When we are diagnosing problems in a Java (EE or otherwise) application, is often a good idea to check how garbage collection is performing. One of the basic and most unobtrusive actions is to enable garbage collection logging. As you may know, if we add the following arguments to the java start command… -Xloggc:<file_name> –XX:+PrintGCDetails [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2010’
The Server Labs BizBlog
This week The Server Labs launched a second blog – BizBlog – which, as my colleague Greg says, aims to “address IT Architecture and Cloud topics taking a less technical but more business relevant angle” than that found in this more technical blog. I encourage any regular readers of this blog to take a look [...]
Intellectual Property (IPR) Management and Monitoring Tools
It seems that every day projects have more and more dependencies on libraries (internal or external) and, of course, many of these depend on other libraries, resulting in a large dependency tree for any given project. How do you know if any of those libraries contain some code which is licensed in a way that [...]