Dedicated to Java tech sharing and dissecting top open-source projects. Topics include Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes and more. Author’s GitHub project “mall” has 50K+ stars.
This article explains the motivation behind Java generics, their benefits such as compile‑time type checking and reduced casting, and provides concrete examples including generic classes, interfaces, collections, inheritance, custom generic methods, and common pitfalls, illustrated with code snippets and diagrams.
The article examines a production OutOfMemoryError caused by MyBatis SQL construction, explains heap and metaspace exhaustion, analyzes MyBatis source code, reproduces the issue with JVM settings, and offers practical recommendations to prevent similar memory failures.
This article walks through converting a SpringBoot Maven project (mall‑tiny) to Gradle, explains Gradle’s key features and plugins, shows step‑by‑step setup, demonstrates dependency migration, compares build times with Maven, and provides a complete Gradle build script with reference links.
A performance comparison of SpringBoot 4.0 with virtual threads shows Tomcat achieving up to fifteen times higher QPS than Jetty, while startup times remain similar, and provides step‑by‑step instructions for building native Docker images and switching containers.
This article compares PostgreSQL and MySQL, highlighting PostgreSQL's richer data types, native sequences, extensible ecosystem, advanced monitoring, robust replication, open licensing, and MVCC implementation, while also acknowledging MySQL's strengths in simplicity and read‑heavy web workloads.
Maven 4 introduces a revamped POM model, native flattening, explicit artifact types, subproject support, a tree‑based lifecycle for parallel builds, and richer configuration options, making it a timely upgrade for modern Java development pipelines.
The article critically examines the promise of a universal Java data‑access API like dbVisitor, contrasts it with specialized ORM solutions such as Jimmer, and highlights the lightweight JdbcClient approach, while considering the impact of AI‑generated SQL on traditional ORM relevance.
This guide explains Java's Service Provider Interface (SPI) mechanism, compares it with APIs, and walks through creating a multi‑module Maven project that defines SPI interfaces, implements plugins, loads external JARs with a custom class loader, and integrates the plugins into a Spring Boot application for dynamic authentication.
This guide presents a curated list of 30 essential IntelliJ IDEA plugins, covering installation tips, productivity boosters, code quality tools, UI enhancements, and handy shortcuts, each illustrated with screenshots and brief usage notes to help Java developers work more efficiently.
This guide explains how to build a complete multi‑dimensional network bandwidth throttling solution in Spring Boot 3 using a custom token‑bucket algorithm, HandlerInterceptor, HttpServletResponseWrapper, and RateLimitedOutputStream to precisely control download, video streaming, and API traffic.
