Java
Alright here is the short summary: Martijn and Eelco have done an amazing job writing a comprehensive yet easy to read book, that covers pretty much every aspect of Wicket and is more than recommended for everyone who wants to get started with Wicket.
Starting with the introduction they give you a good idea what Wicket [...]
While working on a Jackrabbit issue I came across a method that is called about a million times for certain requests. In this method an ArrayList instance and a few Integer instances were created on each call to eventually build up a list of ints. I thought I might give it a try and use [...]
Suns Troubleshooting Guide for Java provides a nice overview of available tools to analyze and monitor Java processes. I would guess that a lot of Java developers doesn’t know them.
I recently had to identify a performance problem on one of our production servers. The application appeared to hang every few seconds and then continue normal [...]
First of all you need version at least 2.0-beta-6 of the Maven Release Plugin if you want the branching feature. I just deleted the <home>/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-release-plugin folder to get Maven to download the latest version. If you never used the release plugin before it will download the latest version anyway.
Now let’s say you’ve got version 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT [...]
Recently I wanted to print our apps version number to the log file. Since I’m using Maven and the Maven Release Plugin to create releases of our app I was looking for an easy way to incorporate the version in the pom.xml into the release and display it.
Fortunately Maven already provides a hook to have [...]