Fixed-point arithmetic library2036 (2/22/2012 9:39:20 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer Evening all, I would quite like to represent some numbers in fixed point, and do arithmetic with them. These numbers will mostly not be more than a bilion, and will probably never be more than a hundred bil... Tom
JBoss 7239 (8/7/2011 11:14:53 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer Yo! Anyone here using JBoss 7? I've just started getting to grips with it, and my head is swimming. I'd be interested to hear about anyone's experiences with it. So far, the good: it starts up really, reall... Tom
How do i handle long-running background tasks in J2EE?1330 (9/15/2010 5:36:06 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer Hi all, By 'long-running', i mean 'up to ten seconds'. The context is a bog-standard e-commerce site. The task in question is carrying out a credit card authentication and then submitting an order to a back... Tom
Looking things up by string prefix12108 (7/2/2010 3:42:31 AM) comp.lang.java.programmer Hi all,
I want to store some things, each filed under a string key. I then want to
look those things up with other strings, finding the thing whose key is
the longest available prefix of the lookup strin... Tom
Should -Xmx be a multiple of -Xms?11135 (6/1/2010 6:06:55 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer Hello,
A colleague mentioned that he'd heard (from this guy's cousin's mechanic's
guy who he met in a bar's grandfather's dealer's sysop) that the JVM
requests memory from the OS in chunks of the size of... Tom
A little afternoon WTF56253 (5/13/2010 5:12:28 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer Greets yalls,
For your edutainment, some code (lightly anonymised) seen while digging
into code written by some (now-departed) contractors today:
private static String header = "" +
"\r\n" +
"... Tom
[arguably OT] Keyboards68217 (4/22/2010 10:43:48 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer Evening all,
In my office, we have several rubbish keyboards. We are going to replace
them with less rubbish keyboards. Does anyone have any recommendations for
keyboards they really, really like, and if... Tom
Modular multi-tenant full-ajax web application733 (12/19/2011 8:28:50 AM) comp.lang.java.programmer Hi everybody, I'm planning to develop a modular multi-tenant full-ajax enterprise web application, and I'm evaluating different technologies and languages. The application should be highly modular, and the UI s... csaffi(156)
Volunteer for Java Development2426 (12/22/2011 5:25:12 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer Hi, I'm looking for a project to volunteer some time on doing some Java development. If you know of something, please let me know. Interested to work on Struts, Spring, Hibernate framework... regards, Amit J... virtexamit(9)
Logging Question2025 (12/31/2011 9:27:26 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer I have a question about the standard Java logging. I am using the Java classes to create an XML log. Is there any way that I can insert an extra line in the XML generated by the logging classes programmatica... Novice
Getting started with Java on a Mac3333 (1/13/2012 2:41:16 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer I've been looking for a programming language to help me write tools to do stuff. For example generate 2-D plots from CSV or text files. C++ can do that (and more) but there's a lot more overhead and mainten... wayned(48)
Agile Project Management4930 (2/9/2012 6:51:58 AM) comp.lang.java.programmer Agile software development is an iterative, incremental approach to developing and releasing software. A range of agile methodologies have emerged and they are based frequent releases, ongoing testing, customer... iqraeducationalportal(5)
the Olson Timezone Database3243 (2/15/2012 2:28:55 AM) comp.lang.java.programmer The Olson timezone database is no more. An astrology company, Astrolabe, sued him, and he did not have the resources to fight back. So for now, nobody is keeping track of timezone changes. Java uses that dat... see_website(4854)
Fixed-point arithmetic library2036 (2/22/2012 9:39:20 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer Evening all, I would quite like to represent some numbers in fixed point, and do arithmetic with them. These numbers will mostly not be more than a bilion, and will probably never be more than a hundred bil... twic(2083)
Aspect questions?16646 (2/24/2012 8:10:59 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer Is this a reasonable place to ask questions about AspectJ? I'm just getting started with it and it's not going really well so far. I'm imitating simple examples from the manual and they just don't work. I'm n... Novice
Proposed new Java feature2735 (5/26/2012 11:11:13 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer First a few observations:
1. ThreadLocals may be, in general, an abomination, but there are situation
where they're the least of evils. And if you're building a framework in
which third-party code runs ... mscottschilling(1976)