Java Concurrency Tutorial – CountDownLatch

Some concurrency utilities in Java naturally get more attention than others just because they serve general purpose problems instead of…

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Java Concurrency Tutorial – Blocking Queues

As discussed in Part 3, the thread pools introduced in Java 1.5 provided core support that was quickly a favourite…

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Sometimes in Java, One Layout Manager Is Not Enough

Most often when developing Java Swing applications, we need to use several layout managers in several nested panels. This is…

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Java Concurrency Tutorial – Callable, Future

One of the beautiful things about Java from its very first release was the ease with which we could write…

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Java Concurrency Tutorial – Thread Pools

One of the most generally useful concurrency enhancements delivered in Java 1.5 was the introduction of customizable thread pools. These…

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Java Concurrency Tutorial – Reentrant Locks

Java’s synchronized keyword is a wonderful tool – it allows us a simple and reliable way to synchronize access to…

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Mapping Objects to Multiple XML Schemas – Weather Example

I have written previous posts on EclipseLink JAXB (MOXy)‘s @XmlPath and external binding file extensions. In this post I will…

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Java Concurrency Tutorial – Semaphores

This is the first part in a series that we’re going to be doing on Java concurrency. Specifically, we are…

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The Java Logging Mess

Every application needs logging. And right now there are a lot of options on what exactly to use for logging…

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