Efficient Singletons in legacy code

The app I’m maintaining is not Spring-enabled so I am faced with the possibility of writing code for singleton objects. To my mild surprise, I discovered that Java 5 has made singleton creation considerably less bug-prone. There’s also better practices for double-checked locking, if your code (attempts to) swing that way.

Separating Unit tests from Acceptance tests in maven

Have been playing with Maven a lot in the last week and a half. One thing I liked about Ant was the control over whether various classes of test would run in which target.

Found a post by Abhi which demonstrates that a judicious use of profiles will accomplish this.

Maven: Not as terrible as it seems

I once read a quote about Maven, that

it makes the simple things effortless, and the difficult things impossible

After working with it full-time for, wow, has it been a year already? I still believe that statement is true for beginners. Eventually, though, you learn how to work with Maven rather than against it, but still get it to do what you want.