Showing posts with label open source. Show all posts
Showing posts with label open source. Show all posts
Sunday, June 21, 2020

A History of Java Logging Frameworks, or, Why Commons-Logging is Still So Common

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In the beginning there was System.out.println() . Or, for those of us who were purists (or wanted our output immediately), System.err.print...
Monday, January 6, 2020

The Future of Open Source

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The world of open source software seems to be going through a period of soul-searching. On the one hand, individual maintainers have retrac...
Thursday, December 27, 2018

log4j-aws-appenders now supports Logback

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I started my Log4J appenders project because I wasn't happy with how the AWS CloudWatch agent broke apart logfiles. It seemed, as I sa...
Monday, July 9, 2012

Introducing Pathfinder

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I've been on a new assignment for the last couple of months, located in Center City Philadelphia. On the one hand, the commute is great...
Monday, August 9, 2010

Ant, Taskdef, and running out of PermGen

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Although I've switched to Maven for building Java projects (convention over configuration ftw), I still keep Ant in my toolbox. It ex...
Thursday, December 3, 2009

Why Write Open Source Libraries

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I just created my third open-source project on SourceForge, S34J . It's a set of a half-dozen objects that encapsulate the calls for Am...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Building a Wishlist Service: External Libraries

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One of the great things about developing Java applications is the wealth of open-source libraries available. The Jakarta Commons libraries ...