Implementing a light weight web service trigger in Flux

Aloha from Hawaii! Shame on me to not blog for months. Well, honestly I have been quite busy during the past few months. With the big move to Hawaii in December and the recent launch of Floify kept me occupied. Although moving to a new place is fun, getting settled on an island can sometimes … Continue reading Implementing a light weight web service trigger in Flux →

Jersey Client API – made for each other

In my earlier blog entry on Jersey, I used HTTPClient API and curl command line utility as the clients. I had not mentioned about the Jersey Client API. It is part of the Jersey distribution. I would prefer using Jersey Client API as it is modeled around the concepts of JAX-RS spec. Let us quickly … Continue reading Jersey Client API – made for each other →

ActiveMQ – shifting message brokering market landscape

Message brokering markets were once dominated by heavy weights and required huge investments by enterprises for implementing such solutions. Vendors made huge bucks out of it by selling such solutions and support. Is this still considered a niche market? I personally don't think so. I am definitely not against vendors offering such solutions, but the … Continue reading ActiveMQ – shifting message brokering market landscape →

Effective Java v2 finally ships

Effective Java second edition finally started shipping this week. I dreamed of this day in one of my earlier blog post 🙂 As predicted, it finally made it this year during JavaOne. Even this year, Joshua had a session on "More 'Effective Java'" - third in a row since 2006. The book was published on … Continue reading Effective Java v2 finally ships →

Singletons exposed

A Google Code project on detecting singletons in Java code has released its code under Apache Software License. This tool is useful for detecting singletons based on their usage pattern and these patterns are classified as {S, H, M, F}+ingleton. The author introduces these new terminologies based on whether the Singleton is implemented in a … Continue reading Singletons exposed →