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Exception Handling in Real-Life Java Applications

Exception handling in an application can often be varied, inconsistent, or inappropriate. This article proposes an API to make exception handling more robust and efficient.

June 22, 2016

by Jalal Kiswani, PhD

· 51,984 Views · 31 Likes

Java Websocket Containers: The Possibilities

With the Java Websocket API being integrated directly into Java EE7, check out how Tyrus, the reference implementation, integrated with containers for maximum effect.

June 21, 2016

by Abhishek Gupta

CORE

· 8,746 Views · 4 Likes

Lightweight Docker Images for Java Apps

If you're searching for a way to get your Docker images down to a more manageable size, it might just be easier to choose a different starting point.

Updated June 20, 2016

by Kevin Hooke

· 5,019 Views · 3 Likes

Why Java Is a Purely Object-Oriented Language... Or Why Not

Java—is it actually object-oriented? Let's take a look deep into Java to try to figure it out.

June 16, 2016

by Naresh Joshi

· 31,894 Views · 9 Likes

Relation of Middleware to Microservices, Docker, and Cloud-Native Architectures

This rather long, but extremely well-researched article by Kai Wähner is a follow-up and update to his previous article "Microservices and whether that spells the death of the Enterprise Service Bus and other middleware." In this piece, he discusses how relevant microservices, containers, and a cloud-native architecture is for middleware. Take the time and read this... it's well worth it!

June 10, 2016

by Kai Wähner

CORE

· 32,094 Views · 10 Likes

Java EE 8 in Crisis!

Java EE is in crisis with a clear lack of support from Oracle resulting in EE8's delivery being significantly delayed.

June 10, 2016

by Peter Pilgrim

· 17,286 Views · 13 Likes

Java Remote Method Invocation with Redisson

This article shows how you can use a Redis-based in-memory data grid for Java remote method invocations.

June 10, 2016

by Nikita Koksharov

· 10,678 Views · 4 Likes

Performance Tuning Ideas for Apache Camel

Sometimes, it might be worth squeezing few more milliseconds from your Camel routes. Here are some ideas for tuning Camel based systems, which may apply for you.

June 10, 2016

by Bilgin Ibryam

· 32,772 Views · 8 Likes

Is Java Dying? (In Knuth's Up-Arrow Notation) [Comic]

Yep↑↑↑↑n.

June 10, 2016

by Daniel Stori

CORE

· 80,140 Views · 161 Likes

Testing the Hibernate Layer With Docker

We are all writing unit tests for the service layer, but the persistence layer, in contrast, is rarely tested. Luckily, Docker offers TestContainers.

June 9, 2016

by Kai Winter

· 4,828 Views · 4 Likes

Running Spring Boot in a Docker Container

A brilliant from-the-start introduction to using Spring Boot on Docker. This article even takes you through what Docker is so you've no excuse not to give it a whirl.

June 9, 2016

by John Thompson

· 99,227 Views · 11 Likes

Observations From a History of Java Backwards Incompatibility

Dustin Marx discusses corner cases where backwards compatibility can have ill effects on your Java applications.

June 9, 2016

by Dustin Marx

· 13,272 Views · 4 Likes

Swift for the Java Guy Part 2: The Basics

This article goes over the basics of class construction in Swift, and compares and contrasts class construction in Swift and Java.

June 8, 2016

by Julian Exenberger

· 20,221 Views · 2 Likes

How to Make Groovy as Fast as Java

Did you know Groovy has options to make your code run just as fast as Java? Take a look at this article to see what you can do to increase Groovy's speed.

June 8, 2016

by David E Jones

· 26,951 Views · 15 Likes

Using Java 8? Please Avoid Functional Vomit

Most developers suck. I think everyone can acknowledge there is a significant portion of the developer community in any language (but particularly Java) that just doesn’t know how to write good code.

June 6, 2016

by Sam Atkinson

· 59,870 Views · 133 Likes

Add Custom Functionality to a Spring Data Repository

This how-to article explains how to get some extra mileage and flexibility out of Spring Data repositories.

June 6, 2016

by Emmanouil Gkatziouras

CORE

· 6,306 Views · 6 Likes

Troubleshoot OutOfMemoryError: Unable to Create New Native Thread

"java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread" got you down? Check out this article for some tips on how to deal with it.

June 4, 2016

by Ram Lakshmanan

CORE

· 173,043 Views · 12 Likes

Why a Single Java Source File Can Not Have More Than One Public Class

This article looks behind-the-scenes at why Java won't allow more than one public class in a single Java source file.

June 3, 2016

by Naresh Joshi

· 82,716 Views · 8 Likes

Microservice Architectures With Spring Cloud and Docker

How to set up a microservice architecture using Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Docker, and some of Netflix's open source tools.

Updated June 2, 2016

by Alexander Lukyanchikov

· 311,262 Views · 306 Likes

Your Own Swagger UI on Liberty

IBM Websphere Liberty comes with great out of the box support for Swagger, including their own branded Swagger UI. You might, however, want to create your own branded UI.

June 2, 2016

by Phillip Kruger

· 17,131 Views · 3 Likes

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