How to Effectively Protect Critical Section

Not everywhere could be immutable objects used to ensure thread-safe code.

JSON Mock Data Generator

A small program to generate JSON data.

Application Package Manager with Ant and Java

Let's build a simple but powerful application package manager with Ant.

Ant Sequential Tasks

This article will show you how to implement an Ant task which consume a sequence of sub-task and call them with a parameter of the result from the execution.

Ant Script to Copy a Snippet of a XML to Another XML

I know, Ant is not the most modern technology, but there are still Ant-based systems we have to maintenance.

Resolving a Generic Type with Spring Framework

In the case of generic beans sometimes you need to get the generic type value for some specific reasons. A typical example could be parsing some data into the type.

Pre-processing Spring Beans of Prototype Scope

Sometimes you have a type of bean in the Spring framework which you want to create by every asking for it - in the scope prototype.

SQL NULL: tricky equality

Don't get confused with NULL in SQL!

XSLT: Multiple XML Inputs

How to create one result document from more sources? It's easy with XSLT!

Managing Non-Java Resources from Gradle

There are really complex projects which consist of a lot of heterogeneous parts, modules, batch scripts, binaries...