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Metro up Java

spgennard — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:54:54 +0000

Microsoft’s Metro environment is a bit of a closed environment for the Open Source language vendor, so although you can code Metro applications in C/C++, C#, HTML/JavaScript/CSS on both Intel and ARM chipsets the choice of other languages are non-existent. …

Using sun.jvmstat.monitor to see active Java processes

spgennard — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:56:38 +0000

Monitor’ing Java processes can be achieved using the jvmstat monitor classes provided in the JVM. The documentation is a bit sketchy but with a little experimenting it can be done. Below is a little example that shows you how to …

Java process id via java.lang.management

spgennard — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:53:13 +0000

While working on a project recently I need to find out the current process of the active running Java process (for tracing/auditing), however I never found a 100% perfect solution but did come across an acceptable solution to use the …

Fiddling with the JVM

spgennard — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:10:49 +0000

Java is a very safe language if used in a normal way, however just like the CLR it can be used in an unsafe manor. The main reason for using Java in a unsafe manor is performance, some unsafe operations …

Object COBOL/Java default exception handler

spgennard — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:16:54 +0000

While working on some support recently for our compiler (Micro Focus COBOL compiler that is), I became annoyed with the lack of a reasonable error messages/stack trace output from our Java/COBOL Object support. I have no idea why our default …