The lessons I've learned
March 22, 2009 2 Comments
Recently I was dealing with a deadlock issue. Usually I use eclipse break points to create deadlock situation at the same time find the line/code which causes the deadlock. But this one is bit complex scenario where it is not easy to have break points move line by line to reproduce the deadlock. Read more of this post
December 28, 2008 5 Comments
Connection Pool and Thread Pool are used to improve performance of applications. Most of us use these poolings with default settings not caring about their configurations or finding optimal values. But the configuration also an important factor in performance tuning. In some sense the connection pool and the thread pool settings are dependent. We will discuss about the dependency in this post. Read more of this post
December 20, 2008 7 Comments
One of my favorite interview question is: What is the difference between sleep() and wait() method? The only commonality between these two method is both halts the current thread execution. The purpose and usage are entirely different. Read more of this post
March 24, 2008 5 Comments
Sun deprecated Thread.stop() because it is unsafe. They didn’t provide any direct alternative for this operation; instead they are making us to reinvent the wheel. Here I am sharing my style of safe thread stop implementation. Read more of this post
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