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I'm a contract Java developer working in Melbourne for the past 10+ years.
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Tag Archives: tips
How to get the running tasks for a Java Executor…
I just had the issue of debugging a large concurrent job that ran using Java’s Executor and ExecutorService classes for concurrency. The job comprised of roughly 50,000 tasks submitted recursively over a multi-GB data set that took 5hrs to process. … Continue reading
Writing reflective unit tests to improve code quality
I’ve found that writing JUnit tests that do classpath scanning combined with reflection is a way to write unit tests that cross-cut the entire application. This can be useful to prevent anti-patterns, enforce code standards or just to prevent common … Continue reading
Posted in Java, Software Engineering
Tagged Java, junit, tips, visural-common, warp-persist
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Quick Tip – Make Anything A Windows Service
I recently had to get nginx running as a Windows service and I came across a little project called “winsw” (Windows Service Wrapper) which was created by Kohsuke Kawaguchi – creator of Hudson/Jenkins. Apparently he created it while at Sun for … Continue reading
Demystifying HttpServletRequest properties…
I always find myself writing little test cases to figure out which methods to call on HttpServletRequest to get path / parameter information when doing low level Servlet and Filter programming. The method naming and Javadoc is pretty poor for … Continue reading
