The following is not only a personal reminder for me but also a first try to answer some questions on Stack Overflow… You can create custom object types in an Oracle database like so: CREATE TYPE t_demo_object AS OBJECT ( some_number NUMBER, some_string varchar2(32) ) /CREATE TYPE t_demo_object AS OBJECT ( some_number number, some_string varchar2(32) […]
Update: Please take a note of comment #5 by DSurber. He works for Oracle and sheds some light on named parameters. In short: The names of the parameter do not refer to named placeholders in statement (like in JPA for example) but to PL/SQL named parameters!. Thank you very much. You might have wondered what […]
Java Authentication and Authorization Service aka JAAS is a pretty neat way to build a pluggable authentication mechanism for a Java application. My goal was to build a Single Sign-on (SSO) mechanism targeted on Windows machines (Windows XP SP3, Windows 7) that uses the cached kerberos ticket. The jaas configuration should be pretty simple: name_of_the_login_context […]
The net.sf.ehcache.transaction.TransactionTimeoutException is one of those unchecked RuntimeExceptions you should take care of if you use ehcache. If this exceptions occurs you must explicitly rollback the ongoing transaction, otherwise all further requests to start an ehcache transaction from within the current thread will fail with another net.sf.ehcache.transaction.TransactionException as the cache is in an inconsistent state. […]
You don’t need JConsole or similar for just displaying the approximate uptime of your application respectively your Java Virtual Machine: import java.lang.management.ManagementFactory; public class Demo { public static void main(String… args) { final long uptime = ManagementFactory.getRuntimeMXBean().getUptime(); System.out.println(String.format("Up for %dms", uptime)); } }import java.lang.management.ManagementFactory; public class Demo { public static void main(String… args) { […]