Blogging at the speed of thought

In Flux, we have made improvements in recent versions to handle database or network failures and recover from such failures gracefully without needing to restart Flux. Sometimes, it would be nice to notify administrators about these failures and they can act upon them in case of an unscheduled outage. Flux is dependent on the database [...]

Try-with-resources (originally known as Automatic Resource Management) is one of the Project Coin proposals that made its way into recent JDK 7 builds. Traditionally, developers had to manually terminate any resources (Files, Database connections, etc) they use in their applications and sometimes it was painful to keep track of those things and failing to do [...]