Java Evangelist John Yeary

Cobertura Coverage in NetBeans 7.4 I gave a presentation on unit testing a few months ago at Greenville Java Users Group (GreenJUG) abo...

Introduction I have been trying to come up with a way to highlight these fascinating classes in a way that demonstrates their power and us...

I am trying to put a bunch of my code on my Google Drive to back it up. I have had a couple of bad experiences lately around failed hardware...

I had a use case where I needed to use a PhaseListener programmatically. I had originally tried to use a faces-config.xml to add the lis...

One of the less discussed aspects of JAX-RS based on the HTTP 1.1 specification is client negotiation. We often write our applications from ...

A few years ago I posted an article on how to execute OS level system calls using the Runtime class. When I wrote that article I was using ...

I was working on some code in the last few days where I came across a protected Map map instance variable. I examined the code and javadocs...

I have been working on designing a replacement architecture for an enterprise application at work. As a result, I have been doing a lot o...

Image via Wikipedia I was working on creating an application to make calls to a MongoDB database. I was having some difficulties getting th...

Image by quasarkitten via Flickr The  basics for creating a Maven archetype can be found in the Maven - Guide to Creating Archetypes . The ...

Image via Wikipedia I was working on an issue with a customer about supported locales.  The JDK comes in two varieties: one is for only west...

Image via CrunchBase I am working on publishing the various methods for deploying JSF on Google App Engine . This example is deployed using ...

Image via Wikipedia I was looking for an up-to-date example of how to use the Apache Maven AntRun plugin version 1.6. The examples that I fo...

A friend of mine from the JUG community wrote a really neat article which explains (in depth I might add) on how to contribute to the Maven ...

This is an Introduction to Apache Maven presentation that I gave at the Greenville Java Users Group on the 11th of February. It covers th...

The other night at the Greenville Java Users Group meeting I asked the members of the JUG to join an open source project and make a differen...