Extending Guava caches to overflow to disk

Caching allows you to significantly speed up applications with only little effort. Two great cache implementations for the Java platform…

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Proxies done right with Guava’s AbstractInvocationHandler

Not too often but sometimes we are forced to write custom dynamic proxy class using java.lang.reflect.Proxy. There is really no…

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Object-based micro-locking for concurrent applications by using Guava

One of the presumably most annoying problems with writing concurrent Java applications is the handling of resources that are shared…

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Fine-Grained Concurrency with the Guava Striped Class

This post is going to cover how to use the Striped class from Guava to achieve finer-grained concurrency. The ConcurrentHashMap…

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Configuring Hadoop with Guava MapSplitters

In this post we are going to provide a new twist on passing configuration parameters to a Hadoop Mapper via…

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Blog Categorisation using Encog, ROME, JSoup and Google Guava

Continuing with Programming Collection Intelligence  (PCI) the next exercise was using the distance scores to pigeonhole a list of blogs…

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Guava’s EventBus – Simple Publisher/Subscriber

Looking over recent additions to Google’s Guava Libraries Release 10 I noticed the addition of EventBus. This is a lightweight…

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5 Reasons to use Guava

Guava is an open source library containing many classes for Java and written by Google. It’s a potentially useful source…

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Google Guava Cache with regular expression patterns

Quite recently I’ve seen a nice presentation about Google Guava and we came to the conclusion in our project that…

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