Pre Java EE 7 alternative to JPA 2.1 unsynchronized persistence context

Unsynchronized persistence context in Java EE 7 JPA 2.1 introduced the concept of unsynchronized persistence context which allows fine grained…

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Automated provisioning of JMS resources in Java EE 7

JMS 2.0 (part of the Java EE 7 Platform) introduced lots of nice features. One of these was the ability…

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Implementing auto retry in Java EE applications

Initially, I wanted to call this blog – ‘Flexible timeouts with interceptor driven retry policies‘ – but then I thought…

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Basics of scaling Java EE applications

To be honest, ‘scalability’ is an exhaustive topic and generally not well understood. More often than not, its assumed to…

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JAX-RS and JSON-P integration

This short post talks about support for JSON-P in JAX-RS 2.0 JSON-P …? The JSON Processing API (JSON-P) was introduced…

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Native CDI Qualifiers: @Any and @Default

Let’s take a look at the out-of-the-box qualifiers in CDI There are three qualifiers declared by the CDI specification –…

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Introductory NoSQL stuff

While some of you might be NoSQL gurus, there is often a lack of solid knowledge about NoSQL in general…

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New in JMS 2.0

This post lists ALL of the new APIs (interfaces/classes/annotations etc.) introduced in JMS 2.0 (part of the Java EE 7…

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Random JCache stuff: multiple Providers and JMX beans

JCache (JSR 107) is the Java standard for Caching… enough said. No more introductory stuff. This is a quick fire…

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