Tag Archives: java

Restful services in Java

Posted on March 18, 2017 by DocDock

Over the years there have been different methods of for communicating between heterogeneous systems.  Each of these methods have to deal binary messaging.  Some of the different protocols that have been used are as follows. Remote procedure calls (RPC) Distributed … Continue reading →

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Evolution of LED Lighting – hardware and tools

Posted on January 3, 2017 by DocDock

Flashback I wanted to buy home automation electronics, nothing really fancy just a WiFi controller for a led strip.  When shopping for things like this Pay attention.  I saw something that spoke about WiFi and was really quite cheap so I … Continue reading →

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fun with XML – JAXB and arrays

Posted on October 25, 2016 by DocDock

In part I of my JAXB example I briefly described some of the annotations required to turn normal Java objects into XML files with JAXB. To expand on the xml examples from my previous post, I will be taking a number … Continue reading →

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fun with XML – a JAXB example

Posted on October 21, 2016 by DocDock

Full disclosure, I am not J2EE expert so my descriptions may be a bit off.  However, using JAXB is just to powerful to ignore.  The first part of this topic is pretty basic, while the second part is a bit … Continue reading →

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making more than jar files with Ant

Posted on October 16, 2016 by DocDock

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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compiling and making jar files with Ant

Posted on October 8, 2016 by DocDock

When I first saw Java I was surprised at exactly how embarrassingly simple it was to compile a program. Well, with the caveat that the file or files are all in the same directory. javac *.java When the number of … Continue reading →

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getting the most out of your computer – threading

Posted on September 19, 2016 by DocDock

Flashback to 2002 Technology is amazing.  Pretty much since personal computers were created the speed of their processors have been increasing at almost a linear rate of doubling in speed every two years.  This is awesome but it is also … Continue reading →

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better logging than printf – using log4j – part III

Posted on September 4, 2016 by DocDock

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

Posted on September 1, 2016 by DocDock

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

Posted on August 29, 2016 by DocDock

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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