JarInspector on Mac OS X

There is a tiny little utility that let’s you inspect JAR/WAR/EAR files on the Mac OS platform. The software is available here. Install it. To open a JAR, simply right click and chose JarInspector as the application. I personally did not set JarInspector as my default .jar application to let the default JAR launcher … [...]

Top 5 reasons why Out Of Office messages are wrong

I have always been annoyed quite a bit by automatic Out of Office messages. This summer was no exception. So here are my top reasons for not doing it. Nobody cares about your trip is Egypt really! If I am sending you an email, I am not on vacations. Do you really want … [...]

Hibernate Search in Action: all chapters written

That’s now official, I handed over the last chapter to the publisher yesterday. All chapters will be available to the early access program in the next few days. The journey is not finished yet. A lot of reviewing and correction are at sight. If you have feedback, now is the time :) The last last … [...]

Remotely send and consume messages with JMS in JBoss AS 5.0

This tutorial will show you how to create a queue in JBoss AS 5 (which uses JBoss Messaging 1.4.1), send a message to a remote queue and listen to the queue using a Message Driven Bean.I have been playing with JMS queues and MDBs in JBoss AS 5 today to complete the clustering chapter … [...]