Tagged with "configuration"

2014-03-29 14:26 UTC

Retain Your CDI Qualifiers

The CDI specifications is very clear in its definition of qualifiers: ... read more

2012-03-25 20:24 UTC

Tracing Servlet Requests

Tracing through Servlet-based web application log files isn't always as convenient as one may hope. Sure, when using Tomcat, we may rely on the thread names (such as http-8080-2), but sometimes they seem to bleed into each other resulting in a difficult structure to grep. Compounding this, an ... read more

2012-02-25 18:44 UTC

Suppressing An Appender For A Log4J Logger

Occasionally, a third-party library will balk the log-or-throw exception handling convention. Most recently, I came across this issue with Hibernate's Work API: an org.hibernate.exception.ConstraintViolationException was being logged and thrown when a unique key constraint was violated. To be exact, Hibernate's JDBCExceptionHelper logged exceptions through JDBCExceptionReporter. The flow was similar ... read more