New Heap Visualizer (web app) By Patricbensen

You're having some heap-related issues (OOM, long GC pauses) in production and do not have the liberty to fire up jconsole or install gl...

New By Patricbensen

Distributed Caching Using Ehcache on Amazon EC2 This post elaborates the setup of Ehcache to enable distributed caching in JEE applications....

New TripleDES encryption compatibility when using Java and .NET By Patricbensen

Note: This article shows you how to generate a SecretKey to use with a TripleDES encryption cipher. The shared-secret key can be 24 byte or ...

New JPA and Stored Procedures By Patricbensen

I recently stumbled upon many queries on google about how to make Stored Proc calls via JPA. Something was not right with questions like thi...

New Hung Threads with BO SDK - Solution By Patricbensen

Many developers seem to be facing the dreaded 'Hung threads' issue when they you the BO SDK in their java applications. The symptoms...

New Java - Create Zip file in memory By Patricbensen

I find myself writing and rewriting this piece of code whenever I want to zip a set of files (in memory) and return the zipped file back as ...

New Java - calculate the difference between two dates By Patricbensen

Finding the difference between two dates isn't as straightforward as subtracting the two dates and dividing the result by (24 * 60 * 60...

New Java's UTF-8 and Unicode writing is broken - Use this fix By Patricbensen

Many of you might not believe this but try creating a file in UTF-8 encoding using a java program like this one (found on the java tutorial ...

New Freeware (older) version of DJ Java Decompiler By Patricbensen

DJ Java Decompiler is a great piece of software that allows you to decompile java class files into java source. It internally uses JAD as th...

New Print JNDI tree By Patricbensen

At one point or another most of us would have wanted to see what was in the JNDI tree of the Application Server. This may have been because ...