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Sep 2

yammer – Metrics made easy – Part I

Metrics by yammer provides runtime metrics and statistics for all kind of apps you can imagine. A lot of stuff is directly useable out of the box, for example measuring…

Feb 7

How Sysadmins monitor your Java application with JMX

some time ago Aljona showed how to monitor and manage your java application with jmx I’m going to show, how you can make use of JMX from the viewpoint of…

Okt 8

Testing webapp startup on Jenkins using Maven, Tomcat and Web Driver

Modern web applications often consist of quite some configuration files that should at least be tested for validity. Think of Spring controller configurations, web application descriptors and the like that…

Jun 30

The Tale of JBoss and the 7 Little Logging Frameworks

At Synyx we’re currently taking care of a rather large legacy project for one of our customers in the course of our Code Clinic services. The project comprises several components…

Okt 13

Context reload with Tomcat

Ever wondered why Tomcat reloads the context when editing web.xml? This is a default configuration that can also be adjusted to your needs. The file conf/context.xml is the default context…

Jul 9

Servlet container options for Maven

When developing web apps with Maven the de facto standard for running the app is to use the excellent Maven Jetty Plugin which runs the project in an embedded Jetty…