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Fixed-point arithmetic library 20 36 (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 7 2 39 (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

Making one or more threads wait for another to produce a value or fail 25 39 (5/31/2011 2:00:25 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer The scenario: Penelope is a widow, or at least her husband isn't around any more (she's not sure which; long story). There are 108 suitors who would like to marry her. She hasn't decided which one she'll mar... Tom

Can you statically derive an EJB3 bean's portable JNDI name? 0 38 (4/22/2011 8:54:31 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer Evening all, I don't use EJB3, and am trying to learn more about it and play with it a bit. Things have definitely improved since i last did EJB to pay the bills. Now, the normal way to get hold of a refere... Tom

Ping Stefan Ram - Teaching object orientation without depending on real-world objects 17 29 (3/17/2011 6:06:03 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer Stefan! And everybody else ... I came across this question round the back of StackOverflow today (disregard the bit about the origins of OO, which is immaterial whether it's true or not): http://programmers... Tom

How do i handle long-running background tasks in J2EE? 13 30 (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 prefix 12 108 (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? 11 135 (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 WTF 56 253 (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] Keyboards 68 217 (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

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Modular multi-tenant full-ajax web application 7 33 (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 Development 24 26 (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 Question 20 25 (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

BufferedWriter cannot handle InterruptedIOException 3 46 (1/4/2012 5:59:18 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer Dear All, Just reading the spec of InterruptedIOException: "Signals that an I/O operation has been interrupted. An InterruptedIOException is thrown to indicate that an input or output transfer has been te... janburse (811)

Getting started with Java on a Mac 33 33 (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 Management 49 30 (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 Database 32 43 (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 library 20 36 (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? 166 46 (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 feature 27 35 (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)