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Is Java Riskier than C/C++? 26 Aug 2013 | 06:14 pm
The following is a contributed article from Jon Jarboe of Coverity: Is Java Riskier than C? Jon Jarboe Senior Technical Manager, Coverity Lately, I’ve heard a number of folks discussing whether Java...
Ant Properties Nuances 21 Aug 2013 | 10:36 am
Every once in a while, I'm reminded of a few subtle nuances of Ant properties that can, when forgotten, lead to confusion when dealing with Ant. In particular, the fact that Ant properties are general...
Searching JARs for String (Linux) 15 Aug 2013 | 09:51 am
I recently thought about writing a Groovy script to search JARs for a specific string, but decided to first look for an alternative rather than writing a script. The alternative needed to be easy to u...
Groovy Sql and Oracle 'Invalid column index' SQLException 23 Jul 2013 | 12:32 am
There are some minor potential dangers associated with Groovy's def keyword. The Groovy style and language feature guidelines for Java developers provides some warnings about use of def. In this blog ...
Escaping XML with Groovy 2.1 21 Jul 2013 | 09:24 am
When posting source code to my blog, I often need to convert less than signs (<), and greater than signs (>) to their respective entity references so that they are not confused as HTML tags when the b...
Enhanced Groovy-based JAR/Manifest Diff Tool 17 Jul 2013 | 06:36 am
This brief blog post provides another Groovy script that provides simple differencing of two JAR (or WAR or EAR) files and their MANIFEST.MF files. It represents a combination of the JAR comparison sc...
Comparing Manifest Files with Groovy 10 Jul 2013 | 07:02 pm
My last post discussed comparing the high-level contents of two JAR files using a Groovy script and a 2011 post covered displaying a particular JAR file's manifest file. This post illustrates the comb...
Comparing JARs with Groovy 4 Jul 2013 | 09:10 am
It can sometimes be useful to compare the contents of two JARs. In this blog post, I demonstrate a Groovy script that acts like a simple "diff" tool for comparing two JAR files. The Groovy script sho...
Common Red Flags in Java Development 20 Jun 2013 | 07:24 pm
In several years of developing, reading, reviewing, and maintaining hundreds of thousands of lines of Java code, I have become accustomed to seeing certain "red flags" in Java code that often (but per...
Book Review: Learning JavaScriptMVC 2 Jun 2013 | 07:08 am
Packt Publishing invited me to review the recently published Learning JavaScriptMVC by Wojciech Bednarski. I describe my impressions of this book on JavaScriptMVC in this post. Before beginning my rev...
