Jodd is an open-source Java utility library and set of micro frameworks.J odd tools enriches JDK with many powerful and feature rich utilities. It helps with everyday task, makes code more robust and reliable. Jodd frameworks is set of lightweight application frameworks, compact yet powerful.

Juergen Hoeller announces the first milestone for Spring Framework 4.0, which includes the first wave of Java SE 8 / OpenJDK 8 support, initial support for JMS 2.0, JPA 2.1, Bean Validation 1.1, and JSR-236 concurrency, a first cut of a generalized condition mechanism for bean definitions (@Conditional) as well as Spring's WebSocket endpoint model.

What type of Java app server should you choose for your next project? Well, that kinda depends on what kind of app you’re building, what your needs are, what type of organization you work in, and lots of other factors too. Hence the debate. So perk up your ears, and get ready for a showdown. We’re going to compare and contrast many aspects of these servers scoring each and placing each of them based on our findings. We then address the big questions: Which app server is the best? Doesn’t someone in a big company have different needs than a hobbyist developer geek working at home? How should we weight what’s important to different profiles of people? And so on… The Application Servers we will be discussing in this report are Tomcat, Jetty, GlassFish, IBM WAS Liberty Profile and JBoss (aka WildFly)

Google I/O 2013 has ended and while we saw a few new things on the Android front, this year's event was much more dialed back than 2012 as far as the platform is concerned. There was no Android update announced, much to the chagrin of some bloggers. In my opinion, this isn't that big of a deal as the platform is in a very stable, viable place right now. The platform along with the Android Design Guidelines provide the foundation for developers to deliver almost everything possible in their apps.

Atlassian shut down JavaBlogs the original go-to blog aggregator for Java.

A new release of Asciidoctor Java integration. Don't let the minor bump in version number fool you, there are some nice improvements with this release!

Riaktor uses the official Riak Java client to provide efficient asynchronous task execution and coordination using the Reactor framework. Riaktor uses Promises to easily coordinate dependent tasks. You can either block the calling thread to get the value of a promise (which makes it easy to do testing), you can set callbacks or Java 8 lambdas, or you can use the composition methods of Reactor's Composable abstraction and use the efficient map, filter, and reduce methods to interact with the returned values.

If you’re tired of using the JMeter GUI or looking at hairy XML files then have a look at the solution available as a Ruby gem called “gridinit-jmeter“. Now at its first major pre release version ...

This got me interested in how a program like Shazam works… And more importantly, how hard is it to program something similar in Java?

Guide on how to set up Maven to use Spring Repositories - Release Candidates, Milestones and Snapshots - after the Spring infrastructure updates.

Often Apps require to implement Photo Gallery or some sort of Media gallery. App42 Backend as a Service (BaaS and MBaaS) provide comprehensive APIs for developing a Photo Gallery. You can create albums and add Photos.

A simple little tip, but quite handy. How you can make a separate Eclipse project build into a JAR file and get consumed in the proper spot of another project.

Why is Naming so important? Because its a matter of Quality. Naming = Readability = Understandability = Maintainability = Quality.

A tutorial of the Java Concurrency API explain in detail

Finally Oracle have bowed to growing pressure and come up with a quick-fix to the security problems besieging Java.

Load testing is aimed at putting demand on a system or device and measuring its response. It is performed to determine a system’s behavior under both normal and anticipated peak load conditions. It helps to identify the maximum operating capacity of an application as well as any bottlenecks and determine which element is causing degradation. The Apache JMeter desktop application is open source software, a 100% pure Java application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance.

Hibernate has become core persistence framework, much like Spring MVC in presentation layer. This article contains a list of Hibernate interview questions mostly asked to Java J2EE programmers in various interviews.

Java EE 6 introduced the @DataSourceDefinition annotation and data-source element for usage in deployment descriptors such as web.xml. But how do you easily change the settings of such a data source for different stages?

The cat is out of the bag: yesterday, during Google I/O‘s keynote, we announced our new IntelliJ IDEA-based Android IDE, Android Studio. This is what my team has been working on for the past months.

Shephertz makes it ridiculously easy for developers to setup, use and operate a cloud backend for their mobile apps.Complete backend for app development will be managed by our App42.

Spring DataIntegrityViolationException - Causes and Solutions for Hibernate and JPA: ConstraintViolationException, PropertyValueException, DataException, EntityExistsException.

This article explains how to monitor memory usage in your web application by requesting the MemoryMXBean and exposing collected metrics within a Primefaces LineChart component in a JSF page.

Besides the common synchronize which is based in the lock bit that every Java object has, you have more sophisticated synchronizers in java

How to build REST service using Spring MVC that returns different content type json, xml or pdf?

Step by Step Tutorial on how to apply Java EE6 security to a sample web application using LDAP server for authentication. Form based authentication mechanism used here. Explained with help of code and diagram.