Thread dumps and stack traces are probably some of the least understood features of java. Why else would I come across developers who have no clue what do do after looking at an Exception stack trace?)

Thread dumps and stack traces are probably some of the least understood features of java. Why else would I come across developers who have no clue what do do after looking at an Exception stack trace?)

Over the past couple of years I have learned some tricks to survive on windows ... Keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+Esc: Same as Win Ctrl+Shift+Esc: Brings up the task manager. [It is faster than Ctrl+Alt+Del and then choosing task manager.] Win+D: Toggle show desktop Win+E: Start explorer Win+F: Start find in files Win+M: Minimize all windows...

Over the past couple of years I have learned some tricks to survive on windows ... Keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+Esc: Same as Win Ctrl+Shift+Esc: Brings up the task manager. [It is faster than Ctrl+Alt+Del and then choosing task manager.] Win+D: Toggle show desktop Win+E: Start explorer Win+F: Start find in files Win+M: Minimize all windows...

Recently we had a customer issue where the application was responding very slowly. After a lot of struggle we found out that Sun's JDK had issues when handling methods with large number of try-finally blocks. Sachin has discussed the problem in greater detail in his post The Usual Suspects?. To simulate the problem I wrote a sample class with a...

Recently we had a customer issue where the application was responding very slowly. After a lot of struggle we found out that Sun's JDK had issues when handling methods with large number of try-finally blocks. Sachin has discussed the problem in greater detail in his post The Usual Suspects?. To simulate the problem I wrote a sample class with a...