Use ThreadLocal to propagate identity information

Often in our web applications we need to pass the logged in user identity down to business and data layers. This is mostly required when the business processes need to behave differently for different users/roles.
Straight forward mechanism would be to pass user identity as a parameter for every business process method, but can quickly become [...]

Pieter’s day 3 at JavaOne 2009 summary

Thursday, June 04
Best Practices for Large-Scale Web Sites: Lessons from eBay 14:50 - 15:50
Room was absolutely loaded for this presentation, given by Randy Shoup, a distinguished engineer at eBay.

Pieter’s day 4 at JavaOne 2009 summary

Friday, June 05
Well guys, last day of JavaOne 2009 today. I first went to the morning general session, also known as the “toy show” and presented by James Gosling.It was a cool session, with all kinds of cool uses of the Java language. Some examples: gaming (RuneScape), SIM cards, robots, … But the coolest thing [...]

Javaone Toyshop session with James Gosling

The toyshop session on JavaOne is the session where we can see all the cool and geeky stuff made with Java in action. The presentation are a mix of presentations / goodies made by Sun engineers and the Duke Choice and winners.
Some of the winners were:
The guys from Terracotta. They provide an easy scalable platform [...]

Building next-gen web applications with the spring 3.0 stack

Today i joined a session about using the Spring 3.0 web stack.
Release of spring 3.0 is expected in late august. RC1 will be available next week.

Coit Tower

On 01/06/2009 we visited the Coit Tower in San Francisco.
Some historical info can be found on Wikipedia.

Golden Gate in the mist

On 01/06/2009 we rented a car an went to visit the Golden Gate bridge. As you can see  from the pictures, it was very cold and foggy that day. I sure hope we get another chance to visit the Golden Gate when it’s completely visible…

Some live pictures

Speed eating @ the Franciscan

Yesterday evening we went out for evening dinner to the Franciscan, a restaurant located at Fisherman’s Wharf, near Peer 39.
Now we all know that Americans still have a lot to learn from Europeans when it comes down to food and table etiquette, but what we saw yesterday was unbelievable.
When the guy from the restaurant was [...]

Pieter’s day 2 at JavaOne 2009 summary

Wednesday, June 03
Today was another great day @ JavaOne, let me give you a summary of the sessions I found the most interesting…
Getting Serious About Build Automation: Using Maven in the Real World 9:45 - 10:45
Maven 2 is becoming increasingly popular in larger organizations looking to standardize and industrialize their build processes as well as [...]