Easier way to collect thread dumps

When I worked at BEA support, we troubleshooted a lot of issues using the thread dumps. There were a couple of problems with them:

On Solaris/Linux/HP-UP, the thread dumps had to be extracted from the stdout files, which in some cases did not exist (never redirected) and in others were not rotated on restart and therefore had . . . → Read More: Easier way to collect thread dumps

Book review: ‘Blog’ by Hugh Hewitt

I blog. Obviously! But I felt that an influential blogger like Hugh Hewitt might give a good overview and write a book worth reading. Boy, was I mistaken.

This book is squarely targeted at non-technical, right-wing, religious Americans who don’t mind being sneered at. Anybody else should try to avoid it.

For that Anybody else group, here is . . . → Read More: Book review: ‘Blog’ by Hugh Hewitt

Re: More Readable Classpaths for Ant Builds

Lance Hankins got annoyed with having to eyeball ant’s output of the long classpaths and wrote a task to do the classpath output in a slightly more readable form.

Neat, but perhaps there is a more generic way to do it. After all, not only ant produces these long semi-column separated monstrosities.

So, I want to show how . . . → Read More: Re: More Readable Classpaths for Ant Builds