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 have changed the way applications are getting developed. These successful frameworks have contributed to give a new look to Java itself. There are many reasons behind continued success of different frameworks available in market. I …

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.

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 application/system. Ok, there might be someone who performs both the roles for a project.  Then the question to be asked to the person – what is difference when you are an roaming around as an …

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.

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 in production. When production server goes down or hangs itself with java.lang.OutOfMemoryError, it can even lead to a heavy monitory loss.