Chronicles of a Wandering Mind

Interesting links for April 8th through April 14th:

• Exporting POJO via JMX and Groovy – good article on how to use groovy and jmxbuilder to expose objects for monitoring via JMX
• Practically Groovy: Reaching for each – great article on .each method provided in groovy and more!
• 4 Easy Ways to do Java Garbage Collection Tuning – The number of flags that someone can change on the Sun Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is astounding. Most of them are garbage collection (GC)-related and have many dependencies, not only on the system you are using but also to each other. Tuning GC flags seems like it should be difficult and error-prone, but following a few easy steps can help improve application performance in only a few minutes