Top stories published by Yohan Liyanage in 2010

In this article of the Know the JVM Series, we will be looking at yet another feature that is offered by the JVM, which is not very well known, and used by the developers. Shutdown Hooks are a special construct that allows developers to plug in a piece of…

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Nov 21, 2010

The Dark Art of Logging

Logging is a mechanism of keeping track of the runtime behavior of an application, mainly for debugging / tracing purposes. In almost all of significantly complex / vital applications, maintaining a proper application log is a must; hence, almost all developers are quite familiar with…

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Nov 13, 2010

Know the JVM Series — 4 — Thread Locals

Thread Local Storage (TLS) is a special construct in multi-threaded programming, which allows to associate a variable with a particular thread. This is different from normal variables, which are associated with a process. In other words, a normal variable will…

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Oct 24, 2010

Know the JVM Series -3- When Weaker is Better: Understanding Soft, Weak and Phantom References

How many times have we created various object instances, and assign those to reference variables? We all know very well that Java has automatic garbage collection; so…

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Sep 5, 2010

Know the JVM Series — 1 — The Uncaught Exception Handler

The Java API, backed by the JVM provides tons of features and facilities to Java developers, which could be used to get things done easily for certain specific scenarios. However, these features are often overlooked by developers…

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Aug 8, 2010

Experience — Does it really matter?

I had the thought of writing a blog post regarding this matter several times in the past, and this time, I thought of finally putting it down here. In our industry (Software Development), one of the key concerns (if not ‘the concern’) in recruitment and career…

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Jun 1, 2010

Changing the default JBossWS (JAX-WS) Web Service End Point Address

If you are working with JAX-WS on JBoss (in my case version 4.2.3.GA) to expose SLSBs as Web Services, you might notice that in the generated WSDL, the end-point address is set as the machine’s name or localhost…

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Aug 3, 2010

What’s harder, synchronizing 2 threads or synchronizing 1000 threads?

Recently, I came across an interesting presentation by Paul Tyma (Senior Engineer at Google / CEO at ManyBrain Inc), regarding the performance of Java NIO vs classic IO APIs. The presentation was titled as…

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Oct 29, 2010

Nothing Personal; It’s Just Business

Recently, Apple informed that they will be deprecating the JDK in Mac OS X 10.7, code named Lion. With the history of Apple being indifferent towards Java as a platform (for example, not supporting Java on their i Platforms — iPhone, iPad), this is not a suprise…

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Sep 18, 2010

Vim Quick Reference Sheet

The well known Vi editor, and it’s evolved counter-part Vim editor are well known among the Linux community. Most of us use these editors when dealing with server configurations, etc., in our day-to-day work. But most of the users (including myself) use only a very small subset of…

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