Difference between Interfaces and Abstract Classes
Good article and best explanation of one of the common question
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Making IntelliJ IDEA Run Faster and Better
I took the time to listen to the, about one hour long, IntelliJ IDEA Architecture and Performance video, by Dmitry Jemerov from Jetbrains. Most of the... more »
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OSGi for Beginners
This article is the first of a series of articles aimed at teaching developers how to create OSGi bundles, including dependencies included with the... more »
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SpringSource Application Platform
So, Spring Source has been able to keep a secret from us :-) Secretly, they have been developing what looks a lot like a new application server, not... more »
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DZone Really Popular Posts Mashup With Yahoo Pipes
Often, I find the DZone Popular links feed a bit flooded. I subscribe to it, to follow interesting developer discussions, but sometimes I find, that a... more »
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Will Google App Engine Support Java? Can It?
This must come from the “They know something we don’t know” department, because Google’s newly announced Google App Engine lets you program in any... more »
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Spring: A Quick Journey Through Spring AOP
AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming) in Spring. Quite different from the theoretical AOP implementation.
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Online Password Manager - Would You Dare Use This Software?
I have a rough sketch of an online password manager application in my head, but I want to hear your opinion about it beforehand. Especially about... more »
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Setting up Spring Dynamic Modules (OSGi) with Eclipse - A step-by-step tutorial
A step-by-step tutorial on how to set up Spring Dynamic Modules within Eclipse in order to create, build and run your own Spring-DM based bundles in... more »
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What's new in Commons Lang 2.4?
Commons Lang 2.4 is out, and the obvious question is: "So what? What's changed?" . This article aims to briefly cover the changes and save you from... more »
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Making a HTML select readonly
For some time ago I needed to make a single select element readonly. This meant that the user should be able to see all values in the list and not be... more »
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HTTP directory listing alternative
Pointing to an example of PHP code that does directory listings, when the server config is not accessible
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Fixedformat4j - A Java API for working with fixed formatted textfiles
Using annotations and annotation processing, to read and write fixed format files to and from Java objects.
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fixedformat4j api - bring on your feedback!
Earlier I wrote about reading and writing fixed formatted text files. Fortunately you all were eager to comment and provide suggestions on how to do... more »
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Best practise when handling tags and branches (using subversion)
A good article on how tagging, branching and merging can be done in an organized way.
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Log5j and The State of Log4j Version 2
I just took log5j for a spin. For those who does not know, log5j is a Java5 enhancement of the log4j api. It provides two new features on top of... more »
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Manipulating fixed formatted text files in Java
I am working on a project where we need to manipulate fixed formatted text files. The fixed formatted files are used as protocol for interchanging... more »
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ActiveRecord Associative Array Directly Into The Database
SystemSetting turned out to be a real ActiveRecord model class, which simply acted as an associative array directly into a table in the database. And... more »
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Java5: From Ordinal Value To Enum Instance
The enum type introduced in Java5 is quite powerful, but I miss a factory method to get an enum instance from its ordinal value.
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5 Good Things Maven Brought To The Table
Maven is getting a good deal of backlash these times, latest from Tapestry God Howard and from Graeme Rocher the Grails God, but I have also not been... more »
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Using IDEA Quicklists Instead Of Keybindings
I just did a new installation on a completely new box, and had to configure IDEA from bottom up. On of the things I needed, was to add some... more »
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Java Enum Tricks
This article gives a brief overview of enumerations in Java 5+, and a few tricks you can use with them.
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10 Tips on JPA Domain Modelling
This post is a collection of tips on what I think is good advice, when domain modelling in Java with JPA as ORM mapping technology. Do you agree? Do... more »
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Why Override Annotation is Cool
Since Java5 which brought us annotations, Java has had the @Override annotation. But I don't see it used very often, so here I will try and explain... more »
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How Nicely Decoupled a Web Client Flex Is
Back half a year ago, I blogged about choosing a RIA framework, which I found hard. At that time, we ended up with Flex2 as our choice, and the next... more »
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