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There are five key relationships between classes in a UML class diagram : dependency, aggregation, composition, inheritance and realization....

ActiveMQ has a feature called Producer Flow Control that throttles back message producers when it detects that broker resources are running ...

An article I read this morning mentioned that now that the regular NFL refs are back on the job the referees have faded into the background ...

In my previous posting where I introduced slf4j5 I reported that, to my surprise, performance was better than when using slf4j by itself - ...

I was recently investigating some of the Java logging frameworks out there and really like the flexibility/abstraction layer that slf4j pro...

It's all about the cables Although I've been very pleased with my Windows Home Server, one area that has been a little disappointi...

team maturity and work definition are key factors There are many factors that can/should influence sprint length, such as delivery schedul...

restoring a PC to new hardware Several months ago I built a Windows Home Server box partly to back up the family's PCs - one of which ...

Two hours can make a huge difference. I've been working in an agile development shop using the Scrum methodology for over four years ...

ExtJS XTemplates are awesome!  They provide an easy way to combine custom presentation markup with simple or complex data on the client.  So...

Use Ajax to load an html page as a template for ExtJS and then plug ExtJS components into it. Sometimes a web page layout may be too co...

Let's say you have a Spring managed bean that contains some properties that you would like to externalize from your application, say per...

On startup JBoss will process any xyz-service.xml files it finds in the deploy folder before it processes any war or ear files, etc.  One th...

I had a requirement recently to be able to dynamically control CAS security filters in a web application (default CAS security to off for de...

Pair programming is one of the characteristics of extreme programming and is, frankly, something I have not been a particularly strong advoc...

This is VERY handy for automatically deploying your artifact/war after a maven build is completed. Simply add the mvn goal jboss:hard-deplo...

Here is how you can invoke AJAX POSTs in ExtJS that map to PUT and/or DELETE methods in your Jersey ReST services. The first step is to co...

Here is some CSS that can be used to flow/float boxes inside an ExtJS DataView: .dataViewNode { width: 10em; float: left; height:...

Here is how you can make an InputStream for a BufferedImage: URL url = new URL("http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif...