This list of recommended reading connects you to documents that contain essential information that practitioners should know and understand before diving into Java™ EE application design and implementation using IBM® WebSphere® Application Server.
This list is intended for anyone interested in using or learning more about WebSphere Application Server.
Another interesting article about checked-exceptions. I know this is not new, but every time a new project starts, I’m having the same discussion about checked-exceptions.
Once upon a time Java created an experiment called checked-exceptions, you know you have to declare exceptions or catch them. Since that time no other language (I know of) has decided to copy this idea, but somehow the Java developers are in love with checked exceptions…
Health Center is a low-processor and memory usage diagnostic tool for monitoring the status of a running IBM Java Virtual Machine (JVM). It provides live information and recommendations in each of the following areas:
Recently James Taylor wrote some articles about his thoughs on IBM and ILog.
Read his thoughs in the following articles …
OpenXava is a productive way for creating AJAX Enterprise Applications with Java. Indeed, it’s faster developing with OpenXava than with Ruby On Rails, Spring MVC, or any other MVC framework. This is because in OpenXava you only have to write the Model. The Controllers are reused, and the View are generated automatically.
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The Eclipse Memory Analyzer is a fast and feature-rich Java heap analyzer that helps you find memory leaks and reduce memory consumption.
The Memory Analyzer was developed to analyze productive heap dumps with hundreds of millions of objects. Once the heap dump is parsed, you can re-open it instantly, immediately get the retained size of single objects and quickly approximate the retained size of a set of objects. The reference chain to the Garbage Collection Roots then details why the object is not garbage collected.
Using these features, a report automatically extracts leak suspects. It includes details about the objects accumulated, the path to the GC Roots, plus general information like system properties.
Some screenshots:
1. Overview
2. Histogram
3. Dominator tree
4. Path to GC Roots
5. Dominator Tree Grouped by Class Loader
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Eric Lafortune announced a new version of his free Java class file shrinker, optimizer, obfuscator, and preverifier.
ProGuard is distributed under the terms of the GPL. You can download the program, documentation, and examples from proguard.sourceforge.net.
Guice is Google’s open source dependency injection framework for Java™ development. It enables better testing and modularity by taking away the pain of writing your own factories. Nicholas Lesiecki offers a tour of the most important Guice concepts that will leave you ready to Guice up your applications.
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