Handling Flux Database outages using BoneCP Connection Pool

In Flux, we have made improvements in recent versions to handle database or network failures and recover from such failures gracefully without needing to restart Flux. Sometimes, it would be nice to notify administrators about these failures and they can act upon them in case of an unscheduled outage. Flux is dependent on the database … Continue reading Handling Flux Database outages using BoneCP Connection Pool →

Introducing Try With Resources, can project Coin become crown jewel of Java 7?

Try-with-resources (originally known as Automatic Resource Management) is one of the Project Coin proposals that made its way into recent JDK 7 builds. Traditionally, developers had to manually terminate any resources (Files, Database connections, etc) they use in their applications and sometimes it was painful to keep track of those things and failing to do … Continue reading Introducing Try With Resources, can project Coin become crown jewel of Java 7? →