Ok, I’m about to divulge to the world one of my little programming gems – something I’ve used on every single project for almost the last 4 years now. It is very easily translated to any other OO language as well, especially C# for the .NET/Hibernate.NET folks.

I haven’t been keeping it secret or anything, [...]

So, I just finished reading this blog post about Spring configuration advocating static getInstance() methods in some places in your code to reduce the amount of Spring xml config. Since I posted a reply on that blog, and the author would probably be inclined to moderate my entry and delete it because I directly [...]

Have you ever wanted to use caching in your Spring/Hibernate application beyond just supporting Hibernate’s 2nd-level cache?

If you know what a Hibernate 2nd-level cache is, you really know how huge its performance benefits are. Wouldn’t it be useful to utilize caching for other things in your application? Even if you don’t explicitly use a [...]

When you install an application for the first time, many times you want ‘bootstrap’ data to exist before the application is used for the very first time. Here’s a simple but easy technique to get bootstrap data inserted into your application upon first startup.

Prior to the following approach, I used to have ‘default.data’ and [...]

UPDATE: This Java class was updated on February 1st, 2008 to account for domain literals and quoted strings such as “John Smith” <john.smith@somewhere.com>. It is now effectively the only complete and semantically correct email validator for Java.

PETTY REQUEST: The update required considerably more effort than the original as it now accounts for all valid [...]

While attempting to quench my thirst for the latest and greatest software that would make my life easiser, I went ‘a searchin’ on the net to find frameworks and technologies.

Since I’m responsible for a lot of web 2.0 / enterprise software products, I wanted to find a framework and/or suite that I could leverage [...]

UPDATE: This article was updated on February 1st, 2008 to account for domain literals and quoted strings such as “John Smith” <john.smith@somewhere.com>. It is now effectively the only complete and semantically correct email validator for Java.

PETTY REQUEST: The update required considerably more effort than the original as it now accounts for all valid RFC [...]