I made the first release of my Asynchronous File I/O in Java library. The .jar file can be downloaded here. This release uses a java.util.concurrent.Executor to call java.nio.channels.FileChannel methods in a separate thread than the caller. This is certainly not the most ideal way of doing AIO but it’s a start and [...]
I just read a great IBM Developer Works article on Eclipse plug-ins for finding coding problems. I’ve used some of these plug-in like PMD but I didn’t realize there was an alternative to Clover for code coverage. Very cool!
I just posted the API to the Asynchronous File I/O in Java framework I’ve been working on at Apache. My plan is to have some functional code posted by January 27. The initial code release will use the java.util.concurrent package to provide asynchronous operations. Support for POSIX AIO will come out soon [...]
At work we’re moving to a centralized LDAP tree for all authentication. The infrastructure guys are still working out some of the kinks so in the mean time, they gave us access to a test server that we can use for development.
I have accessed LDAP trees from Java a number of times. I [...]