Hibernate is great. However, I don’t see it fits all the data access requirements. At its core, it is an ORM tool that helps you to map your object model to relational model. If you have full control of your relational model and perform lots of CRUD operations, it is certainly a great tool for [...]

Blocking Queue Behavior Quite often in threaded applications we have a producer-consumer situation where some threads want to add jobs onto a queue, and some other worker threads want to remove jobs from the queue and then execute them. It is quite useful in such circumstances to write a queue which blocks on pop when [...]