The Google Guava project is a collection of libraries that every Java developer should become familiar with. The Guava libraries cover I/O, collections, string manipulation, and concurrency just to name a few. In this post I am going to cover the Monitor class. Monitor is a synchronization construct that can be used anywhere you would [...]
Lucene Thrift and Ruby
May 18, 2011 By 1 Comment
This post is going to demonstrate thrift usage by searching a Lucene index from Ruby. Thrift In a Nutshell Essentially thrift is a serialization and RPC framework that allows you to communicate between programs that are not necessarily written in the same language. Thrift is used by defining data types and services in a .thrift [...]
JEE 6 and Spring MVC
December 8, 2010 By 2 Comments
With the release of JEE 6 and the Servlet 3.0 specification came support for asynchronous servlets. While continuations and Comet are not new, the fact that it is now part of the servlet specification, and could be “baked in” to an application, piqued my curiosity. Although I have not used plain servlets in development for [...]
Learning ANTLR part I
February 27, 2010 By 1 Comment
This year one of my goals is to try and become proficient in using ANTLR. I think that learning to translate text or build an external DSL is skill that, although not used everyday, will be very useful to know. For my first attempt I settled on something fairly easy, a SQL like grammar that [...]
