Review "Java Performance: The Definitive Guide" by Scott Oaks

I recently finished the book Java Performance: The Definitive Guide* by Scott Oaks and I really liked it!

The book is very well written and Scott gives a lot of in-depth explanations about complex topics like JIT compilation, garbage collector algorithms and thread synchronization. I learned a lot about different ways to analyze the performance of an application and how to optimize it. And I am sure that this book will be very useful when I have to analyze the next performance issue.
I recommend it to every experienced Java developer who likes to learn more about performance optimization.

But lets get into more details ...

Java Magazin published my first article

Hey,

I just wanted to tell all german readers, that the Java Magazin published my first article in the current issue 1.15. It's called "Aus A mach B - Konvertierung mithilfe von JPA Attribute Converter" and describes (guess what) the usage of the new JPA 2.1 Attribute Converter.



You don't speak german and like to learn more about Attribute Converter? No problem, I also wrote several blog posts about it:

• JPA 2.1 - How to implement a Type Converter
• JPA 2.1 Type Converter - The better way to persist enums
• How to use a JPA Type Converter to encrypt your data

Java Weekly 48: Modern APIs, Entity Graph, agile specs and more...

The Java world is evolving at a rapid pace and it can be challenging to keep track of it. Fortunately lots of great resources are created every week, explaining new features or looking at existing stuff from a different angle.

I am using the Java Weekly series to collect the most interesting links I found during the last week and present them to you all in one place. I hope you find it useful and that it makes it easier for you to keep up-to-date. If you like to suggest a resource or something I can improve on, please leave me a comment.

Java Weekly 47: Java 9, tweet index, compress and authenticate REST service and more...

The Java world is evolving at a rapid pace and it can be challenging to keep track of it. Fortunately lots of great resources are created every week, explaining new features or looking at existing stuff from a different angle.

I am using the Java Weekly series to collect the most interesting links I found during the last week and present them to you all in one place. I hope you find it useful and that it makes it easier for you to keep up-to-date. If you like to suggest a resource or something I can improve on, please leave me a comment.

Java Weekly 46: Joda-Time to Java8, new Apache Tamaya, Java internals and more...

The Java world is evolving at a rapid pace and it can be challenging to keep track of it. Fortunately lots of great resources are created every week, explaining new features or looking at existing stuff from a different angle.

I am using the Java Weekly series to collect the most interesting links I found during the last week and present them to you all in one place. I hope you find it useful and that it makes it easier for you to keep up-to-date. If you like to suggest a resource or something I can improve on, please leave me a comment.

No Java Weekly this week

Hey everyone,

I went to the GeeCon conference last week and had no time to read articles for the Java Weekly. So I have to skip it for this week.

Bye,
Thorben

Java Weekly #16: Named Parameters, Java Batch, JavaOne Recordings and more...

The Java world is evolving at a rapid pace and it can be challenging to keep track of it. Fortunately lots of great resources are created every week, explaining new features or looking at existing stuff from a different angle.

I am using the Java Weekly series to collect the most interesting links I found during the last week and present them to you all in one place. I hope you find it useful and that it makes it easier for you to keep up-to-date. If you like to suggest a resource or something I can improve on, please leave me a comment.