Metrics by yammer provides runtime metrics and statistics for all kind of apps you can imagine. A lot of stuff is directly useable out of the box, for example measuring…

some time ago Aljona showed how to monitor and manage your java application with jmx I’m going to show, how you can make use of JMX from the viewpoint of…

Modern web applications often consist of quite some configuration files that should at least be tested for validity. Think of Spring controller configurations, web application descriptors and the like that…

At Synyx we’re currently taking care of a rather large legacy project for one of our customers in the course of our Code Clinic services. The project comprises several components…

Ever wondered why Tomcat reloads the context when editing web.xml? This is a default configuration that can also be adjusted to your needs. The file conf/context.xml is the default context…

When developing web apps with Maven the de facto standard for running the app is to use the excellent Maven Jetty Plugin which runs the project in an embedded Jetty…