Learn How to Boost your Java Performance with Ehcache

Published May 31st, 2010 Under General | Leave a Comment

Greg Luck, the founder or Ehcache, shares his wisdom on implementing effective Java caching strategies in general and in Hibernate. Ehcache is an open source, standards-based cache used in a wide array of applications to boost performance, offload the database and simplify scalability. Greg walks through the Spring Pet Clinic as an application example and show us how to tune it for maximum performance, both when using Hibernate and when caching result sets directly. He show the comparative application performance of Ehcache EX 1.8 versus MySQL, Memcached and a leading In-Memory Data Grid, including the impressive performance increases from the latest Terracotta 3.2 Server Array. Finally, Greg discusses some upcoming features in Ehcache 2.0 such as JTA, bulk loading, the new Hibernate 3.3 provider and write-behind.

Getting Started with TDD in Java using Eclipse

Published April 12th, 2010 Under General | Leave a Comment

Starting with an empty workspace, this video begins with a demonstration of basic Test Driven Development in Java using Eclipse. From basic tests and basic production code, to refactoring, and some splashes of Behavior Driven Development, watch production code get created test first.


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Java #06 – Exceptions and Input Validation

Published March 17th, 2010 Under General | Leave a Comment

Explains Java exceptions, the try-catch block, and using a loop and try-catch to validate input. Download source code from http://java.martincarlisle.com.

How to Create a Java Server Faces (JSF) Development Environment with Apache Tomcat + Suns JDK

Published January 29th, 2010 Under General | Leave a Comment

This tutorial demonstrates how to configure your Windows XP environment in order to do some JSF development. The idea is that first you need to install the JDK, configure the JAVA_HOME environment variable, and then install the Tomcat Servlet & JSP engine. With the JAVA_HOME set, and the bin directory of the Tomcat6 server located, it’s just a matter of running the startup.bat file and your tomcat server can be found at http://localhost:8080. After installing and configuration Tomcat, further tutorials demonstrate how to obtain the JSF JAR files from the mojarra project (jsf-api.jar & jsf-api.jar). We even recommend finding the jstl.jar and standard.jar files from the examples in the Tomcat installation.

Lessons Learned From Java EE’s Evolution

Published January 18th, 2010 Under General | Leave a Comment

Rod Johnson talks about Java’s evolution, in particular J2EE, presenting the lessons to be learned from its failures, like committee-led standards and container-managed frameworks, preparing to avoid such mistakes in the future.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Lessons-Learned-from-Java-EE

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