SuperMan bound by Java Monitors

Its a dark time in the life of Super Man. Jor-El wants him to go on a voyage to prepare…

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Dev vs QA, should there really be a distinction?

We had our scrum of scrum meetings last Wednesday where all scrum masters meet up with our line manager to…

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Checking out what is new with Servlet 3.0

With the JEE6 specification hitting the market, some major changes have taken place with respect to how you would approach…

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How cool is integration testing with Spring and Hibernate

I am guilty of not writing integration testing (At least for database related transactions) up until now. So in order…

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Locking with a semaphore : An example

Concurrency is one aspect that brings along interesting challenges along with it. If not correctly handled, it brings about race…

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Android Tutorial: Enter the DROID World

Well quite frankly i’m late to the game, but here i am, getting my hands dirty(or wet or whatever you…

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Hibernate lazy/eager loading example

This post will focus on why and how we use the concepts known as LAZY and EAGER loading in an…

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Setting up JNDI with Jetty (Embedded)

I was running embedded Jetty on my developmentwork-space saving some time on vicious cycle of compiling and deployment. I have…

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Understanding Java Weak References

I could not pay attention to the blog in the recent times and first and foremost I must apologize for…

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