Archives for: January 2009
Dependancy Injection in Layman's Terms
January 27th, 2009Having spent the last (almost) year learning about J2EE Frameworks (specifically The Spring Framework) I found this article very funny. It aptly describes the trials and tribulations of creating applications using framework tools, in a way that any one c… more »
ActiveMQ JMX monitoring under Tomcat
January 20th, 2009JMX can incur an overhead to an application so many libraries have an option to switch it on explicitly.
In order to get a JMX view into ActiveMQ (JMS implementation) you must switch on JMX on the container and on the ActiveMQ library.
To active JM… more »
Allow remote JMX management for Tomcat
January 19th, 2009In order to switch on JMX to monitor a Tomcat instance you must firstly switch it on and then tell it what port to listen on. There is also optional support for user names and passwords. JMX helps with remote management and as a consequence will generall… more »
Switch on Tomcat JMX under Eclipse
January 18th, 2009In order to get JMX information out of a running instance of Tomcat under Eclipse, you must add the Sun's JMX Remote Management debug option to the start-up command of Tomcat.
Goto the Servers pane at the bottom of the screen. (Or Window->Show Vie… more »
Redirecting web pages
January 17th, 2009If you move a web page to a new location on your server you don't want to create broken links. To make sure your web site still fits together you can create page place holders that redirect visitors to a different location. This will give you time to cha… more »