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Trusting any “secure” host

My main concern is developing server-side JAVA-applications: J[2]EE applications. When working with hobby-projects, I’m often faced with situations where I need to call other “third-party” applications over HTTP, in order to obtain some information important to me in specific situations. … Continue reading

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Writing JDBC code: resource cleanup and exception handling

No matter how nice an ORM tool used in the project, CMP, Hibernate or JPA, You will eventually have to start writing “low-level” JDBC code. Most often for performance reasons, sometimes just to utilize some database-vendor-specific feature. Or calling stored … Continue reading

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The “changing the database” experience

I have been involved in Enterprise JAVA projects since 1998. Almost all projects have had an RDBMS “behind” it, mostly Oracle and DB2. All the projects have been some custom defined application often based on existing infrastructure, and the database … Continue reading

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Real world distributed transactions in J2EE – Not ?

I’m on this project where we develop a component. This is a J2EE component, it has its own database and it does some mainframe communication. This component is to be deployed on a WebSphere application server, version 6.1 (WAS). The … Continue reading

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An Open Source encounter

I really like Open Source software. I use it a lot: Linux, apache, postfix, amavis-new, clamav, openSSL, openLDAP, PostgreSQL, PHP are just a few of the OSS products I have on my servers. When developing JAVA, I use Eclipse, Ant, … Continue reading

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