Java web service frameworks — a brief survey
One of the current ongoing R&D projects at CATH is the development of a library of web services for both internal and external use. The first step in this process was the selection of a web service...
View ArticleIteratorReader — streaming character data from an iterator
Recently when plugging two components of a high-throughput web service together, I ran into a snag. One component (a data repository) exposes an Iterator for pulling XML-formatted records out of it one...
View ArticleSimple server status monitoring with PHP and Perl
Recently, one of our web servers fell victim to an apparent DoS attack, being hammered with hundreds of simultaneous dynamic page requests, far more than it’s specced to handle. To its credit, it...
View ArticleRetriableTask — a generic wrapper for retrying operations in Java
A couple of times recently I’ve needed to write methods that retry up to n times if an error occurs, and surprisingly, couldn’t find any standard patterns to accomplish this on the web. So I wrote my...
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