How to Fail With Drools or Any Other Tool/Framework/Library

What I like most at conferences are reports of someone’s failure to do or implement something for they’re the best…

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Eclipse 3.6 vs IntelliJ IDEA 10.5: Pros and Cons

After having worked with Eclipse for over 5 years I’ve came to use IntelliJ IDEA intensively on a J2EE project…

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Log4j, Stat4j, SMTPAppender Integration – Aggregating Error Logs to Send Email When Too Many

Our development team wanted to get notified as soon as something goes wrong in our production system, a critical Java…

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Practical Introduction into Code Injection with AspectJ, Javassist, and Java Proxy

The ability to inject pieces of code into compiled classes and methods, either statically or at runtime, may be of…

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Hacking Jasper to Get Object Model of a JSP Page

To perform some checks and statistical analysis on my JSPs I needed a DOM-like, hierarchical model of elements contained in…

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Refactoring Hudson God Class

Jakub Holy, one of our JCG partners, has recently shared his experience at attempting to refactor Hudson, the main class…

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Code quality matters to the customers. A lot.

Some people argue that the main taks of a developer is to deliever working, value-bringing software to the customer and…

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Save money from Agile Development

If You Don’t Use Pair Programming and Code Reviews as Teaching Tools You Waste Money There is an easy way…

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Performance Anxiety – on Performance Unpredictability, Its Measurement and Benchmarking

Joshua Bloch had a great talk called Performance Anxiety (30min, via Parleys slides also available ) at Devoxx 2010, the…

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