Creating installer using IzPack and Maven

I recently created a wordpress installer using IzPack and uploaded the source code on Google Code. It will 1.) Download wordpress source code, 2.)...

Playing with Apache Derby.

Apache Derby has two modes, Embedded Derby and Derby Network Server.’ Lets look at some code using both these modes. Let’s work on creating...

Playing with Jaas and Apache.

If you havent read my blog post “Playing with JAAS” i wouldd suggest you read that before reading this one. Here is a quick...

Why should hashtable size be prime number?

Lets say our hashtable size is 100 (which is NOT a prime number). Say we wish to hash some value x and its multiples...

Playing with JAAS

Just playing with JAAS the other day. Basically its a general set of interfaces and classes (framework) provided by Java to perform authorization and...

Parametrize your xml documents using XSLT and java

Recently, i used XSLT to parametrize an XML document. XSLT transformations are used to transform a Source document to a Destination document using a...

In log4j, output INFO logs of classes only from your package.

Been awhile since I’ve been using log4j for most of my projects. I wanted to output INFO statements only from my package and block log statements...

NachOS academic projects

We had the option of implementing 1.) Multi programming, 2.) Virtual Memory Management or 3.) File System in Not Another Completely Heuristic Operating System, or Nachos. I remember...

Statement vs. Prepared Statement (when using oracle)?

When do we use Statement vs. Prepared Statement? In my opinion unless you are executing DDL statements (which don’t allow variable binding) you are better...

Oracle password expired

Oracle passwords can expire and if your application uses any of those users it could suddenly stop working. You can check status of your...