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Pimpin' your Ant build with Ivy
As of late Maven has been making headway in the Java build world. However, there are some who are either in the position of working with an existing system build with Ant or who don’t want to get...
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Controlling Log4j Logs with Contexts and Filters
Its a problem we’ve all had. Something has gone awry, you jack up the log level to debug and all of the sudden you are inundated with everything under the sun. While one option could be changing some...
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REST calls and JSON results in Java
I recently had the need interact with Twittervision’s RESTful api from Java. As usual, I started googling around for a solution but nothing obviously stood out. There are a handful of RESTful java...
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Approximating Java Case Objects without Project Lombok
Over the past few months Dick Wall of the Java Posse has been talking up Project Lombok and for good reason. As he points out, its great for reducing boilerplate code in basic Java data objects....
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ActiveRecord Naming Conventions with Spring JDBC
One of the best choices we made at my current job was splitting the web development from the heavy message processing system, allowing the former to be written in Ruby on Rails and the latter to be...
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