What is AOP? AOP is a way to modularize cross-cutting concerns. Ok, what does “modularize” really mean? Modularization is the encapsulation of a unit of functionality. It is exactly what “Class” is doing in OO world. How about “cross-cutting concerns”? Basically it means any functionalities that span multiple modules/ classes. They include Transaction Management, Security, [...]

Introduction Caching is a crucial performance tuning strategy, especially your system has high read to write ratio. You can perform caching strategy at different levels from client browser cache all the way to disk cache at server side. Lets take a brief look at where we can cache based on the invocation path for a [...]

Most companies I have worked for use Tomcat as Servlet Container. It is de facto standard just like how Apache been used as Web Server. However, most of us just drag our war file to the webapp folder and use Tomcat with all the settings as default out of the box. It works fine in [...]