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This post is re-done of one of my previous posts which was about embedding Jetty7. Now it's about new version - Jetty9 and also with su...

Java 1.5 introduced new family of classes (Atomic*FieldUpdater) for atomic updates of object fields with properties similar to Atomic* set ...

After completing wonderful course by Martin Odesky , I have eventually had a chance to have a little play with Scala and create something mo...

Some days back Martin Thompson published investigation on results of his controversial CAS (compare and swap) performance test he made few...

Have had a funy problem with Git. I suppose it's proxy-related. Writing it down, because sure that will have the same problem some time...

Have observed interesting behavior of File.lastModified file property on Linux. Basically, my problem was that I was incrementing the value...

Have never ever written feedback on events or courses, but here I decided to write one. It is about "Effective concurrency" cours...

Experimenting with some stuff, I found that it is often useful to have JDK source code available in hand to make some changes, play with it,...

Just have came around amazing question on stackoverwflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10620680/why-volatile-in-java-5-doesnt-synchr...

In java world there is a very good perception about System.nanoTime(). There is always some guys who says that it is fast, reliable and, whe...