Category Archives: Java

Java 7, this is it?

Original post can be found at It-Eye

Java 7 was released, so I gave it a spin to see what kind of improvements were made. While testing some new features I went online to look for not so obvious changes as well. Here is a short list of the new features and improvements in Java 7. Continue reading

10 Minutes Hands-On: Apache Camel

Original post can be found at It-Eye

Integration frameworks are getting more popular because you can easily integrate services or you can use them to integrate partial application parts to one application. To show you how easy it has become to integrate we did a 10 Minutes Hands-On at the It-Eye open space and this was the working result of that.

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How to use embedded glassfish from junit?

In my previous post I explaind that with the new EJB you can use an embedded EJB container to test your EJB. But there is also another way and that is to use embedded glassfish that is started from inside an junit. The nice thing here is that it you can start an embedded glassfish with the container you need, with EJB or with WEB or both if you need. Continue reading

Small JVM named Jamvm

Some of you may have heard about Jamvm, for all others, Jamvm is an very small opensource JVM. You may ask your self why do I need it, now there are couple of reasons you would like to use Jamvm. For example you want to run java on an mobile device or a router with very limited space on it, or you want to distribute your Java application but don’t want to depend on installed Java. At the end possibilities are endless. In this post I am going to show you how to compile and use JVM. Continue reading

Java 64 bit performance problem

This is going to be a weird blog post so I am warning you. The reason why I am saying this is because I will try to go in to details about my weird performance problem but I am not able to say everything because ….. The short line of the story is like this, I got an Java application who is using an 3th party jar and this jar has weird performance issues when running 32bit and 64 bit JVM.
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Xerces Anonymous types

What does everyone do when using open source project? UHM… find the binary and download it. Oke, that’s not bad but it sometimes pays off to go and use the sources of that project. By sources I mean look at the CVS/SVN repository of the project. Why you may ask?

The reason it pays is because sometimes in the repository you find the latest fixes that are not released yet. The same is with the this issue with xerces I stumbled upon. Continue reading