Archive for February, 2010
Role of Frameworks in Architecture Definition
If one wants to select an important technology trend in Java world over past few years, then it has to be the growth and wide acceptance of open source frameworks in application development. If we look back, there are examples of frameworks which got wiped out with time, also there are examples of frameworks which [...]
Eclipse Features to Improve Java Productivity
Eclipse IDE provides many features to help a developer in development activities. Help to write code, integrate with servers, deployment, quality check and what not. In this article, I am consolidating those features which help us in improving productivity. Here I have used Eclipse Galileo and for unit test generation it is JUnit 4.4.
What is Difference Between An Architect and A Designer?
Some of you might say that there is a thin line between these two designations, while some might be able to differentiate clearly saying that comparing these two is comparing apples and oranges. But it is true that these two personalities work under same roof to achieve same goal of delivering a project, more appropriately [...]
Long Time-stamp to Date Conversion in Java
I wanted to convert a timestamp from long value to something human understandable date. I explored multiple ways of doing it with a couple of controlling parameters. Sharing it as it might be useful to you.
Investigating java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
Mostly we do not encounter this error in preliminary stages of application development. Sometimes functional testing reveals this error, but many times it is revealed during performance testing. It is not so annoying when it occurs before we push the application into production, but the real pain starts when we are hit by this error [...]