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Moving!

Sep 10, 2010 11:48 AM by David Lloyd

As of today, my blog is officially moving to a new home at in.relation.to.

Safely downgrading a write lock with ReadWriteLock

Feb 23, 2010 3:45 PM by David Lloyd

A simple pattern to downgrade a write lock to a read lock safely: ReadWriteLock rwl = getLock(); Lock lock = rwl.writeLock(); lock.lock(); try { ... Perform write operation ... // downgrade lock safely final Lock readLock =…

XNIO 2.0.2 Bugfix Release

Jan 25, 2010 3:21 PM by David Lloyd

A new release of XNIO is available which fixes several bugs. For more information about XNIO 2.0, see this previous post. Users of XNIO 2.0.0 and 2.0.1 are encouraged to update to 2.0.2 to take advantage of these bug fixes:[XNIO-82] - Remove jboss-…

JBoss Marshalling 1.2.0 Released, Website Upgraded

Jan 5, 2010 3:28 PM by David Lloyd

Some of you may have noticed that JBoss Marshalling 1.2.0.GA has been present in the maven repository for some time. Now that the website upgrade is complete, I'm happy to announce that it is now available from the downloads page as well. JBoss Mar…

JSR 294/277: Why don't we have standard Java modularity?

Dec 9, 2009 10:33 PM by David Lloyd

Why is it so difficult to write a modularity specification for Java? The requirements appear to be relatively simple:Provide an API whereby a user can load a module and link to it (in other words, get a classloader which can be used to load exported…

XNIO 2.0.1 Bugfix Release

Dec 4, 2009 1:44 PM by David Lloyd

I've uploaded a minor bugfix release for XNIO 2.0.0. It fixes a selector wakeup bug, as well as a minor API bug and a minor optimization for blocking I/O with the NIO-based provider.All users of 2.0.0 are encouraged to update to 2.0.1. The release …

XNIO 2.0.0 has landed

Nov 25, 2009 5:58 PM by David Lloyd

XNIO is a simplified low-level I/O layer which can be used anywhere you are using NIO today. It frees you from the hassle of dealing with Selectors and NIO's poor support for SSL, multicast sockets and non-socket I/O, while still maintaining all the …

XNIO 2.0.0.CR4 Released

Nov 2, 2009 3:30 PM by David Lloyd

XNIO 2.0 is getting very close to completion. The latest CR, 2.0.0.CR4, is now available from the downloads page.The main change since CR3 is the introduction of a new "Result" interface which acts as feed-in to an IoFuture. This makes it easy for …

New XNIO, JBoss Marshalling, and More...

Sep 22, 2009 12:44 PM by David Lloyd

Since my last post several months ago, I've been quite busy with a number of project releases.JBoss Marshalling version 1.2.0.CR3 - download here, JIRA here. Includes a much more efficient River protocol implementation, and the Java-compatible Seria…

Class-local data

Feb 25, 2009 6:48 PM by David Lloyd

Today I ran across a problem that I've hit frequently in the past, this time while designing an extension to JBoss Marshalling which allows users to annotate classes which are to be specially externalized. The problem is that one wants to "remember"…

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