Generics support for Apache commons collections
In my day to day work program I use the Apache Commons library quite a lot. One of those libraries is the commons collections library, of which I use the…
Author: gerbrand
Alternative to SQL
Database alternative, for people just browsing and scanning, I’ll write in staccato. Relational model pretty good, but we need a better implementation of the relational model, SQL, at least the…
Diagram software
Sometimes a diagram says more then a thousands words. That being said, what is good software to draw diagrams? I could quickly draw a diagram on my paper notepad, but…
Internet storage review
A non-profit organization that’s just starting up needed someway to share files and backup files. Mailing files and taking with them USB sticks and using the dvd-writer is a solution,…
Volatile keyword
What does the volatile keyword in Java do? For years I thought the keyword was quite obsolete, synchronization of values between the memory multiple processors seemed quite exotic. Since even…
Back from the grave: Model Driven Design
A few weeks ago I attended a symposium that was hold to celebrate the 25 year anniversary of Computer Science at the Utrecht University. In the drink after I talked to…
Hyves now also OpenId provider
OpenID is gaining popularity! Hyves is now also OpenId-provider, as published on the (Dutch) site Webwereld. This means you can use your hyve account to login to any site that…
Threads-alternative in JEE: using the timerservice
A common problem in in developing Java Enterprise (JEE or J2EE) application is working with threads, or more generally executing code asynchronously. Starting and instantiating threads in the old-fashioned java…
InfoQ, Tim Bray on the Future of the web
I often view or read the InfoQ, a site with articles on software development, programming. Almost all content they publish is very good. One I just saw was: Tim Bray…
Open JMX consoles
If you search on google on DummyResourceAdapter, you’ll find (at least currently) a lot of open administration consoles of JBoss, the JMX-console. These consoles should not be available to the…