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!

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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 after that. If [...]

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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 can’t [...]

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Are there no utilties for working with CharSequence objects? If anyone knows of any good, open-source CharSequences utilities, please let me know. CharSequences are really nice for high performance computing. They provide a convenient methodology for moving chunks of data around without having to make copies of the data. It would be nice if the [...]

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I’ve been very pleased with the @Override annotation in Java 5.0. If you’re not familiar with what does, it ensures that a method is overriding a method in a parent class. For example: class A { public void foo() {} } class B extends A { @Override public void foo() {} @Override public void bar() [...]

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This past week I’ve been doing a lot of work using Blobs with Postgresql in Java. There doesn’t seam to be a lot of documentation on using Blobs in Postgresql, luckily I found some good information in the Postgresql JDBC Mailing list regarding using Blobs with Java. I wrote some test code using plain JDBC [...]

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