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ThreadLocal, and how it holds apps together
What is ThreadLocal and why is it important? It’s one of the key pieces of glue logic in modern Java web applications, so read on.
Talking at “Nerd Interface” - Machine Learning for Clustering & Sentiment Analysis
Machine Learning: Clustering & Sentiment Analysis
Understanding Magic Dust in Java and the JVM (part 2)
The technical nitty gritty
Understanding Magic Dust in Java and the JVM (part 1)
One of main skills of a seasoned Java developer is understanding how things work under the hood. There are many things that developers take for granted, wit...
CJUG Meetup Presentation “Scalable Services with JMS, Spring Integration and Apache Camel”
CJUG Meetup Presentation “Scalable Services with JMS, Spring Integration and Apache Camel” Last May I had the pleasure of presenting at Chicago Java Users G...
ActiveMQ, prefetch limits, the Dispatch Queue and transactions
The objective of this article is to describe the interaction of ActiveMQ and its consumers, and how message delivery is affected by the use of transactions, ...
Using Apache Camel and CDI for creating scalable distributed services backed by JMS (part 1)
As an exercise and follow up to my Spring Integration post, and after a discussion with a coworker, I decided to reimplement the test application using Apach...
A simple CSV MessageBodyWriter for JAX-RS using Jackson
This is a very simple MessageBodyWriter that will allow you to output a List of objects as CSV from a JAX-RS webservice. Such services can be useful with fra...