x += x++ * x++ * x++; Now that's a little annoying. You'd shoot a developer who worked that into a program, but it's they type of thing you'd see on a certification exam. Maybe it's a little too difficult for the OCAJP, the Associate exam from Oracle, but it's probably pretty good fodder for the new OCPJP exam for Java 7.

This year, TheServerSide Java Symposium -- North America's longest-running, vendor-neutral Java conference -- is being reinvented to make it accessible to more Java professionals. So, get ready for the new format’s first outing on April 10, and set your GPS for San Francisco.

Tiggzi is cloud-based mobile app builder. It makes it super easy and fast to build HTML5 and hybrid (with PhoneGap) mobile apps entirely in the cloud. With a new Free plan, anyone can now build a mobile app.

Creating and securing a Spring 3 , Spring WS 2 web service using multiple XSDs and LDAP security.

Apache JMeter, the Open Source Load Test tool reference, which recently became a Top Level Apache project has released a new version 2.6

Mobile applications are more and more becoming part of a company’s online services. This leads to the question whether we need to monitor like other parts of our IT infrastructure. As they are part of our shipped application services we need to ensure they are working properly. However, not every application must be monitored the same way. Additionally monitoring always comes at a certain cost. We need people to take care of the monitoring, we have to prepare our applications to be ready for monitoring and we potentially also have to buy or at least integrate new monitoring tools. So is it worth the investment?

Every variable you declare in Java must be associated with a type, and it must also be given a unique name. When naming your variables, put a little bit of thought into it and name them well. Well thought out variable names make Java programs both easier to read and easier to maintain. Good names can even make Java programming fun.

One of the common problems of people that start using Hibernate is performance, if you don't have much experience in Hibernate you will find how quickly your application becomes slow. If you enable sql traces, you would see how many queries are sent to database that can be avoided with little Hibernate knowledge. In current post I am going to explain how to use Hibernate Query Cache to avoid amount of traffic between your application and database.

Is Java well-matured over the past 10 years? Read what a C developer thought about Java 10 years ago and compare it with how things are today!

Using the Tomcat 7 JDBC Connection Pool in Production

Most tutorials and blogs around map/reduce performance talk about the various hadoop options. Instead I want to look directly at the source of the problem, the performance of the map/reduce job itself and how the framework impacts it. When you know what happens underneath, you can improve the job performance a lot with less hardware.

This week I have released first version of Thymeleaf-Spring Maven Archetype. Thymeleaf Spring-MVC Maven Archetype aims to create a web application that uses Thymeleaf template engine and Spring Framework. The main goal of Thymeleaf is to provide an elegant and well-formed way of creating HTML 5 templates.

Java is dead? 9 million and one devs disagree

This article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of GWT

A series of articles that guides you through the development of a non-relational database driven ZK application using mongoDO Java Driver, Morphia and Spring Data.

This article discusses two key ideas underlying modern Agile development practices, Egoless Programming and the Step-by-Step method

Antelink proposes SourceSquare 1.1, a free and open source tool to scan and visualize the open source files you have in your code.

TheServerSide has been digging into the new Java 7 features, and trying to provide some thorough and informative tutorials on how the various language enhancements introduced in Java 7 work. In this tutorial we expand on our initial look at the new try-with-resources syntax.

I saw a conversation on IRC today that really surprised me. basically, it went like this: guy comes in, and says "I need to write a library for service acquisition, so I can get a service with something like getService(PersonService.class)." This person was aware of Spring and Guice, and was told that he was to create his own instead of using a third party library. This is nuts.

In part 3 of the event bus series, we flex GWT's code generation muscles to migrate our pure java event bus to GWT.