Maven is a build and project management tool for java based application development. In previous article(“Apache Maven for Beginners“), we talked about installing and configuring maven on windows operating system. In this article, we shall see how to create a simple Maven project, check the created directories and build the project. If you have any …
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Apache ANT Listeners and Loggers
This article explains in brief about two features of ANT which are used to monitor the build process: Listeners and Loggers. In the previous articles on ANT we saw that ANT has logging feature(logging using external log4j). If the logger is not specified then ANT uses the DefaultLogger. Along with logger, Ant also has a …
Tutorial of java programming with Apache Ant
This article guides you through java programming with Apache Ant with the steps listed as below. The following are the steps used in the articles to explain the Ant script creation. If you have any questions, please write it in the comments section. If you are interested in receiving the future articles on Java, please …
Execute batch file or shell script using Ant
This article discusses on how to execute a batch file or shell script using Ant.The article details about using exec command with an example code.We will write an Ant build script, which identifies the current operating system(OS) and based on the OS detected either a batch file or a shell script is executed.We assume that …
Reading file asynchronously in Java
We all are familiar with reading/writing file in a synchronous way. In Java 7 a new API was added to read/write the contents of the file asynchronously. The API is AsynchronousFileChannel. also read: Java 7.0 Tutorials New Features in Java 7.0 G1 Garbage Collector in Java 7.0 In this example lets look at how to …
How to use ByteBuffer in Java?
ByteBuffer API has been in Java since 1.4. The name itself suggests that these contain bytes of data. The data to be stored in the buffer can be Integer (int, long), Characters (char), Floating value (double), all these are converted into bytes before being stored in the buffer array. ByteBuffer can be of two types- …
Creating JSON using Groovy
I wrote previously about parsing JSON in Groovy. In this article I show a simple example of creating JSON using Groovy. I had to learn about creating JSON using Groovy as I would be using JSON as the response format in the REST API which might be developed sometime in future. also read: Groovy Tutorials …
Introduction to Java Agents
In this article we will discuss about Java Agents. Java Agents are software components that provide instrumentation capabilities to an application. In the context of agents, instrumentation provides the capability of re-defining the content of class that is loaded at run-time. We will discuss this in more detail in the further sections. Download Source Code: …

