Nicholas Hagen

One of the more common tasks in using a templating language like Grails is modular-based development. On a given page, you may have a common module used by several pages. For example, you may want a shopping cart on every page or have a set of social network widgets on various pages. Rather than duplicating [...]

In the last few years, annotation-driven libraries have been on the rise in new and even existing libraries. Rather than use configuration files such as XML or properties, libraries now make use of annotations in JDK 5 to mix the configuration directly inline with the code. This simplifies the configuration by not having to maintain [...]

So I was looking at design patterns and read across the factory pattern and the pooling pattern. I know what both of those do independently but never considered them together and as a result, my mind started racing with ideas. One of the many problems with applications in terms of performance is garbage collection. Pooling [...]