Java tips for coders, by coders

Ahh, the joys of JIRA. It’s hard to argue that JIRA is not the best bug management system out there when you see that they support a host of external access protocols. SOAP is (understandably) the preferred method of access and there is a nice example of its use on the Atlassian wiki. I wanted [...]

I’ve started expermenting with griffon again and I learnt a cool new trick today. Pre-0.9.2 all controller actions were called within the UI thread. This meant that if you needed to do anything long-running you’d need to move it to a separate thread or your application would become unresponsive (atleast in the eyes of the [...]