Parsing an Excel File into JavaBeans using jXLS

This post shows how you can use jXLS to parse an Excel file into a list of JavaBeans. Here is…

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Throttling Task Submission with a BlockingExecutor

The JDK’s java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor allows you to submit tasks to a thread pool and uses a BlockingQueue to hold submitted tasks.…

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Throttling Task Submission with a BlockingExecutor

The JDK’s java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor allows you to submit tasks to a thread pool and uses a BlockingQueue to hold submitted tasks.…

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Shell Scripting – Best Practices

Most programming languages have a set of “best practices” that should be followed when writing code in that language. However,…

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Guava 15 – New features

A new version of the Guava library was released earlier this month and contains several new features and improvements. Here…

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Java 7 Swing: Creating Translucent and Shaped Windows

Java 7 Swing supports windows with transparency and non-rectangular shapes. The following screenshot shows a circular window created with 75%…

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JUnit: Naming Individual Test Cases in a Parameterized Test

A couple of years ago I wrote about JUnit Parameterized Tests. One of the things I didn’t like about them…

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Analysing a Java Core Dump

In this post, I will show you how you can debug a Java core file to see what caused your…

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Testing Expected Exceptions with JUnit Rules

This post shows how to test for expected exceptions using JUnit. Let’s start with the following class that we wish…

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