A new version of Boost is available : Boost 1.48.0 This release includes three new libraries : Locale, Container and Move. A lot of bug have been fixed and there are also some changes in the existing libraries.
Compute command-line arguments with Apache Commons CLI
October 14, 2010 by 1 Comment
For a project at school, I needed to refactor an old code parsing almost 30 command line arguments. I needed to add some more arguments and change some old args, but the old code was not maintainable at all. So I decided to use a library to make the parsing. of the args. I chose [...]
JTheque Utils 1.1.5
September 16, 2010 by 4 Comments
Hi, It’s my pleasure to announce the release of a new version of JTheque Utils, the 1.1.5. There is a lot of changes in this version. First of all, the library is now OSGi Ready, you can use it with no problem in an OSGi application. Here are the main changes of this version : [...]
Quick Tip : Launch Java Applications From Java applications with Ant
August 9, 2010 by Leave a Comment
One week ago, I searched a way to launch a Java application from an other Java application without loosing portability. And I found a post on StackOverflow explaining how achieve that goal using Apache Ant. It’s really easy. It use the Ant classes and simulate a project launching and a build task. In this post, [...]
How to write correct benchmarks
April 26, 2010 by 6 Comments
Several months ago, I wrote an article to compare the performances of short indexes for loops. I wrote that code to achieve my goal : And i found as a result that short was two times slower than int and I was convinced of these results until a week ago. At this time, a reader [...]
Mock objects with EasyMock
March 18, 2010 by 4 Comments
1. Introduction The mock objects allows to make unit tests on objects depending on other objects. We will replace this dependencies with mock objects. With that, we can by example verify than the method xyzzy() has been called 5 times and returned 33. That can be practical in a several cases. By exampe, if the [...]
Logging with SLF4J
February 2, 2010 by 2 Comments
I. Introduction SLF4J is an abstract layer for logging APIs. The principle is roughly the same as Jakarta Commons Logging. The advantages of the use of such a layer enable to be completely independant of the logging implementation. So it’s possible to easily change the logging implementation without modifying the existing code. You only have [...]
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