Make Sense out of your Stack Traces
I recently came across this cool tool http://www.stackifier.com/ which allows you to make so much sense out of your stack traces. Once I have locked on a stack I want to look at, this tool makes it so much easier.
Category: Java
Are annotations bad?
We sacrifice the art of writing good and performant code for the short term gains of improving developer productivity.
Annotations can be powerful but only when used to add context and information to the code. But trying to configure your application with them is nothing less that a crime.
Host projects on Maven Central
Recently, when I decided to make my projects available to the Java Community under Open Source license, I did a lot of things like Hosting my code on Google Code, using Maven to build and test the code and also making sure that I have a project site up and running. However, even after all […]
Unit Testing Framework: EAMSteps
EAMSteps is a framework that makes Unit Testing easier because of its following principles: – External data store for test data like excel spreadsheet – Automated assertions using co-related inputs and outputs – Minimal lines of code to get started It all started in 2009, when I decided that in long term I would need […]
Unit Testing: EAMSteps
EAMSteps is a framework that makes Unit Testing easier because of its following principles:
– External data store for test data like excel spreadsheet
– Automated assertions using co-related inputs and outputs
– Minimal lines of code to get started
It all started in 2009, when I decided that in long term I would need to have a framework in place that will help me meet my objectives and I started to look for any existing tools. When I did not find any framework that would help me, I decided that it was time to write one and here after 2 years I have something breathing
A new OSS project: iFramework
A set of utilities and classes that I have found useful over the years with features like Improved Loggers, Database Setup and many more.
Concurrency Pattern: Producer and Consumer
In enterprise world, where performance holds the key to everything; the Concurrency patterns bring to table a very interesting and effective solution. One specific pattern Producer and Consumer allow us to write programs with high throughput and get the job done much quickly. This pattern provides us a solution for a common problem where we have to migrate data form System 1 to System 2 and in the process we need to do three tasks: Load data from Database based on groups, Process and Update the records back
TestNG or JUnit
For many years now, I have always found myself going back to TestNG whenever it comes to doing Unit Testing with Java Code. Everytime, I picked up TestNG, people have asked me why do I go over to TestNG especially with JUnit is provided by the default development environment like Eclipse or Maven. Continuing the […]
NTLM Authentication in Java
Many years back, I moved over into Java world and when I was asked to implement my very first security implementation, I realized that there was no easy way to do this and many clients would actually want us to use LDAP for authentication and authorization. For many years, I continued to use that. And, then one day in a discussion with a client, we were asked to provide SSO implementation and client did not have an existing setup like SiteMinder. I started to think about if we can go about using NTML based authentication. The reason that was possible was because the application we were asked to build was to be used within the organization itself and all the people were required to login into a domain.
Development Kit – your wishlist
Today after a while I decided to get back to development and started to setup my Laptop with variety of development tools and my fetch my projects from hard drives. As I sit down to get started once again, I am thinking of what all should I get to get back to development. Also, this […]
Scratch Pad 