All posts in 'Java'

#WJAX 2012

08-Nov-12

Another year, another W-JAX. It seems to become a jour-fix, being in Munich in November. As last year i only can recommend staying in the Westin Grand if your company is willing to afford this. You’ll have a much better conference experience than commuting throughout the city for your hotel or hostel. When i started […]

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JPA Criteria Query or plain SQL

25-Sep-12

Note: The following stuff is not Hibernate specific but is true for every JPA2 provider and falls into the category of JPA criteria query. Some days ago i just saw this video Christin Gorman about Hibernate. Although i don’t agree with her and i actually do like hibernate as a great tool, there are certainly […]

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Java 7, JAAS and Kerberos Single Sign-on vs. newer Windows Systems

23-Jul-12

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 […]

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Take care of net.sf.ehcache.transaction.TransactionTimeoutException

15-Feb-12

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. […]

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Get the uptime of your Java VM

08-Feb-12

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) { […]

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