I received a dump of Java codebase which had multiple modules and I needed to analyse it’s structure. The following tool did quite a good job:
https://github.com/gdela/socomo
Basically the idea is to run it inside a Java project using a maven command and it creates HTML file which denotes the high level structure of the code.
Note: Stan4J is also a very good tool which does similar job but allows deeper analysis (upto 500 classes only)
One of my Spring-Boot projects was battling with overloaded CPU and unresponsive / slow server response at times when there is more traffic. I have explored and implemented caching but my problem was with excessive connections coming in and server itself becoming slow. I could have setup multiple instances and do some kind of auto-scaling but given limited budget and hardware I wanted to put in some hard limits on my Spring-Boot app as to how much traffic it can take in and when it can give up gracefully (there is no shame in rejecting traffic with HTTP status 503 if the server infrastructure is overloaded).
I found a blog post entry from Netflix on how to tune Apache Tomcat and another article on how to tune Rest Controller code itself to implement a rudimentary Rate Limiter. I was glad to find the RateLimiter implementation in Goggle Guava library which I ultimately ended up using (for now). However I think the annotation driven RateLimiter is also a very good solution which is certainly very powerful and I will take it out for a spin sometime in near future.
The basic lesson learnt from this exercise:
– Tweak Tomcat and keep a watch on the acceptCount parameter which technically puts in a limit of how much traffic reaches your Rest controller.
– Use a RateLimiter on your hot APIs (which have higher latency) and don’t let your application get abused beyond a limit.
– Scale horizontally if the limits set above result in lot of traffic getting rejected.
I had a old project which was running on JDK 8 and Spring Boot 1.5.x which I just upgraded to JDK 11 and Spring Boot 2.2.5. I faced some hiccups in the process but it is finally done and the application is up and running. I will be documenting some of the issues faced in this process.
Spring Data
All instances of findOne() had to be replaced with findByID() which returns Optional<Entity> reference. I ended up removing lots of null checks by leveraging the Optional features of “orElse”, “orThrow” and “ifPresent” methods provided by Optional interface. It definitely is a better way to handle null.
JAXB runtime error
After migration the application booted up fine but on doing some specific operation I observed this error on console
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter
It seems this class has been moved out of the core library in JDK. This error kind of stumped me as some posts on internet suggested adding the following entry in pom.xml
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
<version>2.3.1</version>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
However this didn’t help and I ended up using the following library to finally get rid of this issue:
<dependency>
<groupId>jakarta.xml.bind</groupId>
<artifactId>jakarta.xml.bind-api</artifactId>
</dependency>
Apache POI / Tika Library
This is another runtime issue faced during this application operation.
WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
WARNING: Illegal reflective access by org.apache.poi.openxml4j.util.ZipSecureFile$1 (file:/Users/562320/.m2/repository/org/apache/tika/tika-app/1.15/tika-app-1.15.jar) to field java.io.FilterInputStream.in
WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of org.apache.poi.openxml4j.util.ZipSecureFile$1
WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal reflective access operations
WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release
Jun 29, 2020 3:14:17 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve invoke
SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet [dispatcherServlet] in context with path [] threw exception [Request processing failed; nested exception is org.apache.poi.openxml4j.exceptions.OpenXML4JRuntimeException: Fail to save: an error occurs while saving the package : class org.apache.poi.openxml4j.util.ZipSecureFile$ThresholdInputStream cannot be cast to class java.util.zip.ZipFile$ZipFileInputStream (org.apache.poi.openxml4j.util.ZipSecureFile$ThresholdInputStream is in unnamed module of loader 'app'; java.util.zip.ZipFile$ZipFileInputStream is in module java.base of loader 'bootstrap')] with root cause
java.lang.ClassCastException: class org.apache.poi.openxml4j.util.ZipSecureFile$ThresholdInputStream cannot be cast to class java.util.zip.ZipFile$ZipFileInputStream (org.apache.poi.openxml4j.util.ZipSecureFile$ThresholdInputStream is in unnamed module of loader 'app'; java.util.zip.ZipFile$ZipFileInputStream is in module java.base of loader 'bootstrap')
at java.base/java.util.zip.ZipFile$ZipFileInflaterInputStream.available(ZipFile.java:480)
This issue got resolved after upgrading the Apache Tika, Apache POI to latest version. I also had to upgrade the apache-commons-lang package to apache-commons-lang3 package.
Th e”\r” character basically reverts the current cursor back to the 1st column in the current line. This concept should basically work on Mac, Linux and Windows. So to test it I wrote a quick hack and it worked properly:
public class ProgressBar {
public static void main(String[] args) {
int size = 10;
for (int i=1; i<size; i++) {
try {
Thread.sleep(500);
System.out.print("|" + "=".repeat(i) + ">" + " ".repeat(size-i) + "|\r");
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
System.out.print("|" + "=".repeat(size) + "|\r");
}
}
// Initial Output
// |=> |
// Final Output
// |==========|
I got the desired output and a humble do nothing progress bar did come up on terminal. To further this idea I did some internet search and I ended up finding this repo on GitHub. It basically allows you to implement beautiful progress bars for terminal based Java application. The basic concept is the same but it provides much more functionality.
For a new project I was trying to setup a config server to connect my services together. Although the spring-cloud-config server works fine, I am not able to make my service talk to the config-server which is really strange as I am fairly well versed with Spring Cloud and usually setting up a dev environment is a no-brainer.
I have described my issue in stackoverflow to get help and I am debugging in parallel as well.
When building a new Java project I ended up facing some certificate error. I resolved it by using this article which is quite well written.
Read through a DZone article which talks about a JDK released by Amazon called Amazon Corretto. This is a good news for Java community. It is a production ready JDK backed by Amazon and has been tested heavily by them. This is really an exciting development.
I needed to design a UI using JavaFX. I use SceneBuilder for building my UI. I found this invaluable link for using AnchorPanes concept to make it work inside TabPanels. It really cleared my concepts in a minute and I had a working tab based UI shortly.
I found a good piece of code which can be used to extract multiple email from a String. A modified version of the code is listed below:
public static String readContactEmailFromString(String resumeText) {
final String RE_MAIL = "([\\w\\-]([\\.\\w])+[\\w]+@([\\w\\-]+\\.)+[A-Za-z]{2,4})";
Pattern p = Pattern.compile(RE_MAIL);
Matcher m = p.matcher(resumeText);
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
while(m.find()) {
if (sb.toString().contains(m.group(1))) continue;
if (sb.toString().isEmpty()) {
sb.append(m.group(1));
} else {
sb.append("; " + m.group(1));
}
}
return sb.toString();
}
We can now do Spring certification without going for Pivotal training. It was long due and here it is finally!
Can you take Spring certification without Pivotal Training Course?
5 Spring Framework Books for Java developers (Includes Spring Security and Spring Boot) – Best of lot
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