Demonstrating Java Type Erasure
Type erasure is a term many people in the Java world do not know or understand. I think it is important to at least understand what it means…not the byte code behind it, but the semantics and its...
View ArticleConcurrent Asynchronous API Programming in Java
Several sites are moving towards an API program to allow easier access as well as mashup data. The use of an API is considerably different from typical methodologies such as direct database access. The...
View ArticleAccessing Servlet Container Temporary Directory
As part of a recent project, I had a need to generate classes to a temporary directories. Currently, this was being done by a simple File-based path. However, that has two downfalls: the paths are tied...
View ArticleUnderstanding Generics in Collections
Generics in Java is one of those features where almost everyone uses but very people, including myself, really understand. I had a conversation just today about understanding a use case of generics...
View ArticleJava Bean Introspector and Covariant/Generic Returns
Unfortunately, there is a rather unsettling bug in the JDK in the java.beans package for Introspector when handling bridge methods. For those unfamiliar with that term, JDK 5 created a new modifier...
View ArticleHandling Environments in Java EE Projects
Web applications in Java EE (and even SE) have many components from MDB configuration to JMS configuration to Servlet configuration to JPA/database configuration. Each of these components has their own...
View ArticleGood Use Case for Server-Sent Events
Although some would say there are two competing standards for handling live events on the web, websockets and server-sent events (event source), they are really very different from each other with...
View ArticleRFC: Add ‘between’ and ‘in’ to modern day languages
One of the recent additions to TeaTrove I am making is adding the between and in operator. This may seem trivial, but they are quite powerful as well as generally better performing, not to mention...
View ArticleBudget Analyzer Application: Server Side via Grails
In this post, I will present one of my newest applications that I built using Grails and jQuery Mobile frameworks. I hope to present this as a more real world example of using Grails along with using...
View ArticleMy Thoughts on Merging JAXB and JSON Binding Annotations
See my Gist below for more information.
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