Securing your Tomcat app with SSL and Spring Security

If you’ve seen my last blog, you’ll know that I listed ten things that you can do with Spring Security.…

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Ten Things You Can Do With Spring Security

One You can specify the authorisation provider of your choice in your Spring XML config file. You do this by…

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Investigating Deadlocks – Part 5: Using Explicit Locking

In my last blog I looked at fixing my broken, deadlocking balance transfer sample code using both Java’s traditional synchronized keyword…

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Investigating Deadlocks – Part 4: Fixing the Code

In the last in this short series of blogs in which I’ve been talking about analysing deadlocks, I’m going to…

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Investigating Deadlocks – Part 3

In my previous two blogs in this series, part 1 and part 2, I’ve demonstrated how to create a piece…

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Investigating Deadlocks – Part 2

One of the most important requirements when investigating deadlocks is actually having a deadlock to investigate. In my last blog I…

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Investigating Deadlocks – Part 1

I’m sure we’ve all been there: it’s late, you’re hungry, your server has hung or your application’s running at snail’s…

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Spring 3.1: Caching and EhCache

If you look around the web for examples of using Spring 3.1’s built in caching then you’ll usually bump into…

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Spring 3.1 Caching and Config

I’ve recently being blogging about Spring 3.1 and its new caching annotations @Cacheable and @CacheEvict. As with all Spring features…

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