DraK's Klog

How to permanently mark a binary for processor affinity:
Permanent processor affinity

How to launch a program with a given affinity using the windows start command:
CPU Affinity Made Easy

The WinAPI call used to dynamically change a process affinity:
SetProcessAffinityMask

This article explains how to share a single instance of a spring context between several web applications.

Very usefull.

Very handy.

I didn't even know JBoss had a compensation framework ... very promising.

Macker is a build-time architectural rule checking utility for Java developers. It's meant to model the architectural ideals programmers always dream up for their projects, and then break -- it helps keep code clean and consistent. You can tailor a rules file to suit a specific project's structure, or write some general "good practice" rules for your code. Macker doesn't try to shove anybody else's rules down your throat; it's flexible, and writing a rules file is part of the development process for each unique project.

JAXWS permet aussi de consommer et de fournir des web services de type REST. Ces slides expliquent très clairement comment faire l'un et l'autre.

Like most things relating to Enterprise Architecture, the answer to the question of how to design a Service in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is "it depends".

This old article from dW gives light over the different WSDL styles.

Bill Burke proposes a solution based on JMS Dead Letter Queues to transition to failure state upon failure in a jBPM action.

The Maven 2 - Flex 2 plugin is a Maven 2 plugin designed to enable continuous integration for Adobe Flex 2 libraries and applications, and to benefit of the power of Apache Maven.