the...

Best Of The Week - 2012 - W06

2012-02-14T12:12:00.001+02:00

Hello guys, Time for the "Best Of The Week" links for the week that just passed. Here are some links that drew Java Code Geeks attention: * You need a code review: This article...

Win Free Copies of Android books

2012-02-14T10:00:00.000+02:00

Fellow Java geeks, We are pleased to announce that we have teamed up with Packt Publishing and we are organizing a Giveaway for you! 3 lucky winners stand a chance to win 2 copies of Packt's...