While at SpringOne2GX back in October, the thought occurred to me that Terracotta would make a really interesting acquisition target for V...

I was reminded again today of how much the core Java libraries have grown over the years.  It can be really hard to keep track of all the ni...

I work for a client on a product that makes direct queries against databases via JDBC. A while ago, I added some code so that a user could ...

I recently worked with my client to add an extension mechanism (in this case, a very simple plug-in system) to their intranet Java web appli...

This is the first post in what I plan to be a series about a small application named FogBugzReporter that I began writing in October of 200...

I mentioned in an earlier post that a project I'm working on needed a thread-safe class with behavior similar to LinkedHashMap , which ...

Last night, I was reading Caches and Maps in Terracotta by Alex Miller when I came upon his link to the JPC (a.k.a. JavaPC) Project .  It ...

I’ve been using VisualVM on and off with modest success since I first found out about it at JavaOne 2008 .  In addition, since JDK 6 updat...

Back in March of last year, I wrote a post comparing Groovy and Scala .  Enough time has passed that I thought it was worth revisiting the t...

I kept noticing blog entries with beautifully rendered source code snippets and finally clicked the blue question mark in the upper left ...

I was reading a post on displaying Google Visualization charts in Grails on mrhaki's blog and noticed something interesting. In his co...

When I noticed I was credited for a fix on the changelog page for Tomcat 5.5.27 (search for "Passell" on the page if you don'...

For my work, I was looking for a thread-safe equivalent of LinkedHashMap that would work well as the basis for an in-memory cache.  I was h...

"It's essentially impossible to avoid Swiss cheese." --Gil Tene, Azul Systems Want to guess about the context? :) Update: ...

Last night, I attended a NEJUG (New England Java Users Group) meeting which featured a talk titled " Designing for Ajax " given b...

Although I'm really comfortable with Java and like it a lot, I came to the conclusion a while ago that I needed to add a language to my ...

I've been using Eclipse for a few years now and although I've always been a bit curious to try out NetBeans and IntelliJ IDEA , I...

Well, this is my first post. Last week, I started my own software consulting company named Grove Hill Software, LLC . It’s been quite a bi...

I’ve been developing software in Java since 1997, and since 1998 professionally. On September 19, 2007, I started my own software consulting...