The Aquarium is a great source of inspiration and most recent information about Java EE progress across all relevant specifications and reference implementations. They picked up a presentation by Oracle's Shaun Smith ( blog / twitter ) about the status an…
Continue ReadingThis is my first published article this year. The German iX magazin published an article of mine about the pitfalls of Java's time and money features. Temporary employment Time and currency calculations in Java Dealing with time and currency format…
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The Heroes of Java: Trisha Gee
The 11th part of my " Heroes of Java " interview series. Thanks for following it! Stay tuned for the next parts! Trisha is a developer at LMAX, the London Multi Asset eXchange. She's been working in financial markets for the last 5 years or …

You probably followed my posts about testing more complex scenarios with embedded GlassFish ( Part I / Part II ). Next on my list of things to do was to get this setup working with latest WebLogic 12c. Getting Started Follow the steps in the getting sta…

Packt was so kind to hand their latest publication to me for a review. JBoss AS 7 Configuration, Deployment and Administration promises to give you an expert's understanding of the single components that makes up the JBoss application server. Showing yo…
Continue ReadingThis is a followup post to the one I did yesterday . Even if it was intended to be a more complex demo it turns out, that I missed a big issue with the setup. Everything works fine up to the point when you start introducing enhanced features to your entities.…

This is an, let's call it accidental post. I was looking into transactional CDI observers and playing around with GlassFish embedded to run some integration tests against it. But surprisingly this did not work too well and I am still figuring out, where e…

Inspired by an article done by Lincoln Baxter III about running JBoss on port 80 , I decided to have a more detailed look at what's possible and necessary for GlassFish to utilize proxying and load-balancing. Let's look at the basics front up. …
