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making more than jar files with Ant

In a previous post, making jar files with Ant,  I briefly covered the creation of a Ant script that would compile the Java source files and then create jar file from them. It was a really neat example of how with … Continue reading

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better logging than printf – using log4j – part III

Log4j is a very convenient tool to have in your programming arsenal.  This is true even if only the very basic functionality is being used.    The basic functionality of log4j2 was covered in my previous example. To be honest, … Continue reading

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better logging than printf – using log4j – part II

However, Just like with computers, cars and women there is always a faster, bigger, or better model on the horizon. Version 1.2 of log4j has reached its end of life on August 5th 2015 but there is a version 2 … Continue reading

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better logging than printf – using log4j – part I

The old way Log files or debugging can be done using print statements.  It is a very rudimentary way to see some of your internal variables or to have a log of how the program run went. This printf sample … Continue reading

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