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 . . . →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 . . . →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 . . . →Read More:Re:More Readable Classpaths for Ant Builds